Cicero's Experiences With Difficulty

Famous philosopher, Marcus Cicero, believes that, “The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.” Many people have different experiences with difficulty, and most admit that when they are faced with a difficulty in their life, they usually give up. Difficulty, depending on the matter, can make a person have different reactions but the most common is when their own problems are making them feel bad about themselves. Someone may be trying to fix an issue with their life but realize that the task at hand is going to be more complex than they originally thought so they start thinking that they are failures for not being able to better the situation. People may fall into depression because of this, and they may start to feel that they should just stop …show more content…
This may lead them to sit down and think for a while about different methods to approach the situation and look at it from a different view. A new solution may cause them to think of many other resolutions, maybe even some that are more simple and doable. Due to finding out more solutions for a great difficulty, someone will feel pride in themselves, and they will be extremely content with themselves for being able to get out of a messy situation. A way to think of it: a baker may be in their shop sitting down in their kitchen table, struggling to find a new recipe for their brownies, because the holidays are coming up and many customers are going to want their brownies. The baker will have been sitting there for hours mixing different ingredients and putting in different flavors in order to better their brownies. It may seem like a dead end to the baker, but in the end they are realized what ingredients were missing and which ones they needed to take out. Although the baker spent hours upon hours trying to think of something new, they finally did and now they feel proud of themselves because they know that not