Life as it is!

I am standing at the side of the road on a Saturday night. The vehicles passing swiftly and the lights coming from them made me think of life. When I say life, it is not about my life but life in general. When we are born, we are being put into this world without our permission. After some days, they give us a random name and we have to live with it. Even though we can change the name later, there will be one elderly person, who has successfully outlived his/her allotted lifetime, to remind us our real name. We are sent to a school, whether we like it or not. Then we have get selected into a decent college and study a curriculum created by some random person, who thought this is best suited for everyone in this world, irrespective of whether or not it befits everyone. We study and study till we clear all the exams and there awaits our “Azrael” in the name of “Job”.

We get to work in a job which pays peanuts, where we have to work day and night and when we return home, our soul would have left its body. The 8 hours sleep we get would probably be the best time of that day, and the next day when we wake up, the crucifixion starts again.

Many people have given their own explanation about what life is — How it should be lived — and what needs to be done to live an exuberant life. It works some time, but most of the times, the hyper active minds will always have a way to think something irrational and ruin the day.

Let me tell you an eternal truth about life. We cannot be happy all the time. Some people are happy all the time and you can find those people in asylums. We will face all kinds of difficulties in this life, and we will have to face them without procrastination. Sometimes life is like a highway drive where everything goes smoothly. Most of the time it is a bumpy ride. Whatever the road is, we have to take the ride and reach the destination.

You might wonder what the destination might be?
For some people, it is the retirement time, when they get to relax every day, having their favorite meal every day with their favorite people. Until then, they want to work as hard as they can.

For some people, there is no retirement and being active all the time is what keeps them alive.

Destination is different for different people. It is a choice taken by individuals, and the choice depends on whatever satisfies them.

Some people work hard and earn as much money as they can. Some people are satisfied with whatever money they have and like their life to be peaceful. There are many ways to reach the destination, and each of them is custom made.

Happiness is not perpetual. Understanding this can bring change to your life. Happiness is just a psychological state of a person’s cognitive processes at a certain time. It is just like other states of mind, but overrated. You cannot be happy whenever you want. The situation determines your state of mind. If someone tells you to always be happy, you can ignore them.

Many people waste their time by going behind happiness. Happiness is forever changing. A person with a new bike can be happy for sometime, however after some years they will want to buy a car. Buying a car will make them happy. After buying a car, they will want to buy a bigger and fancier car because that will make them happier. But if they cannot buy that car due to their current financial situation, it will make them dejected. Something which will make them happy will also make them sad at the same time. If they understand the situation and act, they can avoid the unnecessary misery.

What is life?
This is a question which nobody can answer, but we can understand certain things about how it works. Life is different for different people. The journey is different, the destination is different, everything is different for each and everyone. If you look at someone’s life and think that you want the same kind of life, that is not possible because life cannot be photocopied.

You can live your life as it is and work hard to surmount failures when it comes. When you understand that your life is different from someone else’s life, your struggle is different from their struggle, you can understand that your success doesn’t depend on other’s success.

Worrying too much about life is not going to solve any problem. We have to do what we are doing properly and wait for what comes of it.

The vehicles halted and then I crossed the road.

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