Why me .. ? how many times have we questioned ourselves that , how many times in our day to day life we've felt that the universe truly conspires to hit us hard when we are hurt the most .. and how many times have we felt a strange sympathy for ourselves..being the victim of the vicious circle of politicking and fraudulent systems.. inefficient methods and inconsistent society.
Self pity while being the most common trait in us, tends to eat away at your confidence slowly and steadily .. like arsenic poisoning in milligrams a day.. Its easy to pick out things that happen to us, but things aren't just happening to you and me..there are things that are happening all over the world to the entire human race.. not to mention the animals that are endangered.. and well how about earth itself? Why don't we ever wonder how mother earth would feel if she'd have the privilege to indulge in self pity? She'd go "Why torture me like this with Global Warming, with de-forestation, with ozone depletion, pollution, population, war, terror ... and mostly plastic...oh and as if that was not enough, you throw out space junk, so that one fine day it loses its orbit and comes crashes into me!!! .. Why me?!" Its rather strange how we forget that there are real problems in the world, in the universe that need to be addressed.. there are always problems in each one of our lives that will never go away.. why keep clinging to them and make life more miserable.. We as humans definitely tend to that quite often, we have queer pleasure in making our problems more complex than they really are and convincing our self to delve, revel, thrive in that gloated feeling of misery, when it is all really quite trivial..and can be simply resolved.
Isn't it a better thing to just take things in stride with a pinch of salt.. and if that's not enough, then a pinch of pepper as well and just be thankful for being alive and being able to think ..and truly speaking that is all one needs to survive it all... and sometimes food too.. there is nothing in this world that is more powerful than the human mind.. all you need to do is to tune it so that the mind stays at DC even when the situations around you are sinusoidal. However easy it is to succumb to self pity, one must realize that the greater truth is that if you are able to think, it means the worst has not come yet, and if you have lost your cognitive sense, then well you hardly would care about the world crumbling under your feet.. so there is no real reason for worry or sadness, not for prolonged time at least, it would only prohibit you from living life to its fullest. Having said that , its not good if you completely act ignorant of the compelling times ahead, but when things are out of your hand and there is nothing left to do, you wait and hope .. and patience is as much a virtue as is the ability to not sympathize with yourself!
Although sometimes this is easier said than done when you are in a particular helpless situation... There have been times when I have felt that there is so much that happened and there can be no looking up ever, times that my confidence in humanity was shattered, my dreams broken...but then the show never stops there, you pick up and move on... make more dreams, strive to make everyday worthy of you, rather than think that its never your day , your month .. or even your year.. you are what you make yourself to be.. and at the end of the day you can either be the winner by letting optimism take over.. or lose out on the good things in life by indulging in negativity and sympathy ..
As someone famous said -- Life is really long... don't make it more boring and longer by being sad.. Look inside yourself for happiness, then all else around will seem more saner and more beautiful than ever.. seek and thou shall find true love for life within thee.
Disclaimer: I absolutely love the song mentioned in the title.. its a beautiful song and nothing relates it to the actual content of this blog post, it just seemed a fit title, so used it...
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