Life happens to everyone
and sometimes bring along
good things and make us glad
at other times, it gifts us bad things and make us sad.
We really have control over few things in this world,
the control over one is really enough,
and it's the choice
we have to make at every moment between sadness and joy.
“...turn it into power.” - Rico (Blue Beetle).
The reality is, we are in tough times,
we’re drowning in our tears and having pains for breakfast,
But the truth is, this is the right time for you and I,
to wipe our tears and turn the pain into power;
this we can achieve by realizing that we’re the only heroes we have,
and if we can’t find the power to save ourselves, no one can.
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“USE THE PAIN WE’RE FEELING AND TURN IT INTO POWER.” – ROCIO (Blue Beetle).
...but by staying submerged in it.”
So it’s not not fatal when you fall,
But when you stay down you’re crushed;
We’re crushed by self defeats,
not by unfavorable conditions
which are normal and systemic,
But by refusing to look up when we fall;
The sun, the moon and the stars are still up in the sky,
They need no one’s permission to shine the light
On the path of the one that has chosen to see what lies in the morning after,
the coldest night is over.
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"You drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it." - Ovi Mahajan (Extraction).
People submit themselves to government becàuse they believe that government has the resources to make life comfortable in ways most individuals can’t.
Government everywhere knows this or should know this fact.
In places, where the legitimacy and acceptability are obtained by popular means, people who seek public offices promise to make life easier for the masses by lowering costs of essential goods and services.
One of the popular ways people-centric government keeps this promise is by subsidizing the costs of filling basic needs.
The costs of filling the following basic needs are often subsidized by governments that empathize with the sufferings of their people are:
1. Education,
2. Food,
3. Quality health care,
4. Decent housing and,
5. Energy.
People friendly governments subsidize costs of satisfying these needs because they understand that;
1. When the most people have access to quality education, they would in return use their acquired skills to support governments efforts to strengthen the economy and develop the society for everyone.
2. Without food, people will starve. A society populated by hungry people breeds violent crimes. The costs of, in the least, controlling violent crimes are more than the costs of preventing them.
3. Health is wealth. A healthy person is a happy person. A responsible government would always prioritize the enlargement of accessibility to quality health care for its people.
4. People need decent places to call homes.
5. Easy accessibility to quality and cheap sources of energy would boost industrialization efforts by both public and private sectors.
Such efforts would produce more jobs for the people, increase the availability of quality products at cheap prices, increase the gross domestic product, increase the per capita income of the people and produce a robust economy.
At least, the cost of food and energy should be subsidized by governments.
Kristalina Georgieva, IMF boss agrees;
"Governments need to subsidise the cost of food and energy for the poorest members of society."
Life presents to us all, numerous questions.
But it reveals its meaning to only those who seek answers to only few questions.
The meaning of life is found in the answers to:
1. Who am I,
2. Why am I here and ,
3. How do I fulfil the reason I am here.
Searching for answers to more, would easily make you unhappy and unfulfilled in life.
When you make attempts to take a big leap,
You should expect to be pushed and kicked
by those who seem to love and support you,
and give you hope with their nice words
but their actions give you every reason,
to seek to be isolated from humanity.
No. Rather choose the isolation
that protects your exclusive position,
to love who you are
and also, all those that come into your life,
it doesn't matter,
that many among those who smile back when say hi,
are those who don't want you to win,
what matters is, you succeed
and when you do, you become the star
that no darkness can stand on its path.
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| Motivation in your pocket. |
For me, it is Ralph Waldo Emerson quote,
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
Pause! What do we get by being angry?
Does anger on its own change bad situations and make them good? No!
Then if it doesn't , why do we sacrifice moments of happiness for an investment in anger that returns only negative?
It doesn't make sense, does it?
But it makes sense to go slowly, so that you don't miss life's beautiful moments, which are often sandwitched between the beginning and endless ending of the rat race to make ends meet.
It's this endless rat race that generates competitions among us and competitions create moments of disappointment, frustration and anger.
And anger, robs us of happiness when we submit to it.
The good news is, you have the power to always choose happiness over anger.
The power comes when you make up your mind to intentionally seek out people and things, that fill you with laughter and keep you happy.
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