Marcus Cicero's Difficulty: An Analysis

The 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 trying to fix the situation. On the other hand, many more people are motivated by the difficulty and …show more content…
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 only will their coworkers love it, but so will their customers. However, if they were to look at the situation and decide to give up because there simply is no solution, it will have a somewhat negative effect on said person’s life. The person may never learn how to view their problems in a different light. In fact, someone may benefit from a difficulty where they can build relationships from it. There will be many hardships in someone’s life that they cannot face alone, a majority of the time they will have to have a support system, whether it would be their family or their friends or maybe just someone from their school or workplace. A difficulty may arise and when someone tries to go to their friends, their friends might not exactly know how to help them get out of it which can lead the person to go out and ask others for help, even some people that they never would have thought they could befriend. For example, a student in school may be