BY SIKIN TANDAK

IN EVERYDAY LIFE, there is a good side to every situation. Life is not all that is good or bad. Life has two sides of the coin. You cannot have the success you seek in your lifetime without experiencing some failures and difficulties.

Life is all about the journey of pilgrimage through the green pastures enjoying the beauty of it and getting out of the track that would lead you to experience the dusty, highway full of potholes.

Any experience in your lifetime can be transformed into something of value and glory. Everything depends on the way you look at things. As Saint Paul says, “When you are weak then you know that you are strong.”

Coming to realise and knowing the weak side of your life would lead you to be strong and courageous.

Your obstacles and defeat in your life span are really stepping-stones to victory if you remain determined and focus your life. Leave the bad side behind and journey with cherished memories.

In all your adversaries lie the seeds of equivalent advantage and so as in every defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the next time. To speak of mountains is to speak of valleys and plateaus.

Always foresee your problems as opportunities to endeavour. When it is dark enough you can see the stars shining in the sky so follow them, so they can lead you into the glorious land like the three kings who pay homage and tribute to the Saviour.

Sikin Thomas Tandak (42) was born on the Pina Catholic Mission at Wabag in the Enga Province. He currently lives on Santo Island in Vanuatu where he works for a World Health Organisation on an e-learning health network project implemented in partnership with the Vanuatu government