Thursday, June 16, 2011

Relationships.

Firstly, I would have to clear the misconceptions about the term 'relationships'.

Relationship ain't just about you and your spouse, you and your partner, you and your friend. A relationship is the bond that practically exists between every single one that you know.


"... whose happiness mattered more than my own." -Randy Pausch.

If you are looking to marrying someone and enjoying a good marriage, please, marry someone whose happiness matters more than your own. If not, don't, you'll end up torturing yourself, and your partner.

And yes, if you are looking into genuine friends, this quote would apply too. And believe me, it is hell easy to tell if another pegs a monetary value/benefit onto your friendship. So if you are the kind of person whom I have just mentioned, it is due time that you reflect upon what you want in your life. And I would offer a similar advice - If the friendship is not genuine, you don't have to keep it going; Unless you are looking into networking, of which you are able to peg a monetary value onto them.

And for ALL relationships, this is one quote that would either make your life really really easy to live, or difficult to.


"If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time." 


Telling the truth - The easiest, yet the most challenging. It takes great courage to speak the truth. And when you do so, your life is, more or less, in place.

Most of the time, the truth hurts, badly. But ultimately, the truth is the truth. There is no value in deceit to make one feel more comfortable. The moment you think you are so good at something and that you do not need to improve on it, you are at your peak. It takes great humility for a great man to admit the minor flaws in himself, and resolve to improve himself in those areas. But in these, he grows to become an even greater man. And this is the differentiating factor between a great man, and a good man.

And once again, my life principle for every single one out there.

In actual words,
Do what you like to do, and don't do what you don't like to do. But if you have no choice but to do something that you don't enjoy doing, then you better start enjoying the thing you don't like to do.

In short,
Do what you want to do. 


It is possible for everyone a life with no regrets, yet too often we find ourselves ensnared in our current situation that we succumb the easy way. But trust me, it is easy because you have been doing it that way. I'm sure it was easy for Randy to live his life HIS WAY, because that is what he has been doing.

To start, change. Even though Man are habitual creatures.

Live well. Here are two quotes for you.


"You don't beat the grim reaper by living longer; you beat the grim reaper by living better." 




"Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think."


Though you might not feel the need to 'rush for time' now, be certain that one day, when you realize that you do not have as much time as you think you have, you would be looking back and hoping that you had 'rushed for time' then.

Isn't it ironic, then when 'time' was abundant, we simply waste most of it, but the moment 'time' is limited, we start rushing to do more with less.

Start doing more, when you have more.

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