Every person in
this world has their own stories and problems and you cannot even find one in
this universe who lives happily without any problem. A student has the
pressure to score more marks than his best friend; an unemployed has the pressure
to get placed in a good job; a married man has the pressure to assist his
family’s needs and the list goes on like this.
In our life, we
are always running towards a target object which may be marks, job, money and
so on and in the process, we completely forget the purpose beyond running for
it. A boy was standing in the terrace and looking at the sky wondering, how
beautiful and happy a bird was flying. But the bird only knows that it is
flying high to keep it safe from its enemies as well as to secure a piece of
bread for its livelihood. In that process, it forgets that it has been given
the boon to fly which is not possible for humans. Just visualize that the boy
standing in the terrace is the GOD and the bird is we, human beings. God has
given everyone with a unique talent and he is sitting and wondering about how
well we are going to use the same. But we in the process of paying attention
towards either securing marks/searching jobs/ getting promotions, fails to
notice that we are having something unique which is not available to others and
end up wasting the same.
A child looked
at the sky and asked his brother, why there is no moon today for which, his
brother replied that today we cannot see the moon as it is a new moon day. The
child started crying and the mother on seeing the same, consoled the child and
told, that there is only one day i.e., today where we cannot see moon
but during the next fortnight the moon is going to get bigger and bigger. In
the same way, today may not be your day but ensure that one day the world is
going to acknowledge your efforts and hard work and believe that day is no way
far.
And nowadays, it
has become a habit to expect the result from a job even before starting it. It
is not wrong to estimate the same but at certain times, it is better to do what
life gives you without any expectations. In schooldays, we were reading the
theories in Physics, Formulae in Maths, Time period in History but we have
never thought how it is going to help us in our life or the higher studies or
the jobs we are going to undertake. We cannot say that I want to become an
Engineer and hence studying Tamil grammar is of no use to me. The thing is that
we don’t know what benefits and at what point of time is going to accrue to us
due to the efforts we are putting today and we expect to see the results
tomorrow itself. And we will start to worry about the same.
If we have to put the same in costing terms,
result is just a by-product upon which we don’t have any control. Our control
should be on the process so as to ensure that we are eliminating the process
loss to the extent possible, and the by-product will eventually come out. But,
we keep on worrying about the by-product and thereby lose control over the
process leading to an ultimate collapse.
To conclude, as
said earlier, everyone has problems in their life but the magnitude of the same
depends upon how one looks at it. There is a saying which goes like “Your
determination determines your destination” But it is your perception which is
going to determine, what your destination is. It is obvious and easy to note
the distress surrounding us but a simple change of a vowel can help us to
de-stress from the distress. :)
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