Going through life without complaining

I have realized how much we can complain. You cannot imagine how much sometimes we painfully say we do not have a thing; sometimes we say we have too much or little of this or that. You see the other day while thinking of the many times I’ve fallen into the trap of openly showing my displeasure with what I own and what I do not, I realized that I complained of things that are either of little significance in life or if they were, they are not a big deal. We can do without them and still become successful. I mean they needed not worry us too much.

Sometimes we complain that we have not as the talent a friend has, we are not loved as they are by their parents, girlfriends and friends. Other times, its we have no great names as they have, we do not live in a big house as they do, we are not performing well in our careers/academics as they are, our body is not fit as ‘theirs’, we are too young or old to do a project or we’ve no money to buy a luxury. We have ‘no opportunities’ like they have, we claim.

Sometimes we complain because we are jealous of what others have and we want to be like them.

These things of course are important to us. I only have a problem when complaining direct what I think, dream, talk and do always. Complaining will become a problem to us when we note that it becomes a hindrance to us to start thinking and appreciating what we already have than what we do not have. When we fail to take care of what we have and work with it because we are complaining all the time that will become our outdoing.

Complaining always close our eyes so that we cannot see that indeed we have too much than what we don’t to make it in life. Complaining is as bad as saying that what we have is not as good. It makes us accuse ourselves of ‘inabilities’ to do something. It makes us want to be aggressive for nothing trying to be someone else. We think we are inferior because of what we do not possess. And this is life, where everyone has a unique gifting so that we can make a society functional. We are made to complement each other. Why should we complain and want to be somebody/something other than what we are? When we complain, we are simply saying deep within ourselves that someone can do my role better than me and I can do their role better than themselves. Yet we do not have their skill or talent.

When we go through life without complaining, we become happier to pursue our dreams. We become contented to run our course knowing we can be excellent and win. We run our race and are victorious in our terrain.