"Life will always give us what we know we are worth. It never fails to take us at our own valuation."
- Ruskin Bond
Does it?? Does it to everyone?
It fails to give what we are worth many times. So much that the person even finds it difficult to live with the thought that "we should be happy with whatever we have". Even if the thought is accepted, and if tried to be happy with the almost nothing he has, he realises that the happiness he feels is a forced one. Its so unreal that there is tremendous pain in whatever happiness is felt. The pain takes control of entirety, so much that the will to live is lost. The thought of living itself is a burden, and exists just for the sake.
But then, someone says something, or does something for him, which makes him smile. A ray of real happiness. Its enough to bring his will back, even if its a bit. But then even that bit can do wonders. It saves one's verve.
2 comments:
There is a kind of technical error in the assumption you tacitly make. You assume that life has to give you something in default.
Life neither gives u nething in default nor takes it.Instead it provides you with a myriad of opportunties to get what you want.If you fail to get it, it is just a escapist strategy to not to accept the outcomes of one's own efforts.
Somebody else's achievement or encouragement may bring back that energy in you,but in the end, you have to visualise your own cheese,and go for it.Nobody can/should make efforts for your happiness.You are entitled for the fruits only if you make the efforts.Your life is your own making.
Anything else is just a denial of reality.Any denial of reality can only result in pain.
@Pravesh: The last para is not talking about someone encouraging a person or the person learning something form that someone's achievements. I am talking bout that someone doing something for a person, without intending to. That someone wont even realize he has saved that person's verve. Like by appreciating that person, or doing something unintentionally bringing a smile on that person's lips without knowing that person's condition, or maybe knows the condition.
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