Friday, March 29, 2024 | Ramadan 18, 1445 H
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EDITOR IN CHIEF- ABDULLAH BIN SALIM AL SHUEILI

What’s unfair to them, life or the people?

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By Abdulaziz Al Jahdhami — Every human being is looking for happy life with decent living standards. It’s everyone’s wish. However, each one of us is pursuing the dream his/ her own way. Some are in a hurry to get the easy life. On the other hand, others are a bit slow and careful in reaching their destination. Possibly, it’s a matter of chasing their dreams based on their priorities in life. After all, happiness is what everyone is after in life.


On the career front, for instance, there are people who think about changing jobs every now and then. That’s how they gain more experience in life. In contrast, there are those who long to have any kind of job just to make a living. On the contrary, there are those elderly people who have had enough experience and faced challenges in life. They look forward to the days of retirement and rest after long years of employment.


Everyone has a different interest these days. Depending on what each one of us does, attitudes and mindset are formed. However, to each one of those three different types of people, life is being unfair.


They are not happy with what they have got or what they are currently doing to make a living. They feel life is unfair as they have not had good opportunities.


For job-seekers, life has not been fair in terms of not getting the job opportunities they were dreaming of.


As for the retired or those about-to-retire, they regret the old days when they had to make sacrifices. Likewise, they could be unhappy with the compensation they receive on retirement. Retirees might believe the end-of-service reward and compensation is unjust to them.


It’s all based on your employer, your job, your gross salary and the number of years of employment. Eventually, it’s one’s luck and fate for what he/ she gets in life. Everyone should have faith and satisfaction to accept what he/ she is granted. But it’s human’s nature that they would never be happy with what they get.


This is not always the case with people, but sometimes they come to a stage of depression or disappointment due to an unpleasant incident or a failure. People’s feelings and are mostly behind the type of attitudes and beliefs they express in different situations.


Sometimes they blame other people, colleagues, friends or family members for whatever feelings or attitudes they have. Not only that, they feel others are being unfair to them and they are the reason behind their failures or disappointments at work or personal life.


Regardless of what happens, it’s only us who will face the music whether we accept it or not. Therefore, we should look at the positive side of whatever we experience. There is always a learning lesson behind it.


We will get it sooner or later, so let’s be positive about every challenge we face and take the most of its lessons. Therefore, never ever put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.


— aljahdhami22@gmail.com


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