Today the library got another perfect score on the Request To Fill list; every item on the list was found, processed, and placed in the according outgoing tubs. How did we manage to do that again and again? We didn’t give up too early or too soon; as long as there was time and energy left during the day we gave it another try. Such positive attitude and determined mind set help us to meet patrons’ needs and take home sense of achievement, sense of honor, and sense of pride. The aforementioned three senses are values and foundations of happiness and joy that money is not able to buy or purchase. They might not be visible and tangible yet their existence follows as tasks are well done. Similar to the air and the wind, we can’t see them yet we need them to feel our own unique presence and sense of the Self.
As a person grows, develops, and gets older, the innocence, the most valuable Being as a human being, gradually leaves this person. Over the years, people we met, events took place, or places we had our feet in changed us. We have learned how it felt when encountering an embarrassing situation, how failures meant, or what we have disappointed ourselves. One frustration after another, a person gets tired, physically, mentally, and spiritually. When similar conditions or circumstances present themselves, we have learned from experiences how not to get bad feelings about ourselves. Instead of doing or even trying, we simply stopped taking any action. If it was ordained to fail, why should we waste our time, energy, and resources? Indeed, things happen, no doubt. But…
Did you ever think of yourself, in why way, is different from others, especially from those who you see and feel not as good as you are? Each and every person was born with different gifts. Over the years as one grew, educations from family, school, people, and the society equipped a person with learned knowledge, earned skills, and talents buried, hidden, then discovered. There is no shortage of learning opportunities. So what are the problems or obstacles blocking the way for a happy life, a life decorated with joy, successes, greatness, and things making a person happy and fulfilled? Who are you? What are you? Did you ask ever?
Habits are repetitive behaviors reinforced by autopilot and lack of reflection. How to break a bad habit? Personal experience told me it could begin with a wakeup call on self-awareness. First you ask questions; thinking and pondering empower a person to face the inner self, the self that is deeper than the skin. Answers wouldn’t come too easy for the majority of us are not sages, or saints. There are demands of ego needed to face and take care of. Be realistic.
Gradually, questioning would bring out lights; they are the guides for promising paths. They are guides meaning you are the one who walk the roads of life. One has to walk the paths and shed sweats to discover the answers. The path never ends.
Don’t give up too soon. Assistance and help from the Heaven would come only if one does the work first. The beauty of not giving up is one could feel one’s unique existence on earth. Similar to pain that sharpens our senses, difficulties and challenges would bring out our hidden talents and super power.
Move on, my dear friends. Who knows what’s waiting for you at the next corner of the road you are walking on? It may be another perfect score or opportunity you have desired for. Maybe…So why not?
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