Circumstantial Living is Such a Calamity
How many times do you do something to court attention? When did you cease being yourself for others to applause you? When did you give in in pursuit of your principles to earn a name? Can you count the many times your past won over your future? Why do you have some negative feeling towards self? You doubt yourself more than you doubt strangers just because you have no track record of success? Check this. It is just a quick dose for you. Make it sound like your piece.
No one has the key to unlock your potential. No history can dictate your future
without your cooperation. If your parents don’t have what it takes to become successful, it does not mean you are also doomed. It’s about you, through you and with you that things can change for better. It is natural for rivers to flow downstream but it’s still natural for fish to swim upstream. Therefore, it’s up to you to train yourself to be a positive thinker in negative circumstances just like this fish. Life can only retain its original taste if it’s appreciated by the person who lives it.
Indeed Circumstantial Living is Such a Calamity
We must learn to embrace our circumstances positively. We need to tune to the right waves, which will be clear to our lives. Noise kills our concentration and we lose focus in this precious life. If you are not very educated or your people are all illiterate, that should never deter you from being more determined and prepared to prosper. You cannot continue making your life a product of your not so good situations and think that you are going to enjoy life. You will be so wasted at the end. All your efforts will be futile. Self-pity and self-denial is the source of all fatal misery.
You might be in awkward moments in life. These are times when life stops making sense. Stops moving on. Becomes blurred and misty. You feel helpless and hopeless. There is hardly anything you can do to escalate the situation. Your family is breaking. Your relationships are dying out, one by one. Your faith is losing ground and it can no longer move you to the next step. Your prayers cannot ignite your spirit. People might be all over in your life waiting for your help, for you to pay them what you borrowed expecting better returns. All your dreams are no longer alive; they are shattered. You feel less. You feel empty. Questions cannot stop flowing into your mind but no answer is willing to come from the same. But in all these remember, ‘Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start’-Nido Qubein.
This is what most of us go through. The difference is how we handle it, think it over and speak it to our lives. If we declare failure even before making an attempt to overturn the situation, we don’t have any chance to win the battle. Why are we defeated by passing circumstances or even painful experiences which already took place in our life?
Why do we get wrestled so easily by storms of our own making? It is because we want to handle the giant problem at once. We must break our problems into short ‘verses’ which we can easily comprehend. The other is that we think we can give solutions to everything and thus get so frustrated because we don’t get the best outcome when we want to change the situation. We forget to involve, to consult and to surrender to God and to others who can be better than we are.
Article by Samuel Kanja, Chief Trainer at Kanja Life Coaches.
