You're Important...
Many of us spend most of our time in doing things what others want or expect us to do as our duties or responsibilities. It is true that it feels really great to do things for others and their happiness but with this most of the times we forget our own self...our desires..our wishes..our dreams..our happiness..and that ultimately lead us to depressions..lack of satisfaction..and can also make us feel as we are caught in an undertow of survival...
While fulfilling your responsibilities and making others happy we shouldn't forget that WE'RE IMPORTANT too...we also need our own time..our attention..and sometimes we also need to pamper our self and make our self happy..it is very important to know our self..our desires..our dreams..our true happiness n peace..
So just spare few minutes in your routine for your own self...look into your heart..explore yourself..your dreams..your desires..define your true happiness and peace..and then go for it!
Peace!
Samrina
9 comments:
very wise words...it def helps with overall health and wellness...
__I often see... that when I do something for someone else... I am doing it for myself as well; it sates my desire -- to BE --.
__But too... we must never forget to care for ourselves!
Great, Sam, and a world of good wished to you!
Sam, excellent words you have shared!
Thank you!
One must always take care of oneself!
And I really liked what Magyar wrote too!
Wise words that I agree with!
Take care!
Margie x
so true!!
These are wise and true words, thank you very much for sharing them.
Sam, I hope you do the same. So very very true and wise - we often overlook ourselves in our desire to be help others and we can't be much help if we wear ourselves out. Magyar is right, too, that doing for others is also a gift to us.
great piece to read on a monday morning!!!
Hi n a big thanks to everyone visiting my page n all your appreciation for da post...it really means a lot...
Magyar...U so right..n i do agree with ya point..n i hv mentioned in ma post as well that it really feels great to do things fr others..thanks for adding your words here..:)
Best Regards,
Sam..
It was the second day of Eid. Everyone was making merry at their places on that festive occasion as it was a public holiday too. I was refueling my car on a gas station. I saw this old man passing by on road on his bicycle. Suddenly the bidycle fliped over and the old man came down. I didn't see any apparant reason of why that bicyle fliped over except that there was something wrong with the old man. Sadly no body stopped for the old man. I quickly rushed towards him, gave him a hand, helped him stand and rescued him to a chair in the gas station. Old man was constantly fumbling his pockets for something and he was just too feeble to utter even a single word. I tried to rub his chest and I felt there was something in his front pocket. I took it out and it turned out to be an inhaler. He quickly took some puffs and felt a little better. He asked for some sugar as he was also diabetic and probably the reason for him flipping over was that his sugar level went dangerously low. I asked him where hes coming from and whats his destination. He told me that he's a carpentar and he worked on a daily wage and that he didn't have any kids. He was going to the factory to see if its open and if he could get to work to earn his daily wage of 300 rupees. He further told me that he had to pay the electricity bill, rent and other utiliy bills. He wouldn't be able to feed his wife and himself if he didn't have work that day. Imagine a man aging 80,diabetic and asthamatic, travelling 14 miles on a bicycle on one of the biggest festive ocassion of the year, looking for his daily wage. I was in two minds whether to help him financially or someother means. I took a currency note of 1000 Rs from my pocket and offered him. The old man with a big self esteem refused to take that amount saying that he was not a begger and that he works with his bare hands to earn and off he went to his bicycle and disappeared.
That incident left a very huge mark on my life. I started to compare my myseries with the old and I found out that the comparison is not even possible except that my little daughter passed away at the age of 2 months. I couldn't sleep well a number of nights after that incident. I started to feel guilty whether I'm just another selfish human? What's the purpose of my life? Is my life, my dreams, my wishes more important than others? Do I have the right to be happy when others are not? How important is my own life? I pondered and pondered and pondered. Extremely depressed and low and then I came to a resolution and told myself that everybody lives for himself/herself in this world, you;re no different. There has to be a purpose of my life, running after material well being is surely not the purpose of this life and people around me are more important than my ownself.
I know people would disagree to that but thats how I have started to percieve things after that incident.
Thanks
Umair
Post a Comment