Our life is full of ups and downs, twists and turns, love and loss. You can’t have the good without the bad, you need to learn to accept the bad so you can endure and overcome. Let’s look at some situations which many face in their life.
Losing the Job
“The company is scaling back, and I’ve been told to reduce the size of the group”, my boss told me as we sat down. “Sadly we would have to let you go! “You’re kidding right!’ was my immediate response, but then I found myself stammering. ‘You can’t do that – I’m doing so well, in the performance appraisal you gave me Exceeding’ I said.
He looked helpless with an expression of pity on his face. “It’s totally unfair,” I said as I walked out. I was shell-shocked. I went for a long walk afterwards trying to figure out what I was feeling.
I said aloud, “I just lost my job”. The words felt so strange in my mouth. What will I do now? For last few years I have been caught in the daily routine. This job was huge part of my life. I am cut loose and I’m either floating or falling, like Kati Patang. I went through range of emotions – fear, anger, sadness, pain, confusion, embarrassment. The future has become this big unknown thing and it’s scary. Is this the end of my story? I asked myself.
You are diagnosed with…
It’s just after midnight and Rajan was sitting with her laptop trying to work. No matter how he positioned his body the pain kept creeping up. The pain scared him, these attacks have been coming frequently now and it made him angry.
The next day he visited the doctor and he prescribed some tests. “Just routine tests, we can talk when we have the report”. He was at her desk at work late in the afternoon when the phone rang. It was a call from his doctor’s office– the answer to why he was so exhausted, having constant migraines, and a number of other painful problems.
“You have cancer” said the doctor.
Home Loan EMI due
“Your Home Loan EMI is due”, said the letter from the bank. Shuttling between hospitals and house in last few days, Ananya just didn’t find time to open the letters that had been piling up. Her mind went back to few days back when she got the call from the hospital. “Your husband’s life was saved, but since the accident was near fatal we had to perform some crucial operations.”
Ananya remembered her father’s words that property was one of the best, most reliable investments you can make because it was scarce—after all, you can’t make more land. And they had found this house and moved in after taking a home loan. Why is the EMI due? Didn’t Rajesh opt for ECS? He never told her much about finances, saying “Why are you worrying about it. It’s my job just like handling home is yours”. Now with the EMI due and Rajesh still under treatment Ananya wished she had taken more of an interest.
Adversity is inevitable. Life brings with it many challenges and many things to learn. It’s how you are prepared to face these challenges, how you overcome these adversities that makes all the difference, what you learn from them that makes up your life. How we wish we could just skip this uncertain part and jump ahead to. Every challenge we successfully conquer serves to strengthen not only our will, but our confidence, and therefore our ability to confront future obstacles.
So, the next time you find yourself standing in front of a huge mountain that feels impossible to climb–whether it involves your job, partner or business– refer to these words
“Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle Khuda bande se khud pooche bata teri raza kya hai.” Khudi is ‘self’ which in this context means mind/psyche/soul, Taqdeer here means fate and Raza means desire.Raise thyself to such heights, That God Himself may Ask- What do you wish me to write your fate?
Be armed with a plan and face adversity head on! #KhudKoKarBuland
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