At once, he shouts, Is it a life?
In the next moment, exclaim, "Am I judging it rightly?".
The reasons for any aha, boo, eureka, yell, or alas in life are just phases of reactions, not the situations through which someone is passing.
We all live with the same sunsets and sunrises, but hardly a few practice living fully every day.
I am writing on any topic through the lens of my experiences and feelings, and at its core is life as it unfolds with ah, oh, and wow.
In this process, I embrace the power of contrast. However, I believe writing about life must be like a song about how life is.
Life expands when it is remembered that today’s life is tomorrow’s story. Then, why not live fully today with what comes our way? After all, life is the sum of all small and big events.
Now the point is the secrets behind making lives from mundane to memorable.
The first secret is bearing the brunt; the second is keeping going; the third is preparing for what I want to be; the fourth is measuring progress; the fifth is thorough adaptability; the sixth is our latent uniqueness, and so on.
"Chance favours the prepared mind," says Louis Pasteur.
We live with some principles and values, but the complexity of life makes things confusing, contradictory, and even frustrating.
What I observe is that with each passing week or month, the experiences are getting more colourful, but with a cost.
When I was engaged in improving both hard and soft skills, my grip on social matters started slipping. While gaining something, we are losing something somewhere.
We can’t sit on all branches of life simultaneously. We sit on the branch we like first and then look at the beauty of other branches.
"Only those items that I notice shape my mind. William James
In the same context,
It is said that our lives are what we pay attention to.
So, what we notice matters. When we notice only the odds in life, life shows more odds.
"If you want happiness for a day, go fishing." Chinese Proverb
In all actions, problems appear to make our actions stronger. After crises, some new norms emerge. I am writing these just to reconstruct ourselves, not as discoveries to make life without pain.
We devise our formula for living as we age with experiences. Let me remind you that there is no one formula to fit in every time for everyone. We must remake ourselves. And there is no remaking without suffering.
Rise and fall are the rules of life, and there is almost no rise without falling. Falling is not to cry but an opportunity to fly again.
There are many concepts of living large, and we must go by some clear concepts. Let the confusion be transformed into some concepts to understand the reasons for all the odds in life.
You are not lacking strength; rather, you are not using your strength.
"People do not lack strength; they lack will." Victor Hugo
And Muhammad Ali says:
"Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." Muhammad Ali became a champion in his life.
Many of us are against suffering, and so we suffer.
"Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene." A. C. Benson
All of us go through rough times in life. The point is to take it as a new opportunity to move forward.
Life is one, but people are showing up to live life with different identities. Such people know to grow from a small identity and add a new identity, and then something more. They know all troubles create paths to triumph.
Upshot
There is no meaning to be astounding. Learn to get roses passing through a dense bush of thrones.