Disclaimer: This post was originally posted in TechNews on Nov 23, 2014
Have you ever had that moment in your life when you felt like giving up but just couldn’t because you thought it’s not worth it? Or maybe one of those Kodak moments where something just clicks for you? Or something you’ve been struggling with for a long time and it was finally coming to an end but suddenly everything changed? Whatever the source of our insight, it’s these moments that bring us to a deeper understanding of our world. The better understanding we have of life, the more we live in the truth.
This Ramadan I started a 30 days lesson Facebook update challenge, where every day I shared something positive about my life and any positive lesson which I learnt in my life. Most of my friends loved it, so I thought to put them all together in shape of article and share it with rest of you.
I remember once there was a time in my life where I thought nothing good will ever happen in my life and that is when my mom told me that, “Nothing is impossible in this world. Faith is the only thing that matters and will make a difference, and trust me it did make a difference. There will come a time in your life when the most important decision of your life would be the hardest but, ‘You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts.’ When are going through such time than just stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are. It could be so much worse. No matter how long it takes, it will get better. Tough situations build strong people in the end. Look for something positive about this moment. Even if you have to look a little harder than usual, it still exists.
There is a very famous saying by Victor Hugo that, “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved,” and you will never understand this thing till you learn to love yourself. Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you. My favorite poet Rumi said in his one of verse that, "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it," and in his support he said, "Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth." If you will just read between the lines of his both verses trust me you will live a very peaceful life because life is all about love and the best thing one can do is to love himself. There is another good verse by Rumi which resonate with these verse, “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. All you have to do is look for that desire and fight for it. When you will start your journey there will be many people who will try to put you down but just remember one thing that, “When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home” – Rumi
There will come a time in your life when everything will go against you and you might stop believing in yourself but just remember what Alice Walker said, "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." Everyone is born with powers, you only have to polish them with time. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Speak up before it's too late. Let the world know about your power and show them that you are the one who will make his story a better one, in fact an inspirational one. As Aristotle said, “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, and determines your destiny.” So make your choices, put in your sincere efforts and keep your good intention high, nothing can then stop you from being successful. The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. Participate in life instead of just watching it pass you by.
Everyone likes to complains and I like that too but next time when you complain then just remember this saying by our prophet Muhammad (pbuh), “When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less.” Remember, social comparison is the thief of happiness. You could spend a lifetime worrying about what others have, but it wouldn’t get you anything. But also remember that this doesn’t mean that you have the complete right to make fun of other people. Saying someone is ugly doesn’t make you any prettier. So why hurt someone's feeling. Plus nothing is ugly in this world, it's just the way we see it. Someone who appears to be ugly for you, could be someone's reason for living. When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself. So think before you speak and if you commit any mistakes just accept them move ahead. You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them. There isn't anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were. It’s absolutely okay to be wrong at times and guess what someone else doesn’t have to be wrong for you to be right either.
One of the most important lesson you will ever learn in your life is that don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do. And I would like to end my article with another awesome verse by my most favorite Sufi mystic Rumi, “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” I hope you enjoyed these tiny lessons and learned something, if you did I will feel blessed and if you didn’t I will still feel blessed because you read my entire article.
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