Life is a happy and wonderful journey to travel.
While threading this journey of life many want to prove their capabilities.
They slog till the fag end days of their life to make others believe that they
are living a happy life. It becomes so important for them to get an
appreciation from others that they have lived a life of worth. They want
themselves to be recognized as worth in so many crores before they leave this
earth plane, it is their life ambition. They sacrifices their passion, interest
and ultimately become a money minting machine. They always expect triumphs in
life they cannot stand turbulence, they get rattled if they have to face one.
They cannot tolerate if any of their colleagues or friend do better than them.
Instead of joining the celebrations they are busy cursing their fate and
destiny for not giving that chance to them.
And there is another set of people who have
understood that life is to be happy and enjoy every event irrespective of
triumphs and turbulence. And more importantly it is to be lived for self and
not to make others feel that we are leading a happy life. They are happy for
their colleagues or friend if they grow big, they have this magnanimity to
appreciate their success and be a part of the celebration.
There is a vast difference between these two ways of
leading life. While one set of people live life thinking to be happy instead of
expecting others to give them a report card of their life, unfortunately
another set are happy just to hear from others that they are happy and toiling
the whole life expecting an “A” class certificate from others.
Is it the way to lead a life? This is a living of
False Prestige.
If one does things even if he does not like, just
because others like him doing it is called False Prestige. If one values false
prestige more, even nature does not give him a helping hand. A close example
for it which I can provide is this: Suppose I create a blog and write something
interesting and informative. Someone comments that the blog is good and they
give a pat on my back for what is being written in the blog. Inspired I write
some more blogs and comments start to flow into the blogs praising the ability.
After some time even if there is nothing for me to write, I am forces to write
just because others like my blog. I keep writing even though it is not up to
the mark, deep inside me in my heart I know it. It is then a small frustration
builds as I unable to create a blog daily but have to satisfy my readers and
one or other day it has to explode and it will explode. Instead I have to
understand that I can write only to satisfy myself and with the only intention
that the thought in me has to reach others. And if my intention in writing the
blog is not to make my readers feel that I am a great writer or so and pat my
back, then without my conscious there is a continuous flow of creativity in me
which even I cannot stop.
You need to be happy with what you do now and also
in future and have to focus on what has to be done to achieve that, rather than
get to know what others feel and wait for them to give a thumbs up or a
certificate for what I have done. After all what counts at the end is our
standard of life not our standard of living, not our seeming greatness but our
simple goodness.
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