Life is a wonderful gift to be enjoyed! The purpose of life is to enjoy it! To enjoy life is to experience the pure pleasure in being alive, the bliss of existing. It is to put joy into the moments of your life.
Ultimately, life is how you make it. It’s your choice how you live it. You can crave gossip and drama, or you can have no worries and remain chilled. I learned that everyone has different ideas of living a good life. Some people find happiness in riches, others in things less physical. More so, people seek to make themselves happy, and others seek to make people happy, which leads to being happy themselves. There are so many models and paths that will lead to happiness, but all have the same solution: that is, if you're happy with yourself, you are living a good life. The most important quality of living a good life is happiness. I personally think that to live a good life, one must avoid excesses of all kinds and create a state of contentment, satisfaction and joy.
My experience, in my opinion, helped me achieve all my good traits and get rid of my bad ones. Taught me that I do not live alone in this world, so there is no need for selfishness, and that I am not immortal, so I have to live a good life spreading love, peace, and help others if I’m able to. It also taught me that all mankind is the same and that race and beliefs do not make us any different; it is our actions and behaviours.
A life with a purpose can be considered a good life. A purpose gives meaning to life and helps us to overcome the various obstacles along our journey. Life is accompanied by loss, pain, hardship, urgent and unsatisfied desires, failed efforts and difficult relationships.
One should develop the habit of forgiving. By this, one can lead to significant personal benefits, including improved mental and physical health, a greater sense of peace and the ability to move forward in life. Always keep in mind, the act of striving for forgiveness can bring a profound sense of inner peace and is a sign of personal strength, not weakness.
So, it takes great insight to know how to find enjoyment through all of it and joy in the midst of it. Joy doesn’t cost anything. It’s available to everyone at any moment. You can’t buy it, or store it. Another person can’t teach it to you and you can’t learn it from a book or pick it up at a workshop or seminar. It’s learning to let go.
Joy is in the consciousness that fills every waking moment. It is in the beauty of ordinary moments and the bearing of other people’s sorrows. It is in sharing oneself with another.
In life many times circumstances are beyond our control but one must keep going. Life is like a roller coaster with many twists and turns, but in the end, you enjoy every minute of it. Leading your own life means taking personal responsibility for your choices, goals and happiness, rather than passively following others or blaming external factors. At the end of the day, you have not come to plan and save with a lot of provisions for your children and grandchildren by killing and fulfilling your desires. Each one has to plan his/her life. Ultimately, leading your own life is about making a meaningful impact, cultivating strong relationships and living with purpose and integrity. One must remember to do what is most important in life, which is to be happy and to significantly enjoy it.
In conclusion, I would like to state that, "The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it's all that matters."
Ishwar Deshmukh
The writer works at Indian School Salalah, Sultanate of Oman
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