My Insights in to Life
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Do not follow where life takes you, take life where you want to go.
A few words but not so easy metaphorically. For a long time, I worked as a slave in the hands of life. I acted based on situations as they came and took them up as my reality. Where I happened to be due to circumstantial turn of events, I believed was the path of my passion. Never did I get the time to probe in to myself and wanted to know the real me. While being materially well off is a bliss and defines a style of living, making everything accessible, the ability to earn enough to sustain in a moderately well off fashion while retaining the desire to live for thyself is a great boon. Half and sometimes more of our life goes in the conflict within our soul to decide what could make us happy. But, happiness is not inaccessible. It's the path to happiness that is stretched too long by us. If you can come back and justify to yourself at the end of the day that you were at your workplace the whole day because you love to work away from home, the surrounding perplexities which go hand in hand with the joy of working will fade in to oblivion the moment they emerge. If a particular event bothered you, the question you should ask yourself is: would you want the situation to arise without you being there? If the answer is no, then you know you have gained more than lost.
My life went through this conflict of emotions within myself for a long time. Ironically, that was a great phase of my personal life - when I met the love of my life, shared some of the most beautiful moments, got married to him, got my job, maintained an excellent relationship with friends and family. But not once did I stop to celebrate the numerous pleasurable moments I've had; rather I let my mind concentrate on my life's assumed reality. My mind became preoccupied with events that would not hold any significance in the larger tenure of my life. In other words, my mind was constricted by temporary space.
People say a good human being with a quality life and genuine intentions can make a difference at a larger scale. For a long time, success to me was social and financial upliftment. But before it was too late, I realized success need not be being above everyone else around. Success is rather a state of heart - a peace within, a desire that doesn't invite worries, a cause that might be inexhaustive in scale but brings in a sense of fulfilment with it.
We as humans take too long to realize for ourselves our own definition of these nouns and adjectives. I have also taken more than 2 decades to discover what is my ultimate goal from my brief stay in the world.
Do not follow where life takes you, take life where you want to go.
A few words but not so easy metaphorically. For a long time, I worked as a slave in the hands of life. I acted based on situations as they came and took them up as my reality. Where I happened to be due to circumstantial turn of events, I believed was the path of my passion. Never did I get the time to probe in to myself and wanted to know the real me. While being materially well off is a bliss and defines a style of living, making everything accessible, the ability to earn enough to sustain in a moderately well off fashion while retaining the desire to live for thyself is a great boon. Half and sometimes more of our life goes in the conflict within our soul to decide what could make us happy. But, happiness is not inaccessible. It's the path to happiness that is stretched too long by us. If you can come back and justify to yourself at the end of the day that you were at your workplace the whole day because you love to work away from home, the surrounding perplexities which go hand in hand with the joy of working will fade in to oblivion the moment they emerge. If a particular event bothered you, the question you should ask yourself is: would you want the situation to arise without you being there? If the answer is no, then you know you have gained more than lost.
My life went through this conflict of emotions within myself for a long time. Ironically, that was a great phase of my personal life - when I met the love of my life, shared some of the most beautiful moments, got married to him, got my job, maintained an excellent relationship with friends and family. But not once did I stop to celebrate the numerous pleasurable moments I've had; rather I let my mind concentrate on my life's assumed reality. My mind became preoccupied with events that would not hold any significance in the larger tenure of my life. In other words, my mind was constricted by temporary space.
People say a good human being with a quality life and genuine intentions can make a difference at a larger scale. For a long time, success to me was social and financial upliftment. But before it was too late, I realized success need not be being above everyone else around. Success is rather a state of heart - a peace within, a desire that doesn't invite worries, a cause that might be inexhaustive in scale but brings in a sense of fulfilment with it.
We as humans take too long to realize for ourselves our own definition of these nouns and adjectives. I have also taken more than 2 decades to discover what is my ultimate goal from my brief stay in the world.
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