Having listened to a multitude of talks by several people on how to live comfortably, I’ve summed up their lengthy talks into a sentence: I have to live an uncomfortable life to live comfortably.
This is absurd. Right? The statement doesn’t seem logical. How can we live comfortably if we live an uncomfortable life? If I say that you have to live like this your whole life, you may question my sanity. How’d you react if I said that you’d been living your life like this since a long time ago? It’s hard to understand. Just keep on reading until you reach the very end. You’ll realise that you’ve seen life from a new perspective. If someone had said this sentence to me when I was seven years old, I’m sure that I’d have said nothing but rolled my eyes at their ambiguous statement.
Let me elaborate on this sentence by introducing you to a real-life situation. The situation is quite amusing, albeit sad if you look at it through my eyes.
We move to a metropolitan city and work hard day and night to earn a livelihood. We sacrifice our comfort and stop taking care of ourselves. When we work under someone for the first time, we have the same immaturity as we had while graduating. Initially, we enjoy doing work because we do it at our own pace and in our way until we are rebuked by our boss for taking so much time for a task. In his opinion, that task is trivial and can be done within an hour.
We can do our work with ease, but our boss doesn’t want to see us happy. He creates an environment, where we feel that either we have to do it before a deadline or die, just to put us under immense pressure. However, it’s not entirely his fault, for he must be getting the same amount of pressure from his boss. So, you see that it’s a long chain where everyone is linked to each other. The chain will become a circle if you transfer this pressure to your girlfriend who happens to be the daughter of your boss’s boss; this situation is highly unlikely. It's nearly impossible that we can be a partner of some big CEO’s son or daughter.
What if we are?
Karma, the first law of thermodynamics, and other religious scriptures tell us our every action has an impact on every matter directly or indirectly.
Now, I’m not wrong if I say that my blinking eyes in India impact a person sleeping in his bed in the United States of America, I’m not wrong if I say that my taking a bite on earth impacts the phenomenon of raining diamonds in Jupiter and Saturn, and I’m not wrong if I say that my exhaling air in my living room helps universe to expand.
I have to live an uncomfortable life to live comfortably.
I want to ask you whether it’s uncomfortable to breathe, get food, sleep, or be happy. Yes, it’s uncomfortable to breathe if you intentionally put your head inside a garbage bin. Our life is meaningless and incomplete like this piece of writing. We are living an uncomfortable life to live comfortably. I’m writing this article whilst sitting in a small cubicle amongst more than a hundred employees who’re busy doing their work and waiting for the clock to strike 7.
This is absurd. Right? The statement doesn’t seem logical. How can we live comfortably if we live an uncomfortable life? If I say that you have to live like this your whole life, you may question my sanity. How’d you react if I said that you’d been living your life like this since a long time ago? It’s hard to understand. Just keep on reading until you reach the very end. You’ll realise that you’ve seen life from a new perspective. If someone had said this sentence to me when I was seven years old, I’m sure that I’d have said nothing but rolled my eyes at their ambiguous statement.
Let me elaborate on this sentence by introducing you to a real-life situation. The situation is quite amusing, albeit sad if you look at it through my eyes.
We move to a metropolitan city and work hard day and night to earn a livelihood. We sacrifice our comfort and stop taking care of ourselves. When we work under someone for the first time, we have the same immaturity as we had while graduating. Initially, we enjoy doing work because we do it at our own pace and in our way until we are rebuked by our boss for taking so much time for a task. In his opinion, that task is trivial and can be done within an hour.
We can do our work with ease, but our boss doesn’t want to see us happy. He creates an environment, where we feel that either we have to do it before a deadline or die, just to put us under immense pressure. However, it’s not entirely his fault, for he must be getting the same amount of pressure from his boss. So, you see that it’s a long chain where everyone is linked to each other. The chain will become a circle if you transfer this pressure to your girlfriend who happens to be the daughter of your boss’s boss; this situation is highly unlikely. It's nearly impossible that we can be a partner of some big CEO’s son or daughter.
What if we are?
Karma, the first law of thermodynamics, and other religious scriptures tell us our every action has an impact on every matter directly or indirectly.
Now, I’m not wrong if I say that my blinking eyes in India impact a person sleeping in his bed in the United States of America, I’m not wrong if I say that my taking a bite on earth impacts the phenomenon of raining diamonds in Jupiter and Saturn, and I’m not wrong if I say that my exhaling air in my living room helps universe to expand.
I have to live an uncomfortable life to live comfortably.
I want to ask you whether it’s uncomfortable to breathe, get food, sleep, or be happy. Yes, it’s uncomfortable to breathe if you intentionally put your head inside a garbage bin. Our life is meaningless and incomplete like this piece of writing. We are living an uncomfortable life to live comfortably. I’m writing this article whilst sitting in a small cubicle amongst more than a hundred employees who’re busy doing their work and waiting for the clock to strike 7.
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