Be Content...What You see May not be "how" it is!
By Kemi Mobuse - Monday, January 22, 2018
“For just one second look at your life and see
how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead
you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's
here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable
wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Coming across this quote, reminds me powerfully of reasons to be thankful, NO MATTER WHAT!!!. there are so many things I don't have, and I never stop wishing, but when I step back and look at my life, I realize how genuinely lucky I am and on those days, when I forget, I remember the below scenarios and I quickly get myself together once again.....
“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It
took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic
cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But
even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear.
So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As
the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man
sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup
with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”
― Khaled
Hosseini, The
Kite Runner
1. A guy met one of his schoolmates several years
after school and he could not believe his eyes; his friend was driving one of
the latest sleek Mercedes Benz cars. He went home feeling awful and very
disappointed in himself. He thought he was a failure. What he didn't know was
that his friend was a driver and had been sent on errand with his boss's car!
2. Rosemary nagged her husband always for not
being romantic. She accused him for not getting down to open the car door for
her as her friend Jane's husband did when he dropped her off at work. What
Rosemary didn't know was that Jane's husband's car had a faulty door that could
only be opened from the outside!
3. Sampson's wife went to visit one of her long
time friends and was very troubled for seeing the 3 lovely kids of her friend
playing around. Her problem was that she had only one child and has been
struggling to conceive for the past five years. What she didn't know was that
one of those kids who was the biological child of her friend had sickle cell
and had just a year to live; the other two are adopted!
4. Life does not have a universal measuring tool;
so create yours and use it.
Looking at people and comparing yourself with them
will not make you better but bitter. If you know the sort of load the chameleon
carries, you would'nt ask why it takes those gentle strides. So, enjoy what you
have and be grateful to God for it. Pass to everyone on ur list to learn from
other's mistakes
Not all
that glitters is gold, live and be happy with what you have, everyone is going
through one thing or the other,
I'll end this post with this beautiful Quote:
“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or
what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about
it.”
― Dale
Carnegie
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