Life is like a storm in a teacup.

In life we are presented many different challenges - some relatively easy and some hard. It isn't the challenge itself that makes or breaks us, it is the way in which we deal with the problems thrown at us. Most of the time when we are presented with something that we need to overcome we struggle to see a way past it, I know that I do. And so, when looking back in hindsight it is easy to say what we "could have" or "should have" done, yet in the moment we are consumed by emotion. I have therefore come to understand the analogy of why life is like a storm in a teacup.
When racked with pain and hurt it is easy to see past the good things in life, the simple things that day to day make us feel happy and at peace with the world. To us, the pain felt deep within our inner being is the most important thing and it is too easy to become engrossed with this and thus not see a way out. However, in the analogy humans become the tea cups, the emotion the tea and our mind the spoon. We have a choice, we can sit there and continue to stir in our troubles and end up cold and alone, or, we can see that we're only a small part of the world. For there are many different teacups in the world - big, small, different colours, chipped or utterly broken and smashed - we are not the problem and our problems are not the end. In the grand scheme of things, we are merely china, the tea that fills us is not our choice - some like it sweet and some not so much. We have only one choice and that is whether we choose to crack under the strain, or if we keep going - because who knows, the next person to drink from us may like their tea much sweeter than the last.