Now, I see this idea as good and bad. Good, because sure, if you've failed, you won't get that degree you wanted. Because, what is this life other than a test? We're meant to work for things, and that's exactly logical to me. But I think there is bad in the sense that if you overemphasize that idea, you may be at risk of falling to negative thinking or ideas or beliefs. Repetitive admonishment I think is dangerous, especially at an early age, because at young ages perhaps our beliefs begin to mold, and thus certain ideas may become ingrained into who we are. That parent who keeps reminding us how bad our grades are; that news channel that keeps saying how messed up this country is; that supremacist who keeps believing how inferior that race is.
Proof is not a projection of future. Albeit the numerous difficulties you may go through, and the many things people have told you, just because you messed up, you don't have to be let down. Contrarily, that energy used to despair, can be used to convert into spiritual growth. It can be used to learn from mistakes, to realize your imperfection and thus dusting off the arrogance from your shoulders, to take time and become humble, and perceive the good around you. Because sometimes, when we are at the best, we hardly care about doing good, we just care about desiring more. That seems to be a paradox of human nature; although we have more than people who are much less fortunate, we desire much more than them.
But then there are those who are happy. Those, who when given, are happy, and when are deprived, are happy. Despite what they do or do not have, their happiness is not subjective to external stimuli...but objective in their perspective of life. Because they don't mind what happens, as they have one goal; to serve a higher purpose than themselves.
Even if they are jobless, even if they are without a car, even if they don't have the relationships that pleased them so much before, their hearts are unwavering. Their hearts are not subject to themselves, but in fact, to that higher purpose. And better yet, when they do have said things, they don't become overly indulgent, but remember to put the higher purpose before those things, and rather than becoming prideful immediately, they are grateful, knowing that whatever they are given is a gift, and gifts in this world are temporary.
They are grateful when good happens to them, and patient when bad happens to them. They mind not, as long as they are serving their higher purpose, because that's all that ever mattered. They are happy because of that; not because of the external things that come their way.
These people are ones who I aspire to be, and intend to become. To not mind what happened before, to not be afraid of what might happen, but to trust in my higher purpose.
This should be a reminder for me and you to be cheerful for everything that happens to us, and to never despair, because as long as we have that trust in the higher existence, you hold onto the strongest hand hold. It is stronger than any proof, past, or even present state that may be apparent. You never know what the future holds.
Looking head onto the calamities of the world, I meet them with a smile of confidence.
And God Knows Best.
:)
-by Seirios