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  • Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
  • Theme: Inspirational
  • Subject: Faith / Hope
  • Published: 04/01/2019

Celebrate life.

By Vaibhav
Born 1999, M, from Chennai, India
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Celebrate life.
When do we celebrate? What gives us happiness? What gives us satisfaction?
Do we ever feel what we have is enough? Or, we, as Humans, are always greedy for more and more and more?
There are thousands of question that we can ponder every day and still meet a dead end every single time. I think the above mentioned are just a few.
Human beings are definitely a complex creatures. We are of course the most sophisticated form of God’s creation, and yet, we have so many flaws.
I will skip my blabbering and focus on my point right now. Flaws are everywhere, nothing is flawless, not even the Universe.
But…..has this question ever occurred to you? What is the biggest flaw of a human being?
I am NOT talking about habitual flaws which varies for each one. I am talking about a common, Universal flaw which most of the Human beings suffer from.
Guess it yet? Pretty simple, very simple.
We do not celebrate life.
Do we? I don’t think we do.
When was the last time you were happy just because of who you are, and what life has given you?
When was the last time you were so disappointed because things didn’t go as planned?
When was the last time you cursed at life?
I am thinking, your answers to the last two questions will be more recent than yours answers to the first question.
Why is that? We all are so busy expecting something from life, that we completely ignore all that the life has already given us. What you have may seem unimportant or trivial to you, but in the eyes of another person, what you have may seem like the perfect life.
When we walk everyday to our office or school or wherever we go, we want a bike. When we have a bike, we want a car. When we have a car, we want to travel in airplane.
Where is the satisfaction here? What do you think will go on in the mind of a person who is not able to walk? My best guess would be “Wow, he is so lucky. He can walk wherever he wants to”.
What will be in our mind? Probably “ Damn it. Everyone has a car, even my neighbour does. God I hate walking.”
It’s simple. We don’t know if we had a “before life” and we don’t know if there is an “After life”.
The only thing we have is the Present. It’s not going to get any better because you curse at it, hate it.
The only thing which makes it better is if you accept it. Accept life for what it is.
Not everyone is born to be famous. Not everyone is born to be a billionaire. Life doesn’t work like that. There needs to be a balance.
But what I can tell is that, I think, and I hope, everyone deserves to be happy.
It is a pretty silly thing to do, comparing your life with others. The journey of life of two persons cannot be same.
You cannot judge the other person’s life unless you have walked in his shoe, and if I understand it right, your life doesn’t allow you to walk in another person’s life because there is just not enough time.
Life has lots in store for you. Happiness, sadness, fun, learning, chaos etc.
You live yours, happily, satisfactorily and that’s all you can do.
I hope we all try to be happy and celebrate life for what it is and not for what it can be.



(These are Just random thoughts that popped inside my head. These are simply my personal thoughts only,just to be clear, and is not intended to be imposing or " I am right" sort of attitude.)
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Heather Lacks

01/26/2020

Wise musings. Life is what we make of it.

Wise musings. Life is what we make of it.

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