Just came up with some quote "Life is a race, but don't take it as a race, just watch the others run and wait"
Nevertheless we all are like runners on a race track. Everyone keeps on running for their targets always competing with the others and trying to beat them up. They only realize it in the end that it has not been worth at all. This reminds me a part of a song "Won the race but lost your mind, was it worth it afterall....." (I'm no superman - Scrubs theme song) which surely questions your mind letting you to find out answers for that.
According to my experiences so far the answer that I came up is "Just watch others run and wait" concept. It does not mean that we should just give up all our things and watch other people succeed, what I try to give out through this is that we shouldn't be living our lives to pass up some exams getting the best marks or of trying to earn a penny more than your neighbor. Never try to compare yourself with any other thinking that you are better than him or he is better than you. The moment you think like that you have already made your life a race by trying to keep up your BOSS position or by trying to beat up the other. When we take up the whole society atleast 99.99% are exactly like that. They always try to beat up others and Stand Out from the others.Never live your life or do your work with that very intention. Have a clear target and work for that in a very relaxing manner.
One experience that I'd like to share with you all is my previous school exam. Before, always I worked with the very sense that "I should be the class first, I should be the class first", there were times that I succeeded in that but most of the time, I failed. But the previous time(applying this very concept) I did not think anything like that I just studied relaxingly while the bunch of nerds in our class were studying like hell. Anyhow I became the first.
I'm not telling that being the first is gonna make you the best but what I'm trying to tell here is that you can do much better in whatever your doing if you work on with the NO RACE concept.
Finally I'm gonna stop keeping these thoughts in your mind.Also try to remember this as well,
Never worry about the delay of your success compared to the others because the construction of a pyramid takes more time than an ordinary building.(Something that a friend of mine told me sometime before)
Got more stuff in mind , but me late for lunch. Hope 'you reader' got atleast something outta this to your life. :) :)
Cheers :)
-Irosha de Silva
