These are excerpts from the author’s book “Deep,” which contains eight of his small books published in the form of Wisdom Literature covering different aspects of life: Facing troublemakers, dealing with pain, personal financial issues, gastronomy, reading, criticizing, inspiring, and feeling always good to go.

Series 8: Life Painkillers

This week: Whirlpool

Symptoms: Feeling that you are in a whirlpool you will not be able to get out of.

Diagnosis: Repetition of the same life’s problems after you think you passed them.

Painkiller:

• It will likely be strange and upsetting to sit for high school exams after graduating from college and practicing a working life for years. But if you find yourself forced to, it is best to do it confidently and enthusiastically. Resenting and complaining will not help you pass the test.

• Problems and difficulties do not repeat themselves in every detail. Seize the opportunity and savor the thrill of a special challenge by discovering the different details each time and trying to find innovative solutions that suit them.

• Recurring problems definitely make you feel monotonous and malaise, but see your accumulated experience in similar challenges as a great point of strength in dealing with these problems with greater confidence and optimism about your success.

• Life’s difficulties are not in the form of tests that you succeed in one of them and overcome to enter the next. Consider the overlap of problems, their repetition, and their rotation as opportunities for humility. And remember that no one in life is above any test, regardless of his or her stature.

Treatment:

• It doesn’t look like an endless loop, but life is actually an endless loop that you have to get adapted to.

• Your adaptation to the spiral of life is best achieved through your deep belief that this is the nature of existence. This does not mean that you stand submissively in front of any problem. But the issues that recur and the vicious circles of life are not problems as much as realistic and uninterrupted challenges that require a lot of patience, wisdom, and longanimity to deal with them.

• Although problems are not repeated with the same details, drawing inspiration from previous solutions to a similar problem is not without benefit. Make sure you evoke old solutions with an open sprit eager to resolve the problem, not only to clear your guilt and relax your conscience by just trying.

• Expand the scope of your activities on all levels. Relying on a routine does not spare you problems so much as it may help them to recur. Renewable activities refresh your life. Just make sure that you choose them carefully from among what suits you.

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Dahab’s books are available on Goodreads and Booktasters are promoting them. This is the link to a trailer on “Damn the Novel,” his first book translated into English.