FAITH or FEAR?
- kankita2918
- Feb 20, 2022
- 5 min read
We live in a world where life has become rat-race. We are constantly running after things, jobs, promotions, fame and relationships. World around us is changing at fast pace so we insist on doing everything fast just like our 4G network. This lifestyle brings a baggage of fear with it, the fear of losing out on things, the fear of leaving behind in this rat-race, and the fear of not being good enough as we compare our lives with others. So we mindlessly keep shuffling from one job to another for more money, from one relationship to other in search of that perfect partner, because we don’t want to be late and left behind by others. We keep spending each day the same way, struggling to find peace and contentment with what we have. But we don’t bother to just stop for an hour to reflect on things like where we have come from and in which direction our life is heading. Am I really happy? Is this the way I always dreamed to live my life? Do I really need the thing I am chasing for so hard? Is it going to give me fulfillment in life? We never dare to ask such questions to ourselves and end up feeling exhausted every once and now.
Just like the space between the words gives meaning to a sentences, those little pauses are essential to give meaning to life. People don’t understand how important it is to reflect on our life and actions to know how much you have achieved and how it has affected you as a human being. Did it make you a better person or it just made you materialistically wealthy and made you lose your ethics and values you held so dear to your heart before? Do you really love your life and love what you do most or are you trying to fit in just to pay the bills? Are you really happy with your life partner or you are just continuing it because of toxic codependency on each other? If the answer is in favor then congratulations you are on the right path and you should celebrate these accomplishments. But if the answer is no you need to make some changes before it’s too late. You will say if our lifestyle is the main root of it all then fine we will change it. We will do it slow and at our own space then we should we really happy, right? To be honest it will make things better but still you won’t be content with your life. I will tell you why, because people lack in faith. They don’t have faith in themselves, in their dreams, in love, in kindness, in their life purposes, in their relationships, in their karma, in their partners in different aspects of life, in the Universe and most importantly in God. People don’t have faith in every good thing about human experience and then they complain about life being boring, unfair and hard. I am not saying life is easy and you will walk on roses everyday but even on that worst day you still have something to be grateful for and something better to look forward to the next day. But we insist on concentrating our whole energy on what we lack than what we have. Being ungrateful and taking things, people around you for granted are the worst mistakes we all do every day. Minor or major inconvenience happens in life and we switch into victim mode. We start blaming situations, people, God, government, systems and list goes on but we don’t realize the struggles we are facing are either the consequences of our actions or it may have some higher purpose involved that it might actually be highest good for you or others who need help even if it doesn’t seem like that right now. You can connect the dots backwards only, to move forward you will have to take the leap of faith. Pain makes us kind, empathetic towards others facing similar issues that’s how we connect with one another. Hard times shows true colors of people around us and you can use that to de-clutter some situations and people in life. Pain comes so that we can reflect on our actions and know where we need to improve. So it has its own significance in life.
But most importantly why we suffer so much when things don’t go our way is because of faith. Our walls of faith have become so weakened over last few decades that we drown into the spirals of fear, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and insecurities every time we encounter failure in life. We struggle to find faith in our capabilities, our good deeds in the past, in our relationships, in people around us and in God or Universe. That is why we suffer so much. We get so agitated when we see our relationships collapsing but we struggle to trust in our partner or in what we shared, sometimes due to fear of losing out on him and other times because we know deep down our heart that foundation of our relation is weak. We didn’t give it enough time and energy to flourish as we wanted to see outcome of it fast to show it off in the world or to ban that fear from creeping in our head. So we skip some essential steps in laying foundation and now we don’t know how to control the damage, same situation goes for careers, businesses, and every dream you wish to fulfill. Great things take time and great efforts, we should be willing to give it that if we wish to have something incredible in our life. Faith in any form gives us courage and strength to move forward even in hardest times. We must have faith that if we change something today in our life it is bound to reflect later or sooner in our circumstances as well. Faith gives us courage to get up again and again. For me, I know my God is in charge of my life and if I am doing what needs to be done with integrity, he is going to help me to get where I wish to go. The faith that God is going to bless me for every good intention of my heart, every help I offer to others, every honest effort I took to fulfill my dreams, for my kindness, for my good deeds, for my loyalty, for my prayers and gratitude and most importantly for my faith in him. This faith helps me live a peaceful life and gives me strength to fight the toughest battles of my life. I know what pain is but I don’t know what suffering is now because I feel the pain and let it go. There is no room and time for suffering over same pain again and again now. I learned to visit past sometimes to tally how far I have come but not to get stuck there anymore. I learnt to live in present moment. I don’t have words to express how liberating if feels. I wish everyone could feel the feeling of lightness, peace and unending river of joy flowing through you. My strong faith in myself, my actions and the almighty God are the sources of it. The world today is in dire need of finding that faith most importantly to get rid of mental health problems. We all should be rooted strong in faith to tackle biggest storms of life. Doesn’t matter much where your faith lies, whom or what you choose to follow but what matters most is that you should have strong rooted faith.
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