by Siddiqua

Created on: January 02, 2010

Sometimes life seems to be stuck in a whirlwind. It's like you are standing and events keep unfolding at an alarming rate all around you; you seem to be a silent observer of all the happenings, being able to do nothing than to just stand and try to take it all in. Life is a challenge. Life is an uphill battle. At times it seems like there's no way out of your problems. Giving in and giving up seems easy. Fighting is hard. It takes effort, struggle and a lot of determination. Blaming others, crying, shouting, complaining- these things are very easy to do at times when things are not going your way.

No one ever stops to think that, ‘Hey! Maybe I made a mistake somewhere along the way.’ Nobody looks inside their own self and thinks that maybe I was wrong; because sometimes the only way out of a bad situation is to blame someone else; to pin it all on someone else’s head. And maybe that person is somewhat responsible to an extent but that one person is not pulling the strings of your life. At the end of the day, it’s all that you do and say that matters.

 God does control everything. God has a bigger and better plan for all of us. Call it faith, call it trust, call it anything in the universe but this hope and this blind faith is why many of us are still fighting. Giving up is easy. And at times it seems like the only way out. But it’s never the right thing to do. Those who succeed are those who convert their shortcomings in to their strengths; who take adversity as a sign and don't get stuck. Because once you let despair sink in; once you let your circumstances play you, then there’s no way back. Because in today’s world it only takes a few small and insignificant things to bring you down and then keep you down. Be a fighter. Be a warrior. Battle it out. Take in every shred of hope and strength and store it in you. Life can become wary and full of sorrow and despair if we let our bad times go to our heads.

 No one said life is fair. No one said the world is just. Nobody’s perfect- but you've got to work at it. And the first step is accepting you were wrong; accepting that you have flaws and that they can be corrected. Do not blame others. Because blaming others for your life’s shortcomings can become a way of life; and then it turns in to egotistical arrogance. Face your fears; accept your mistakes and more importantly learn from them. If not today then tomorrow, God willing, you will succeed.

 Trust God for He is the ALL KNOWING and HE IS GREAT. Have faith in God and believe that He has a plan for everyone. And thank God for all the things you have no matter how small and insignificant. Thank God for being healthy, being able to walk, talk, see and hear, of being mentally normal. Yes the world may have gone to dogs but it just takes the determination of one person to make a change.

The great scholar, philosopher and poet Dr. Allama Mohammad Iqbal once said, ‘Given character and healthy imagination, it is possible to reconstruct this world of sin and misery in to a veritable paradise.’

 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the man who lead the Muslims in their fight against the British and Hindus on their path to obtaining a separate homeland called Pakistan said, 'With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.'

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