LIfe is hard

I have received a message from an old friend and she told me that life is hard.. Yes, basically, life is very difficult . The poor and the rich have their own sets of problems and money is not every thing but cannot live without.  The poor struggles to live as money is their bread and butter and the rich wants to get more money because of their greed and status. Everyone have their sets of problem and so life becomes unbearable and tough.

However, everyone have a choice .  A choice to live simply and in contentment.  How we look at life is a very important factor  A home , three meals a day is a contentment for the poor but for the rich , they must have the billions before they can feel secured and happy.  Their needs and view of contentment is very different.

I was told that the happiest nation in the world is Bangladesh. In the past, they have one meal a day and they could survive and remained happy . Now, they have progress and they have three meals a day  and they also remained happy.  In the country , there is so many extremist and most of the people live shabbily in sheds and attap huts but at night , they walk for miles to see their friends and go for shopping and eat their basic food.  The buses are packed and overflow and their trishaws are plentiful.  But, they are contented with the freedom that they have and basically filling the streets during their off hours and off days,  It is a perception and personal judgement of what is enough for us.

We tend to follow others , to compete with others for more  or better than others to be contented and we lost track of what we need to be contented . It is the ego of being better or have the same wealth as others or status as others.  We follow the crowd instead of our own needs  The ego iin us and transform us into what we are not.

Yes, contentment is  personal judgement and if we are influence by what others have, by what others tell us, by measuring ourselves by the standard of others , we have deviated .  We have failed in our life journey because we are following others and not our self.  Why ?  Are we following blindly and live in another person's shadow or becoming what other people expect us to be .  It is  silly isn't it ? Who are they to lead us , who are they telling how we should live  or setting the standard of our achievements. Rubbish. We have to be our self and doing what we like and living what is best for us. Nobody have the right to judge us or tell us what we should do.

This thinking is very important as the wrong thinking , the wrong concentration and the wrong belief will change us and make us into another person which we do not want to be , We want our own life  Yes, keep telling our self that we want to be what we are .

Namaste.