The journey of life: Fantastic or frustrating!
Shah Hudaif
“He is a manager of an International company and I’m still wandering from office to office in search of employement, even though we graduated together from the same college. He is established in his life even though I always used to secure grades much better than him but still struggling for my career.
He owns a magnificent bungalow but I can still not afford to buy a flat. He’s married at the age of 21, but oh! I’m still single at 34.He is fathering three kids but I’m 10 years married still without a child. He is all set in his life even though I got grades much better than him but still struggling for my career. He travels the world and I never have been abroad. Oh! how sad for me! How ill-lucked am I!”
Job titles, income, grades, house and life styles and infinite number of categories in which we compare ourselves with other people also prove to be heart aching. We should always remember that comparison kills our joy. So it’s better to be thankful and contented with what we have been bestowed with rather than peeping in the lives of our fellow mates, family members or relatives which, in many cases leads to restlessness, stress, anxiety and development of jealously, one of the greatest disease of hearts.
Everyone is running their own race on their own time. The fact that our path is different from others doesn’t give us any right to be mean or violent to ourselves for no reason. In this crowd and kind of a concept about competition which we’ve created regarding life, we should be our own cheer leaders.
It’s okay to get married at 34, entirely fine to become a father in your forties. It isn’t sad at all to have a well settled life even though you’re about to enter your sixties. This is life and what you’ll receive will surely come to you on perfectly fixed time. Just worrying and killing your internal peace is of no use at all.
The biggest fear which most of us have is what the outside world will think! We care about opinion of others in verge of which we destroy our peace of mind and bliss of life. But we should master the art of living happily even after someone makes us feel embarrassed by pointing out that you should’ve married/got employment/become a father etc.
It’s really a fantastic feeling to shut down the opinion of outside world and to fully focus on our own life, on our family, on tiny moments full of joy and above all on the things which we can control because once we start focussing on the things beyond our control, it leads to nothing but a perfect recipe of frustrated life.
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