One day while walking along a street and day dreaming, just
thinking about some stuff, I suddenly
realized a truck was driving much too close to me. As I had only a fraction of
second to jump out of the way and save myself. I was totally disoriented at the
moment, but soon a sense a relief flooded over me. As my mind cleared, I
realized, what could have happened if I had not gotten out of the way in time.
As I progressed towards my
destination, being more aware of my surroundings, I was thinking how we really
learn about things. My thoughts had become more focused and I felt the
seriousness that this incident had planted into me. I made a decision to be
more careful and conscious about the world around me.
It is easy to learn about things in a theoretical manner. We
also say that we learn practically. But often what make us learn things best,
are our failure. Failures have the potential to cause tremors in our whole
being.
I feel that I have become more responsible person after this
incident. I now care about my family and about the people who may or may not be
dependent on me, but need me.
My point is, we certainly need some tremors in life to
realize the importance of our own being.
How complacently do we live, don’t we?
We eat just anything we want. Whether it is a full of
cholesterol, or is a street side dirty food. We drink water from just any
place, we cross roads unconsciously listening to songs or talking to people
over phone. We do all kinds of careless stuff, that may draw us to a near
hazardous circumstances, and yet what we do is we keep being complacent about
it, without the thought of those who care about us.
Most of us have thought at some point that why are we even
living in this world? We may have also thought of it as purposeless. But it is
not. Life is important. A person who loves you, knows the importance of your
being, even if you don’t.
There is nothing else
but love that we are responsible for in our lives. We do things for love, we
take care of people who love us.
But our biggest responsibility is to Love our own self
first. It is not wrong to love others, but it is also very important to love
ourselves. Live for ourselves. Because this need to love oneself eventually
leads to loving others. If we could be loyal to ourselves and love our soul,
our being, It is the best thing that could happen to us.
We humans have the capability to forgive others of their
biggest mistakes, but we often keep ourselves unforgiven in our own eyes.
If we stop reprimanding ourselves, we will see how beautiful
this life becomes. It is easy to live without carrying the burden of guilt or
blame on our shoulders. Life is much easier then.
All that is needed is living life. And living life comes not
only with happiness but also with failures and bad times. Regretting about bad
times caused by just anybody, whether its you or it is someone else, is just
not worth it. The show must go on. It shouldn’t be ended due to yours or others
mistakes.
When I say forgive yourself, I do not want you to make
excuses for your failure. What I mean is to forgive yourself, and move on with
a conviction that the mistake wouldn’t happen again. That’s how we move in
life. Not forgiving yourself, keeps you stuck in a loop of guilt and blame.
This mindset causes more failures and now you are prepared to make excuses.
We don’t need to justify for our deeds in front of anyone,
as we are the ones to repent or bask in the glory. No one else does so on our
behalf.
Jamie Ann Richardson who is a wife, mother and author for
online and print publications writes in one of her posts: Once I ran out of
excuses, I reclaimed my life, now I don’t need excuses.
