I always wanted to live in good and healthy environment, a place free of pollution, a place in city free of hectic main roads, a place in city which has lots of green nature surrounding my home, the home which has lots of space to move arround, where I will have enough space and enough green plants and I practice there while its raining, where I can keep my punching bags, makiwara, sticks of different lengths and other Martial-Arts weapons, the the kind of surroundings that make one feel great everytime he thinks of or looks at his house. I always wanted to live in such kind of place. Thats my ideal house where me and my wife will live together, where I will live with the love of my life and we will be happy forever practicing Martial-Arts
Lets come back to reality, I live in a small sized room, nearby hectic and polluted main road where dust comes all the time. I wash my dishes in bathroom. If I have dishes to wash I have to walk over dirty dishes to go to toilet. I hate this the most. I can nowhere expect to live with my wife this way. I am living like this from last three and a half years.
Whats the gist of this post ? The gist is is what I felt today.
It does not matter where a man lives and how he feels about his surroundings. He needs to have a goal, an aim in his mind and he needs to change his thinking and doing patterns in order to rise in his life. If he does this he will surely improve himself to an extent beyond what he or anyone ever imagined. Exceptions to this are if you are cought in a nuclear war, if you live in a place which is abnormal e.g. where you can’t even get one time food to eat or your state is owned by a ruling country like Nazi Germany. Leaving these conditions aside, in a normal, day to day life, only a man can stop himself from growing and improving, surroundings don’t create good or bad life for you. Its a man’s own thinking and daily routine that creates his life. Improving, growing and rising ahead in life requires one to change his thinking, use his mind to put himself in the direction he wants to go. Its true in every phase of life whether financial, personal, professional or anything. Its man’s mind that creates his life, not his surroundings. The things a man wants to get, the kind of life he wants to live in future in next few years, the satisfaction he wants to have, does not exist now and if he changes his mind, his way of living his daily life, that fictional future will be created by his mind and he will get all what he wanted. At the same time, he may get other kind of fictional future (bad or worse or better) depeding on how he uses his mind. No futures exist , all versions of future are created by the way you use your mind.
I know its hard, its extremely tough, its painfully hard to rise ahead in life. And except working hard everyday for your goal what the other choice a person has ? The only two choices are: live for and get what you want or don’t live for your dreams and get a poor quality life. Latter always leads to the path of destruction. Long term happiness lies in using your mind everyday for your goal and surroundings has no role in that. Thats the only way I know.
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