This is the story of a young man who has just graduated from college with good marks. But it is precisely during this period that the global recession began to tighten. Like every young man, this young man had many desires and expectations for his future. But at the same time he had a nature that he always compared his own life, his own success with others. His own value depended on how far ahead or behind he was than others. If he was ahead of others, he would be very happy, and if he felt that he was a little behind of others, he would be very sad and frustrated. As soon as the graduation was completed, some of his friends went to Australia for a job, some went to Canada and some settled in his father's business. He also got a job. But he was not satisfied with that job, he was not getting the satisfaction he wanted from his job.
Trust Your-Self
He felt that his career did not go well because he did not get the job he wanted. This made him very upset, he started thinking a lot why this injustice is with me? Before that he was always ahead of everyone. Then he started worrying about why this is happening now, but the thought was easy because his parents had taken out a loan and given him such a good education. The financial situation of the house was bad. And he was not satisfied with his job and now he was not getting another good job. Disappointed one day, he goes to a forest, where he thinks alone, blaming himself, blaming his own destiny. In a way, he is communicating with God. He says to God, "God...I don't think there is any purpose left in my life now, you have not left any ray of hope for me, I want to end my life now". He was blabbering on like he was talking all day. He was saddened that his fire of despair had gone far beyond his dissatisfaction with his job and that his friends had gone far beyond him in the race of life.
At that moment, he heard a voice from the forest, as if God were talking to him. That voice says to the young man, "Baby, why are you so upset? Just look around you...observe and you will find the answers to all your questions." The young man looked around him, saw a thick, 3-4-foot tall shrub beside him, and beside that a sprout that had just sprouted from the ground. After looking at it, the young man said to the voice that I did not understand anything. At that time he got the answer from that unfamiliar voice that, "Baby, you can see these two plants on your side, i planted these two seeds in the ground at the same time, both of them were given the same environment, sunlight, land, but on the one hand it has grown very well but on the other hand the other seed has just sprouted. If you compare these two, you will surely think that this shrub has won the race to grow in its life, because it looks like the groom, but when this shrub was growing densely, this second seed was under the ground, it was not over, it did not gave up, at that time these seeds were solidifying their roots under the ground, expanding its roots. So one thing to keep in mind is that we cannot compare the speed of growth of that two, because everything in this creation, in this world is growing up, gearing up at the right time.
The young man was convinced that he would never be disappointed in the progress of others. Shrubs grow quickly, but it takes time for trees to grow. But both of them have their own identity in this creation, such a place in itself.
Seeing and hearing this living example, a new consciousness, a new look was created in the mind of that young man. And he went back to his home with a new positive lesson from that forest.
Life is not a race, all the things in our life will happen at its right time. Often the situation does not bother us as much as we our-self bother us by mere thinking. Sometimes god is not punishing us but we are punishing our-self
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