LIFE AS WE SHOULD KNOW IT

In life, we will be meeting people. And it is our nature as human beings to interact or
to associate ourselves to others. No one can live alone and people are as if
interconnected with each other by some strings. As we make an action, we are able
to pull the strings that enables us to have an effect unto others. Others may call it as
ripple effect. We should be very much critical of our own actions, because we don’t
know what others are going through, we should learn how to affect people positively
so that they may be able to spill it unto other people too. Sometimes we tend to
forget that we are living in a world which is diverse. People are different with each
other in many ways and we should learn to consider that. Since we are not alike,
there will be times that we’ll be able to engage in disagreement, but I tell you, it is all
okay, we just have to talk it out and appease ourselves. We may get disappointed or
frustrated at times but we should think that we are not perfect, all of us can commit
mistakes. All of us are allowed to be tripped sometimes, as long as we’ll have the
chance to correct it and modify ourselves, it is better than to not have mistaken at all.
We think that we are the master of the universe, but truly we are not, we are just
speck of the universe. And giving a little hope, being kind and considering
forgiveness doesn’t hurt.
As people, we try our best to prove ourselves, we are trying to mold our decisions
based on how will it be able to please others. Though we can say that it is morally
correct, how we live our life should be based on how we control it, on our own free
will. We are always afraid on how our society will regard us, but we should not
succumb, onto a certain feeling or thoughts that will enable to have full control over
us. We should be living our lives based on how we want it to be. We should be able
to hold our thoughts and feelings as our own.
We should bear in mind that it is not the things that we know nor we do which are
important, it is the quality of our heart. We should be kind in our thoughts, deeds and
words. We should not be hypocrites, but instead we should be seeking the real
meaning of goodness. We should be righteous not because it is regarded to be
morally correct, or because people will be lifting us to a pedestal, or because there
will be this good karma that will return to us. We should learn to be virtuous because
it just feels good. We need to have morals because it is how things should be
naturally. We aren’t placed in this world to prove our greatness or to be popular,
maybe we are positioned here because of a much greater purpose, uplift the
sufferings of others through emulating kindness and forgiveness. At the end of this
lifetime, and as we transition to the afterlife, we will be stripped down of the
possessions that we have hardly earned, we will all be equal, and what will just be
left are the things that we’ve done.
As a teacher, we have a lot of baggage. And we tend to bring these baggage with us
all the time. They say that in order for us to become good teachers, we should be
able to separate our personal and professional lives. And as per experience, I can
say that, we cannot really do that. Sometimes we tend to bottle up everything inside,
and without knowing it we just explode and even put ourselves at stake.
Circumstances and people test us, and even we don’t want to, we just succumb to
the thoughts and feelings that we think will be able to make us better. The world isn’t
nice, there will always be bullies who will be testing our patience and put us on the
edge. But despite of these, we should know that our thoughts and emotions should
become products of our own free will. Despite of everything that we go through, we
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should learn on how to change our perspectives. People may do wrong to us, but we
should bear in mind that these certain people does not actually know what they are
doing, that they are just being blinded by the shadows that they hide underneath,
and they are just mere victims as well. Instead of letting ourselves be angry, let us
learn how to reflect, we should think of how things happened, what lead a certain
person do such thing that didn’t make us feel good. And instead of plotting our
revenge, we should learn to heal others, heal the things that poison their mind and
actions.
We attract our own reality. Things happen to us because we attract those things and
it is perfect for us. The victim of our negative thoughts is just merely ourselves too
because it poisons our perspective and rots our soul. We should be positive because
definitely this certain perception of ours will might as well attract positive vibrations
that will allow us have to have good outlook and might help us change our view
point, even in the midst of the darkest moments. All of us faces something that can
shake or corrupt our faith, but we shouldn’t be moved by those factors, that instead
of sulking, we should learn on how to make ourselves and our situations better.
Life is not how we actually perceive it, it is bounded by different cultures and beliefs
that define it. People differ with each other, on how they live their life, how they cope
and how they treat other people. But above all these things, there lies these factors
which unconsciously control us and the material world (money, power and
relationship). Life as we know it, these are the things that we know are important, but
in reality these are the ones which makes us suffer. We should learn on how to be
liberated from these things, because as we do, we are freeing ourselves from too
much expectation and desire which might lead us into doing something which isn’t
acceptable.
Life as we SHOULD know it is a life where we understand ourselves better, a life that
is not controlled by material currencies, a life that is not focused on desires and
expectations, a life where we live out our truth and a life where we regard our
neighbors as someone who are more important than ourselves.