Monday 14 October 2013

5 EXCUSES TO BE UNHAPPY TODAY

(These thoughts were triggered by a reader’s comment on an older post, given at the end of this article.)

  1. Work. For the sake of the work. For the satisfaction of having done it well. With sincerity. With integrity. Remember some of the words common to all the books of wisdom, ‘To give and not to count the cost, to labour and not to ask for any reward.’

    Profits. Are incidental. The lasting ones come in the form of satisfaction, of having done well, or tried sincerely. Strength. Sense of achievement. Having made something good. Having served a good cause. Having helped someone. Having made the world a wee bit better for your presence. They might, sometimes, come in the elusive form of money.
    Subsistence. Yes. We all need the means to live. The parents who spend time with their children will also survive. The money may be - may be - a little less, but the profits will encompass at least two generations. 
    Luck. If one can smile and laugh in and at the situation one is in now, one is lucky. If one frowns now in worry to create something for the unknown tomorrow, one has lost the today. If one can build happiness around things that do not depend upon money or power, one is LUCKY. If one’s entire being revolves solely around the earning of money or power, one is poor, and damned.
    Beware. Of the need-mongerers. One of the first subjects one studies when one goes for an MBA course is 'How to Create Need'! The title speaks for itself. The effort may give one money, the money daily 'needs', but the inner glow comes with giving, spending and earning something from much deeper inside than one's wallet.
    It is about happiness inside. Anyone you meet can rattle off 5 excuses to be unhappy today. It is the fashion. Not being tense or worried or stressed out would make one an oddity. But everything other than those 5 or 10 things is reason to be happy about.
    "I cried when I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet."

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    I hav been told by people to wait for my share of luck but then people who wait get only what's left after those who work. Who should i be? What is to be done?

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4 comments:

  1. noFearMon Oct 14, 10:51:00 am

    Thank you for such a great reply. 😃

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    1. Zeina GloMon Oct 14, 12:27:00 pm

      I like the name you use, 'noFear'. Everyone seems to have built layers of fear all around themselves, and it is out of vogue to leave the future to fate, kismat, destiny, nature, God.... I think it is all about good economics, fear sells, insecurity sells, insurance sells, supplements sell, accessories sell.....

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  2. Archie 'mid easeTue Oct 15, 12:30:00 pm

    Dear Zeina,

    Good stuff there! If one could just stop being so conscious all the time (in other words, do away with so many unimportant, unnecessary fears) life could become so much easier to live. There would then be so much more time and energy available to one to appreciate and enjoy the really important and necessary things all round: things like nature's bounty, the naughty gleam in a child's eyes, the anticipation of good times to come in a puppy's wagging tail, the synchronous movement of an entire shoal of fish or flight of birds. . . .

    Keep it coming. I'm a regular reader of your blog, even though this is the first time I've posted a comment.

    Archie 'mid ease.

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    1. Zeina GloTue Oct 15, 05:06:00 pm

      Thanks for the shot in the arm, ancient physicist and astronomer. Your comment warrants thoughtful and worthy reply, so I beg some time..... But yes, you actually said so succinctly the thoughts I struggle to project. Wishing you inner peace and attendant glow,
      Zeina Glo

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