A Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience

One thing I've learned over the last few decades is that life is tough mostly because it has to be. The challenges we face in life are necessary to help us become like our Heavenly Father, and our mortal lives are necessary to make those challenges possible. We are currently having experiences that we could not possibly have had before we got bodies, and they're experiences we also won't be able to have once our bodies are resurrected. This brief period of mortality is the only chance we will ever get to have these kinds of experiences. We won't experience suffering like this in heaven, and before we were born, we had no idea what suffering really was. If we don't experience a lifetime supply of hardship during our mortal lives, we never will. In the eternal perspective, mortal life is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so we should try to cherish all of the ups and downs of life, if only for the novelty of them. We've never experienced anything like this before, and we'll never experience anything just like this again. Life is a thrill ride you can only ride once. Sure, there are plenty of unpleasant parts about it, but we need to savor those moments while we can because they won't last forever, and, for better or for worse, we will never experience mortality first-hand ever again. So learn as much as you can from this life and try to relish it, even if it's not very enjoyable, because as many youngsters on the internet have said, You Only Live Once. Enjoy it while it lasts.