I see a large part of our young generation suffering from depression. They are very worried about their depressed lives. The question arises in my mind: where does this depression come from? The answer is, this depression is rooted in their perspective. If you can change this one perspective, life will become much easier. You will no longer have to be disappointed in life’s numbers. Today, I am telling you three ways to change your perspective and have a happy life.
1. Think simply without making everything difficult:
We all have those friends who always say, “Dude! What will happen to me? I can’t study at all!” And when the results come out, they get a perfect score. Then there are other friends who don’t study much, and they don’t even worry about it. Even if they get a pass mark of 40 out of 100, they are happy.
The first type of friends always thinks that if they don’t study well, their results will be bad, they won’t get a job, they won’t get married, they won’t do anything! Great darkness will descend on their lives. And the second type of friends plays with other things in their minds. An exam is just an exam for them. If they do poorly in this one, they will do well in the next one. There is no shortage of opportunities—such is their way of thinking. So what is seen is that just because of different perspectives, the ideas of two friends about exams become completely different!
Our life is also like this. If you look around, you will see that there are many people who are not happy despite doing a lot. Life is a disappointment for them; everything is difficult from their perspective. Even if they do something good, it seems very small to them!
Some people take life very easily. When opportunities come to them, they accept them with a smile and achieve success. Again, without being broken by failure, they move forward on the path of something new. They have the rare talent of taking everything easily.
How do we build our lives? Can we maintain a very difficult perspective like those friends, or can we maintain a simple perspective like those second-type friends? But the key is in our hands!
2. Find happiness in our own life:
Let me tell you a story—a story of two children. One lives on the eighteenth floor of a big Alisan building. From the window of the eighteenth floor, he sees another child wearing torn shorts playing football in the rain. His mother did not let the child from the Alisan building go down, thinking that playing in the rain would make him sick!
The child from the Alisan building is in great pain. He thinks that if he were that boy, he would have so much fun playing football in the rain! The funny thing is, at that very moment, the child below is thinking about something else. There is poverty and hunger in his house. He thinks that if he were the child from that Alisan building, he would live happily ever after! He would have a big house, good clothes, and good food!
This problem also exists among most people in the world. They are constantly worried about how other people are doing and how happy they are.
Their frustration never ends! However, if you look at the details of your own life instead of researching other people’s lives and try to improve the sad parts a little, you can be very good.
If you can build your own life without thinking about others or following others’ paths, then nothing else is needed. If you change your perspective, your life will also become much happier.
3. Let your dreams fly:
There is a saying that most of us die at the age of 25, and their bodies are buried after fifty years. Although it may sound strange, it is true. Before graduation, by the age of 25, we have so many dreams in our minds—we will do this and that. One idea after another starts coming to our minds. We want to go on a Europe tour, and so much more! But after graduation, pressure comes from the family to get married, to get a job.
Most of the time, the jobs are not to our liking, and frustration increases. Along with the pressure of running a family, life becomes difficult. Those dreams die while working against the will of the mind and pulling the strings of the world. That’s where we actually die. Only the dull body remains.
But there’s no need for that to happen! Let’s change our thinking a little. Let’s think about what we are doing for ourselves, for the country. If we are not doing anything, then what’s wrong with starting now? Whether you are fifty or more years old, there is no obstacle to doing work. Once you start doing something yourself, you will see that you feel good about yourself, and you will want to do better!