Normally, we are happy to be living beings but have we ever wonder that are we living or surviving?
It can't be denied that we are familiar with ambience we are living. But it differs with our thoughts and acts that are we living or surviving.
Today, I came with a short story of a higher secondary student who was surviving than living.
There was a boy who joined college to study science after school leaving certificate. Basically, we Nepalese call 'college' to the higher secondary level. That boy was talented and topper in his respective school. Even after he joined in the college, he was known to be the topper. I simply refer him as an icon of his class. I can't express his talent through my punctured English vocabulary but you can reckon how was he.
The boy seemed to be precocious and witty. Whenever the teacher starts to write questions of physics on the white board, that boy used to solve those mathematical problems beforehand. I was always wondering about him because those physics questions were not easy. Later, I knew that he wanted to be an engineer in the near future. And I always wished him to be a good engineer. But our life isn't in a bridle.
After he passed his higher secondary school with a good grade, he joined the university to study IT. When I heard about it, I thought this decision isn't at odds though he chose to study IT. As we know, we aren't in the control of our circumstances. And the same thing happened in his life. He had to drop the university and went aboard to be a chef because of the financial problem in his home. He gave up his dream to be an engineer. Simply I have to say that the achievement which he had got during his school and college days became the fiasco.
It is a baffled condition: most of the cases or problems happen in our life due to money or our renounce nature? And it happened with him too. He left hometown and his education to survive. Now, it seems like he is surviving than living.
Whenever I recall this story, I think we are more focused on surviving than living.
Basically, surviving means denying death and it focuses on staying away from hunger, thirst etc. whereas living focuses on doing things, on growing and achieving. While surviving centres around death and how not to die, living centres around the life and how to embrace life to the fullest.
I always have thought in my mind that everyone is surviving but only few people are living their life. Even a street dog is surviving but I think how we live that matters the most. Yes, it is true that not everyone is fortunate to elicit their dream and we have to bridle our life through our kismet.
This is the grave thought about living and surviving
It can't be denied that we are familiar with ambience we are living. But it differs with our thoughts and acts that are we living or surviving.
Today, I came with a short story of a higher secondary student who was surviving than living.
There was a boy who joined college to study science after school leaving certificate. Basically, we Nepalese call 'college' to the higher secondary level. That boy was talented and topper in his respective school. Even after he joined in the college, he was known to be the topper. I simply refer him as an icon of his class. I can't express his talent through my punctured English vocabulary but you can reckon how was he.
The boy seemed to be precocious and witty. Whenever the teacher starts to write questions of physics on the white board, that boy used to solve those mathematical problems beforehand. I was always wondering about him because those physics questions were not easy. Later, I knew that he wanted to be an engineer in the near future. And I always wished him to be a good engineer. But our life isn't in a bridle.
After he passed his higher secondary school with a good grade, he joined the university to study IT. When I heard about it, I thought this decision isn't at odds though he chose to study IT. As we know, we aren't in the control of our circumstances. And the same thing happened in his life. He had to drop the university and went aboard to be a chef because of the financial problem in his home. He gave up his dream to be an engineer. Simply I have to say that the achievement which he had got during his school and college days became the fiasco.
It is a baffled condition: most of the cases or problems happen in our life due to money or our renounce nature? And it happened with him too. He left hometown and his education to survive. Now, it seems like he is surviving than living.
Whenever I recall this story, I think we are more focused on surviving than living.
Basically, surviving means denying death and it focuses on staying away from hunger, thirst etc. whereas living focuses on doing things, on growing and achieving. While surviving centres around death and how not to die, living centres around the life and how to embrace life to the fullest.
I always have thought in my mind that everyone is surviving but only few people are living their life. Even a street dog is surviving but I think how we live that matters the most. Yes, it is true that not everyone is fortunate to elicit their dream and we have to bridle our life through our kismet.
This is the grave thought about living and surviving
