The Point of ‘These Difficult Times’

The point of this website is to tell you this: Difficulties in life are actually opportunities for a tremendous amount of meaning and growth, so they should not always be avoided but, oftentimes, revered.

This basic principle is one of those fundamental paradoxes in life which upon you besets the puzzle of finding out which difficulties help make you grow, and which ones help make you grow insane.

When you live your life with this reversal in your mind, you are simply and plainly forced to acquire a new attitude toward the many difficulties that burden you. Why? Because you must re-interpret the adversities in your life into sources of not meaningless misery, but satisfying growth.

About Rob Gilpatric

I am a writer and philosopher who works at a Macintosh computer store and repair shop called Tekserve on 23rd street in Manhattan, where I have the difficult, but rewarding, job of selling video post-production equipment to people making documentaries, TV shows, and movies, and where my philosophical temperament has garnered me a small reputation.

I was born and raised in New York City but have lived in the darkest depths of deciduous New Jersey and the brightest, rocky nooks of Colorado. After graduating from the University of Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in the Humanities and a minor in Creative Writing, I have written, and am writing, several books. I live in a quiet neighborhood in Brooklyn with my wife, Kelly, who for over ten years has been a rock of Gibraltar in my life.

Get in touch with me here.

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