Have you ever been placed into, or put yourself into a situation where you have no clue how to get out of. I have a few times in my life. When all of your bad decisions creep up on you all at once, and you’re just one decision away from ending it all, trust me I know the feeling all too well!!
There’s nothing scarier to me than being forced into survival mode, the way the anxiety in me is step up, it does NOT feel good going through something like that. My parents did a good job raising me, I been sheltered from outside influences growing up which helped me not follow the wrong path in totality. I had everything I needed growing up and life was great, up until college. You know 18 you’re basically an adult, new territory. Growing up I turned to my elders a lot for advice because experience, but college was a different ball game. As a first generation college student I had no one to turn to for advice and throughout my whole college career it was complete survival mode.
When survival mode turns into faith
Graduating high school during the financial crisis was tough. Class of 2008/2009 for many of us being the first in our families to either graduate high school much, less attend college was put into a situation where we couldn’t find a job with out new found young adult status and maintain our college student lifestyle. But somehow at least for me I always had what I needed. Back then, I attended church but as a typical young person every Sunday I thought I could be doing something better. Not know that God had my back regardless, especially one time during my college career where I thought I would be kicked out of school. I’m not going to get into too many details but, I wasn’t putting in the work I needed to do to see results. I would just pray that good things would happen, but no. Plus other times in my career life, but that’s a story for another day.
Having faith requires putting in work, you have to prove yourself to God for him to see that you know your worth for him to bring you out of a situation. If you sit there with the woe is me mentality, nothing will ever change. Create baby steps/a plan to get to where you need to be. With you choosing to move forward will open so many doors. Especially now with many of us with no job/income coming in, we are being put into survival mode. Maybe this is the time for us to put faith in our own worth and capabilities. Survival mode teaches us that we have what it takes, one foot in front of the other until you get to where you need to be.
