How to turn your setback into a comeback

To turn a setback into a comeback, you need to re-energise yourself (Photo: iStock)

A setback is something that happens that delays or prevents a process from continuing or stops progress. A comeback is a return to an earlier or better and more favourable position or condition. One can experience different setbacks - financial, relationships, job and career, personal, emotional or spiritual. Setbacks can drain you emotionally until you run out of energy and reserves and you start wondering what to do next.

The world faced a serious and unprecedented setback with the COVID-19 pandemic, which altered daily lives in ways no one had imagined. One of the effects of the pandemic was an economic slowdown and loss of livelihoods. People's lives have been disrupted; turned upside down and there is so much pain which has left many wondering, "Where is God in this nightmare unfolding before us?"