Days Of Our Lives

Days Of Our Lives

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
---Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
---Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
---Dalai Lama

The days of our lives should be as the river flows into the sea, an adventure that makes us come to a greater awareness of something bigger than us ‘the purpose of mankind’, living together open-minded and loving one another as brothers and sisters.

Today, we live in a world where lies and deceit is worn as garment by people yet they boldly parade themselves as the all-righteous. Something remain unshaken, those who live their lives calling black white may accumulate great riches, live for many decades and gain access to the mightiest palaces, still peace will elude them, while those who chose to live by the truth and lead a righteous life may not last forever on the face of the earth but will attain the highest height of inner peace and live a blissful and fulfilled life.

The days of our lives should be to stay united and merry with one another but the selfishness in us keeps our hearts far away from each other. The act we pull every day is to pretend we are fine with one another even when our hearts are bitter towards another; we fool each other with our fake love for another just to have our way and get things done. As i say this, you may begin to feel bad of your pretentious attitude towards people, but i have felt same way many times, this is what we have gotten ourselves into, we all have been caught in the claw of deception, pretense and lies for each other, we just don’t seem to understand why we do it but we keep doing it. Often, you may have said to yourself i am a truthful and frank person but the people you relate with will eventually drag you into the mess, many times you give in because you want to be peaceful or have your way because your so called sincerity and truthfulness is getting you nowhere and creating for you more enemies, to settle it all, we then say the world is for the wise, you say the truth when it is convenient, keep mute when you feel unsafe or paint an acceptable picture when you have no choice but have to give your opinion and gradually you pull off the helmet of truth on your head.

Looking back at childhood days, you will discover that our parents are more comfortable with our visit to some families in the neighborhood than the others, often they prevent you from playing with some kids not because they hate the kids but they are protecting you from having an idea of the ill values, character and ways of life of such a family that the child came out from and at times it is to just keep you safe. As a kid you get worried and unhappy about your parent’s attitude because you just want to play with everyone and be happy, because you do not have in your heart any boundary as to who, where and how much you show love to people. However, as we grow older the love we carry in our heart for everyone begins to take a new shape and it won’t any longer be for everyone but conditionally for some set of people in our lives and for others, we just fake it if we will anyway have something to do together. This is how we all reduce the potency of the one love and one heart God instilled in us to make mankind a happy and peaceful one.

I look around the world and all i see are people who live everyday of their lives suffering from the ‘do your thing, i do my thing’ syndrome. Everyone just want to build a safe colony for the ones they conditionally love, many rich ones suffer from the insanity of living in a gigantic mansion all alone with few stewards whom they trust their life to, forgetting that many of this stewards don’t value the life of their master per say, they show conditional love to the master as long as they get desired or deserved benefits from him. Foolishness in busyness had its way in us already, in our so called developed society people hardly greet each other warmly, many smile but cry deep inside of loneliness and suffer depression because we prioritize accumulation of wealth and getting connections to people of high caliber over purely showing love to one another. It’s so pathetic that often we hear news of people been dead for years in their house and no one knows until maybe a need to check the house arise. A lot of people die mysteriously because they are isolated from families and friends, the desire for luxury and privacy has reached its climax and the love for each other has declined terribly. Many people live and die in loneliness, a lot of people suffer depression and we refuse to head for the rock, all because the fear of our neighbor parades our heart and we don’t have true love for each other that would make us share everything that belongs to each other without a blink of eye and live as one.

We can have the one love, one heart again for one another, anything is possible, and it can start with me and you. Forget that the world has degraded from God’s initial plan; we can jointly impact the world with the rest of the days of our lives. All you need to do, is change our mentality, check over and over again the thoughts that dominates your life, let true love for people guide your decisions, actions and reactions, you never know how much  your new approach to life may heal the hatred, dislike, anger, grief and loneliness in the hearts of many. You can save a lot of lives with your new way of reasoning.

We are imperfect creatures, we will often make wrong decisions and thread the wrong path, but we can still redirect our steps and make better decisions for our days on earth and that’s why we continue to shape our lives and shape ourselves until we die. We can overcome act of self-centeredness, we can make our heart pure towards our neighbors, colleagues, families and friends, and we can learn to trust each other, be peaceful and feel safe around each other and shower ourselves with unending love.

Love supersedes judgment; it keeps us in each other arms and takes us farther to a greater fulfillment. Imagine the great splendor that will bless our days on earth if we can all show love to one another and have one heart that we need one another and refuse to isolate ourselves from our neighbors. I know there are terrible things happening around the world; killings, armed-robbery, theft, deceit, war, hunger, lies, cheating, and so on, they all happened because we are just too selfish and we don’t care for the next man to us, our hearts are devoid of love, you feel no one cares about you too, so why should you care about others? Love has a multiple rippling effect, show love and care for your neighbor and it will spread and come back to you in greater form. We all want to be superior to the people around us and that’s you ask why wouldn't I want someone to bow to me and serve me? Greatness is found only in serving others, serve people and you will be greater than you can visualize. Love in truth is the way to go.

The purpose of our days is to be happy, we can only be happy when we believe in one love for another. Whatever we carry in our heart, imagine, pray to experience and work to make happen, this is what the universe bless us with. Show love and you will get love from every pole you head to on the globe. The days of our lives is governed by the law of karma, live by the sword and die by the sword, but live in love and harmony and end your days on earth in heavenly peace.

I see a new haven on earth coming to reality with you and I carrying love for another in our heart. Have peaceful and fulfilling days on Earth!

God Loves ♥ You

Ogundipe Clement Shola
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