Harsh Reality
I bleed again…
The story started with my business partner saying that he will be going for a jog today. Finding that as a good idea, I told him that I will challenge him and will jog also despite the rain and a long day at work. Went back home and felt pretty lethargic but a promise is a promise and I went for my jog as agreed (with myself). Running on the wet floor and as I was running down a slope, I slipped and fell down which results in a deep cut on my knee. Blood starts to flow down and I have only completed half of the jogging journey.
There are 2 choices, one is to tell myself that I have injured myself and should take it lightly and walk back home through the short cut. The other is to face the fact that I have wounded myself but it is not going to kill me, I just have to jog back and dressed my wounds when I reached home. Upon my jogging journey back, I start to feel happy that I have taken the fall as I would not have been inspired to start another blog about life and determination. This story of the fall coincides with one of the philosophy that I have learnt in a book but has no inspiration to pen it down and this wound has gained me the inspiration to write the philosophy. And the philosophy is to “Face the harsh reality”
I understand that this is not a significant event to talk about harsh reality but I would like to use this as an example to illustrate human behavior. After taking the fall and continuing my jog, I realize that I have made a choice to continue not only my jog, I have strengthen my determination to meet my objective, I have not blame anyone or anything for my fall and I have treat the fall with rationality as I know that it is just an event and a wound that will heal in due time. The moment after the fall is not a time to complain and curse but rather a time to pick myself up, face the facts and move on. Ignoring the temporal pain which will come to pass and not wasting time to meeting the objective, which is to finish the jog and dress the wound fast upon reaching home.
To me, this incident is a reflection about life. A common incident similar to what life will throw at us. Some people will take a fall and take it in his stride, know what needs to be done at the moment, complete it and start dressing the wound when you have quality time to do so. These people face the harsh reality post by life and understand that there is no point crying over spilled milk. Another type of people will start cursing why they are so stupid as to run when it is raining, curse the wet road, indulge in self pity and give themselves the excuse to rest and break away from their objectives. People who indulge in self pity starts slowing down as they give themselves excuse to be lenient to themselves since they are injured. Some even tell themselves that they shouldn’t do stupid things like this again, indulging in risk adverse behaviors. However they forget that time, people and opportunity do not stop for people. You can lament, you can slow down and you can stop doing it again but if you are defeated by these obstacles, you have failed the test that heaven has post to you. In the micro perspective, you have failed your objectives, in the macro perspective you have allowed yourself to be weak in character because you are lenient to yourself.
I chose to face the facts as 1- the wound will still bleed irregardless if I walk or run. 2- I don’t like to allow myself to be weak by indulging in self pity. 3- It will be better for me to dress the wound at home and hence jogging back is a faster way to take care of my wound. I felt that ignoring the wound and diverting my attention away from it before I reached home is a better choice as I can’t do anything to it when I am outside. It actually carries the message that when a person met with a challenge that will cripple them from advancing, sometimes it is better to endure the pain and move on, only rest at the appropriate time and place once you have finished what that needs to be done as by then not only have you finished what you have been entrusted to do, you have also instilled confidence in the people who believe in you that you will not be beaten by the harsh reality of life and also after the task is finished, you will have better quality time to dress your wound. A wound or an event in life can hurt you but it shouldn’t cripple you and one should bear the pain, move on to cross the challenge, complete your task in life and become stronger in mentality. Putting it in a macro perspective, if your task in life is to be happy, you must learn to endure the sad things that have happened and move on to meet your objective in being happy and when you are in a positive mode then can you dress the wound positively.
People who are weak in character escape from reality, blame everything and use the incident as an excuse to indulge in self pity and escape from what they are tasked to do. People who are strong in character accept and face the reality and complete what they are tasked to do. Some events or people can hurt you but there are also other events and people that builds you that you should work hard for. Why let the events and people affect you from moving on to meet good events further in the journey, and also channel energy to bring more joy to people who loves you. Hence I will close the blog by saying that I will still run in similar condition in the future and not be daunted by a fall, keeping in mind that if I fall again, 1st- it should not be at the same spot, 2nd- it will not be for the same reason 3rd- I will learn from the lesson, take it positively and continue moving on like I have done today ^^
Let not the harsh reality beat you down, rather conquer it and use them to build you up
~ James Tan ~
The story started with my business partner saying that he will be going for a jog today. Finding that as a good idea, I told him that I will challenge him and will jog also despite the rain and a long day at work. Went back home and felt pretty lethargic but a promise is a promise and I went for my jog as agreed (with myself). Running on the wet floor and as I was running down a slope, I slipped and fell down which results in a deep cut on my knee. Blood starts to flow down and I have only completed half of the jogging journey.
There are 2 choices, one is to tell myself that I have injured myself and should take it lightly and walk back home through the short cut. The other is to face the fact that I have wounded myself but it is not going to kill me, I just have to jog back and dressed my wounds when I reached home. Upon my jogging journey back, I start to feel happy that I have taken the fall as I would not have been inspired to start another blog about life and determination. This story of the fall coincides with one of the philosophy that I have learnt in a book but has no inspiration to pen it down and this wound has gained me the inspiration to write the philosophy. And the philosophy is to “Face the harsh reality”
I understand that this is not a significant event to talk about harsh reality but I would like to use this as an example to illustrate human behavior. After taking the fall and continuing my jog, I realize that I have made a choice to continue not only my jog, I have strengthen my determination to meet my objective, I have not blame anyone or anything for my fall and I have treat the fall with rationality as I know that it is just an event and a wound that will heal in due time. The moment after the fall is not a time to complain and curse but rather a time to pick myself up, face the facts and move on. Ignoring the temporal pain which will come to pass and not wasting time to meeting the objective, which is to finish the jog and dress the wound fast upon reaching home.
To me, this incident is a reflection about life. A common incident similar to what life will throw at us. Some people will take a fall and take it in his stride, know what needs to be done at the moment, complete it and start dressing the wound when you have quality time to do so. These people face the harsh reality post by life and understand that there is no point crying over spilled milk. Another type of people will start cursing why they are so stupid as to run when it is raining, curse the wet road, indulge in self pity and give themselves the excuse to rest and break away from their objectives. People who indulge in self pity starts slowing down as they give themselves excuse to be lenient to themselves since they are injured. Some even tell themselves that they shouldn’t do stupid things like this again, indulging in risk adverse behaviors. However they forget that time, people and opportunity do not stop for people. You can lament, you can slow down and you can stop doing it again but if you are defeated by these obstacles, you have failed the test that heaven has post to you. In the micro perspective, you have failed your objectives, in the macro perspective you have allowed yourself to be weak in character because you are lenient to yourself.
I chose to face the facts as 1- the wound will still bleed irregardless if I walk or run. 2- I don’t like to allow myself to be weak by indulging in self pity. 3- It will be better for me to dress the wound at home and hence jogging back is a faster way to take care of my wound. I felt that ignoring the wound and diverting my attention away from it before I reached home is a better choice as I can’t do anything to it when I am outside. It actually carries the message that when a person met with a challenge that will cripple them from advancing, sometimes it is better to endure the pain and move on, only rest at the appropriate time and place once you have finished what that needs to be done as by then not only have you finished what you have been entrusted to do, you have also instilled confidence in the people who believe in you that you will not be beaten by the harsh reality of life and also after the task is finished, you will have better quality time to dress your wound. A wound or an event in life can hurt you but it shouldn’t cripple you and one should bear the pain, move on to cross the challenge, complete your task in life and become stronger in mentality. Putting it in a macro perspective, if your task in life is to be happy, you must learn to endure the sad things that have happened and move on to meet your objective in being happy and when you are in a positive mode then can you dress the wound positively.
People who are weak in character escape from reality, blame everything and use the incident as an excuse to indulge in self pity and escape from what they are tasked to do. People who are strong in character accept and face the reality and complete what they are tasked to do. Some events or people can hurt you but there are also other events and people that builds you that you should work hard for. Why let the events and people affect you from moving on to meet good events further in the journey, and also channel energy to bring more joy to people who loves you. Hence I will close the blog by saying that I will still run in similar condition in the future and not be daunted by a fall, keeping in mind that if I fall again, 1st- it should not be at the same spot, 2nd- it will not be for the same reason 3rd- I will learn from the lesson, take it positively and continue moving on like I have done today ^^
Let not the harsh reality beat you down, rather conquer it and use them to build you up
~ James Tan ~
posted by James at 12:32 AM
2 Comments:
So which type do i belong to?
I fell down a couple of times - real hard - in the past few years. Yes, I get up, I move on with life. But yet somewhere inside me, I can never get over it. I pretend to move on - but neevr actually did.
What can of person am I? Weak? Escapist? Sentimental?
I cant decide for you what kind of person you are but I just felt that perhaps you have move on like I have continue jogging but what you might have forgotten is to dress your wound.
I think you might still be living at the moment where you wounded yourself. Continuing not only means physically moving on but spiritually you have to allow your heart to acknowledge the hurt, heal it and move on spiritually.
Healing means that you have to acknowledge that it is a wound and you have to make effort to dress up the wound making it heal in time but the prerequisite is, you must start dressing the wound to allow it to heal with no negative effects. =)
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