Many times I find my self stuck in my head, beating myself up, worrying about my problems, about my past, about my present, and of course about my future. Without getting into the idea of "Live for today, worry not about the past or the future" I came across the following in the great book Growth Through Torah by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin.
On the 50th year, the yovail/Jubilee year, there isa mitzvah to blow the shofar. The reason for this is that on that year the servants were set free. When a master had a servant for a long period of time, it was difficult for him to lose the helping hand. The shofar was blown for the master to realize that he was not the only one freeing his servant. Rather, the same was happening to everyone else who had servants. That simple knowledge that others are also suffering in the same way makes it much easier to accept hardships.
There are many difficulties in life that people subjectively make worse for themselves because they feel that they are the only ones who are suffering. The more that we realize that each person has his own life-problems, the easier we will find it to cope in a positive way with our own. While not everyone will have the same or even similar problems as we do, everyone has hardships and tests. Thats life! By working on gaining a greater awareness of the suffering of other people we will be able to put our own suffering in a perspective that will decrease the pain.
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