Appreciate the beauty around you, it will fade very soon.
~ Anonymous
Today, I stumbled upon the story of a boy learning to code from his broken and battered phone. His heart melting email to Nelson (founder of amigoscode), to help him with a $50 investment from him, so that he can buy a computer and learn to code a little conviniently — warmed my heart!
I reckon, more often than not, we take things from granted. More often than not, we forget our privileged life circumstances, and tend to bend towards and ruminate around problems that aren’t even a problem (upon microscopical surgery) in the first place. For, if you’re reading this blog through the convenience of your smart phone or computer; there are people who want your freaking life for them in exchange. There’re people who are in real pain, than we are. More often than not, there are more real, complicated problems and issues than the ones we think we have. Hunger. Death. Poverty. The real struggle for bread on the table. The real fight and flight for dreams.
Dr. Jordan B Peterson puts it right, “Get your shit together! Be responsible for your shits and for the ones that aren’t yours as well.” Let the boy be the apt metaphor, the tool, the fire, the drive for our dreams, and save ourselves from lingering around complaints and dissatisfaction and the bruises and the ephemeral problems.
Gist of it all: Let’s all be grateful for the opportunity that we have which’s called life. Let’s all start from wherever we are and strive and stride and struggle with purpose, with firm commitment, and determination and discipline, with love and grace — not so much painfully, forcefully but with utter joy!
Namaste!
p.s. the video down below awaits you.