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Today's
Meditation:
Sometimes
we start to think that the way we think of others is somehow
justified by their lot in life. After all, we're often
surrounded by people who judge others based on their wealth,
their lack of wealth, their good fortune, or their bad
fortune. But the way we look at others usually is a
reflection of how we feel about ourselves, how our own lives
are going on the inside, where it truly counts. While
believing negative things about others helps some people to
justify or rationalize their own bad fortune or lack of
success, when those beliefs are founded on untruths they
tend to pull us down to levels that we really shouldn't be
at if we want to be healthy in our spirits and our hearts. Some
people have been incredibly fortunate in life--let them be
fortunate! Allow them their luck without envying them,
and focus on improving yourself and your own life. If
we all can work on the way we do things ourselves and not
worry about what others do or how they do it, we'll all be
much happier. If we look at our own lives
realistically, we start to realize just how fortunate we are
to have the things we have, but once we start to compare
ourselves to those who have more, we start to lose the
appreciation we could be feeling. Life
is for living, not for comparing. Envy keeps us
trapped in the feeling that we're somehow lacking, when in
truth we're not. Let's focus on what we have and
realize that our lot in life is what we make it--we are not
helpless victims of some sort of arbitrary decisions made by
God or life. I have wealth in different forms than
other people have wealth, and I hope that I always will
appreciate all that I have without diminishing it by
comparing it to what others have. |
