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My Self Motivation And Inspirations
I have heard a few people say, “I’m sad, hurt, angry, mad, disappointed. But you know what? I will put on a happy face and move on. It will hurt but I will survive.”
This is what I call positive stance in life because as I have seen in my life, disappointments are just God’s way of saying, “I have got something better for you but you have to be patient, keep living and loving your life and have faith.”
So I keep telling my loved ones to have hope but never just keep expecting things to happen and look forward to a better living but never wait to do your daily prayers.
In my many years of fruitful work life I have come across some people wanting to take advantage of me so I learnt never to trust a person who lets me down more than twice because I took once as a warning and twice gave me a good lesson but anything more than that was simply taking advantage of me.
I have had and sustained a lot of pain, betrayal and disappointments but I found that each pain made me stronger, each betrayal by people made me more intelligent and every disappointment gave me an opportunity to sharpen my skills and become more skilful. Then life was a favourable experience that made me a lot wiser.
I have had reasonable success in life but this does not mean that I did not experience failures. All my life there was no rush to acquire success and I knew that I had not reached my full potential so there was not much disappointment for me in life.
There was one painful truth of life that I accepted. No matter how much I loved something, in the end your loved one passes away and leaves you with another until death does us part. I loved my children so much that I tried to keep protecting them from all the hurts in the world that included disappointment and that was often a disappointment in itself.
Then I began to read, write short stories, novels and poems, listen to good stories from the scriptures and tried to follow the human values of truth, beauty and goodness thus preparing myself for a life full of shocking realities and stark disappointments.
The final result is that I am now determined to be my own sculptor and I am continuously trying to chisel away the ups and downs of life to create a better living and work as well as family life but I hate to sit down in disappointment when any part of my life is not properly done and made. The fault dear Rama lies in you yourself. Life goes on and I always try to remember that life is constructive work in progress and there is still much to do and achieve. I am not worried when the journey of this short life is going to end but I pray for peace within and outside to live a healthy life and always keep God near me because while He is great He is our saviour.
So when I was sent on a journey on this earth, I had no choice about when or where it would start. I even do not know when, where or how it would end. I am afraid I have no such map. However, all I know for sure is that it is bound to end sometime in the future. I am told that there are rules that apply to my journey but I would learn them as I proceed. Although my friends claim it, I cannot even control them or even know the correct purpose of my journey. All I know is that once started I must continue every day, whether I feel like it or not. My life must go on.
I began my life with no possessions and when I finish I must turn in all I have accumulated. In the end, some of my colleagues say, I will be rewarded or punished for all my actions and inactions. That is life and I cannot change this. But fortunately a little faith, some hope and a bit of sense of humour can cushion some of the bumps that I am to face. I still have full confidence in the love and protection that God Almighty has for human beings. I will endure and survive the calamities through His kindness.