It all sounds very egotistic when I claim to have changed and reformed my outlook toward life. Life is Beautiful and people have to accept that, it doesn’t matter in which situation you are.
Elusive Nature of Human Beings
The elusive nature of human beings and the impregnable eloquence seen in this calloused world force us to believe that everyone around us is trying to betray or hurt us. However, what will be life without betrayal? without getting hurt? without getting the feeling that you would never get up and face the world again?
Life is Not Easy
Life isn’t that straightforward, life isn’t about sunshine and rainbows, it has its ways of testing you, reforming you, and bringing out an even more robust and better version of you. Life is the most beautiful when you are the happiest and when you are the saddest. It shines its way through the cracks of your smile and sparkles off your tears.
Different Shade of Life
‘Crying’ is often considered an ugly part of life, a part that people resist the most, but we fail to realize that it is perhaps the most beautiful part of life after all. The tears represent vulnerability, motivation, an incentive for redemption, and, most importantly, defeat. Life cannot and should not be a joyful ride, taking bumps and accepting scars is what enhances human beings.
“If I was a tree in the corner of the Earth, I would dance happily in the winds from the Pacific, night and day. But here I stand tall amidst the human race making them happy and gay. Only to be cut down and taken away, but when the sun would set it would have made my life meaningful and my leaves would rest peacefully giving one final sway”
Is the world really gloomy or are we just sitting in the dark? Is our life really lonely or have we just not found ourselves? Is it that difficult to find someone you love or have you never loved yourself?
Life is Beautiful
During the course of our life, we encounter many experiences that have the potential to shatter our souls, break our grit, and even our demeanor. We often have the misconception that a successful life is a flawless life.
we believe that a “successful life” is like a ball of ice, glossy, smooth and capable of moving flawlessly without any restrictions. On the other hand, life is more like a rock, hard, coarse, and full of restrictions but it is strong and rigid and capable of withstanding impacts and collisions.
We have this innate hunger to feel bad about ourselves, to feel pity and sad about our life, we spend our entire lives comparing our sadness with someone else’s happiness. In the era of social media where we have access to look into people’s fabricated happiness.
Our interpretation
We often misinterpret the true meaning of happiness and get lost in the realm of validation, confusion and recognition. Happiness is not for others to see, it is a feeling of innate peace, tranquillity and self-assurance.
It is a feeling that is supposed to make us happy even if no one else is there to see it, it is a feeling that makes you content even if it is for a fraction of a second, it is a feeling that makes you love yourself more. The modern world is being made ignorant of the reality of happiness, we are driving ourselves away from love, affection and efforts because we are made to believe that happiness is some visual achievement that can be uploaded like an Instagram story.
We lack as individuals determination and discipline, “Determination” to be different and establish our identity and “discipline” to not be affected by peer pressure. As social beings, we have this dire need to be accepted by the so-called society no matter what it enrols. Our identity, individuality and uniqueness hold little to no value to us making us a tarnished and contaminated version of ourselves.
Life is Hard, but Still Beautiful
Life is about working hard to achieve our goals and letting failures strengthen us from within. We are not infallible and no matter how hard we try we cannot be flawless, we all make mistakes and that’s okay because mistakes define our true self and it accentuates our vulnerable existence.
When the sun sets and the light is overpowered by darkness, it’s our life that we see before us, the deeds we did, the worldly things we achieved, the close friends we had, and the first love that took years to get over. Life is not a burden, instead, it’s a blessing with some responsibilities. It asks us to work hard for the things that we desire, nothing, not even a blessing comes free.
The memories that we make stay with us for a lifetime so instead of complaining about trivial things, we should stay positive and try to learn from our experiences both good and bad. It’s impossible to be a perfect human being but the least we can do is respect the ones we love and the ones we once loved.
Final Thought
“So instead of cursing the one who you once loved, glorify the days when you were in love, glorify the time when even a simple touch of her/his hand gave you goosebumps, glorify the past and work for your future because you cannot control other’s demeanor, all you can do is work on yourself; so try to make yourself better not for the world but for your own good.”
So make memories, learn from your mistakes, and ENJOY YOUR LIFE.
By: Arbab Badar Khan
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