Let’s imagine a situation where somebody has hurt the finger. Since it is a small wound that person has decided to not address it by cleaning it, dressing it and applying an antiseptic ointment. Let us say it as turned septic. Still it is not a big deal, since it is a small wound and it is not affecting your physical performance, you would ignore and keep going with your stuff. Now slowly but steadily you would feel the pain and infection spreading across your body. Then you may have fever and had to take bed rest. Now if you do not address it even at this stage it could be life threatening.
This is how all insignificant yet very relevant and most important aspects of life are taken care of . Like health, relationships, seriousness in job, your wellbeing, your vision and passion. Now I strongly believe that this is relevant to all of us whether one is following a good lifestyle or not .
The lifestyle many people now a days indulge in, majorly involves instant gratification, avoidance of discomfort and struggle. This could be a non-issue today but results in unavoidable sufferings in various forms.
We need to constantly remind ourselves to show gratitude and respect towards some of the important values of life like – our ‘overall wellbeing’ which involves our mental and physical strength, our emotional life which involves nurturing our relationships and social connections, our spiritual beliefs which gives us hope and faith in times of difficulties. To have a certain level of stability in all these areas of values needs work. This work is intricately tied with change, discomfort, pain, struggle. Self-development and growth is not possible without these hard experiences in life.
We need to constantly remind ourselves that we are the best rescuers of ourselves. Who else would know better about you than you. We know our best interests and we are the best people to judge what works for us and what not. We have to prepared and keep preparing to save and rescue ourselves when time arrives.
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