The Key to Understanding Life and Yourself
The world has a way of shaping us to suit it , and we , on the other hand , have a way of making peace with our situations and thinking there is nothing we can do to change them . We , however , need to know that we have the power to change everything around us if we don ’ t like the way things are . The way life programs us as we grow up plays an important role in our lives in that , many of us end up following its ways of doing things and living . What we don ' t realise is that its way of doing things and definition of life is limited and corrupted . And so , when we position and align ourselves to the world ' s way of doing things , we end up limiting ourselves and never live to realise the greatness within us .
Many of us have been made to believe that the route towards success is well defined , and if we must reach our goals , we must strictly follow it . This route is full of boundaries , limitations , deadlines and set marks and we can only consider ourselves successful if we beat them .
In our quest to meet and beat them , we are met with frustrations and disappointments and many of us are frustrated today because these deadlines have not been met and ‘ age is no longer on our side ’. We are frustrated because we don ' t want to be judged and labelled failures . We don ’ t want to be left out and we do anything and everything just to fit in .
Societal and worldly pressures are not new in our generation , and many of us are bowing down or have bowed to them , yet they only lead us to a life of limitations and smallness . They deprive us of the kind of life God created and intended for us to live . This kind of life that many of us have embraced has become our greatest snare and trap to our failure in life .
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