Life's not been same for everyone who lived it. It gave different challenges to everyone, put everyone across a distinct situation which had to be dealt with according to the circumstances at that very moment. Now, they concluded their experiences and left for the world, some words of 'wisdom and greatness' which all (or at least the most of them) have unfortunately been accepted as universal rules.
* "Life is not a bed of roses"
Seriously taken!
Result: Life now seems to be too much of a difficult job and every calamity we're facing adds up to our view that 'life really is VERY difficult.
* "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I m possible"
Got it!
Result: Since there's nothing that we think is impossible, we start being stubborn about the things we take up. We start wasting our time and energy on one particular thing because 'someone' said that it's not 'impossible'. Because we have forgotten the concept of moving on to something else, something that actually is possible.
* "Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by the lack of meaning and purpose"
Okay!
Result: Here we go, cursing our own self, thinking that it is perhaps us and our visionless mind due to whom the things are getting 'unbearable', that there is no role of circumstances in all what's happening.
* "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful"
Ahan? Noted!
Result: We start being so fearless that we actually forget that this is a cruel world we live in. We take the fact, that not everyone gets successful in this world, for granted.
Those who spent their lives before us, had a different world in front of them, different kind of situations to cope up with. We, today, live in a completely changed world. In a world where things actually are impossible, where circumstances do make the things unbearable, where the fear of being unsuccessful is now no less rare than the failure itself. We need to see the world with respect to what it is now. Why to say that 'a great man said this'? Why not live an ideal life and be the 'great man'?
* "Life is not a bed of roses"
Seriously taken!
Result: Life now seems to be too much of a difficult job and every calamity we're facing adds up to our view that 'life really is VERY difficult.
* "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I m possible"
Got it!
Result: Since there's nothing that we think is impossible, we start being stubborn about the things we take up. We start wasting our time and energy on one particular thing because 'someone' said that it's not 'impossible'. Because we have forgotten the concept of moving on to something else, something that actually is possible.
* "Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by the lack of meaning and purpose"
Okay!
Result: Here we go, cursing our own self, thinking that it is perhaps us and our visionless mind due to whom the things are getting 'unbearable', that there is no role of circumstances in all what's happening.
* "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful"
Ahan? Noted!
Result: We start being so fearless that we actually forget that this is a cruel world we live in. We take the fact, that not everyone gets successful in this world, for granted.
Those who spent their lives before us, had a different world in front of them, different kind of situations to cope up with. We, today, live in a completely changed world. In a world where things actually are impossible, where circumstances do make the things unbearable, where the fear of being unsuccessful is now no less rare than the failure itself. We need to see the world with respect to what it is now. Why to say that 'a great man said this'? Why not live an ideal life and be the 'great man'?
