If you live by imitation, you will die in frustration
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IF YOU LIVE BY IMITATION, YOU WILL DIE IN FRUSTRATION.
Someone wisely observed, "life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they are trying to copy others not realizing that everyone has a different question paper ". This is nothing, but the truth about life. Life is meant to be easy and not extremely difficult, as many of us have been made to believe over the years. But the way and manner in which we live our lives has so much changed our orientation and understanding about life.
God did not just create us for the sole purpose of being in this world, No! He has a unique purpose and predetermined plan for which he created you and I, and he intricately designed us to fulfil that purpose. He has also built in us the manual needed for us to effectively carry out our life operations. And that is contained in our instincts and natural proclivities. We are all intrinsically designed to function differently and in different areas of life. We are never meant to be functionally the same, as God never looked at anybody else to create us; rather, he created us unique and different. However, life becomes difficult the moment you decide to live someone else's life, neglecting your Own life.
Many of us are being frustrated today because we are busy trying to live other people's life. We daily live our lives by trials and errors. The truth is that you are not designed to be like another person, never try to be like one! Whenever you are trying to imitate anybody else, you are merely acting against your functionality. *And subjecting your configuration - the way you are made up - to alteration, by imitation, will result to utter frustration.*
This, in no doubt, constitute the major reasons why many people don't find joy and fulfilment in life. Your joy and fulfilment in life is tied to the fulfillment your unique purpose, and not anybody else's. Trying to live someone else's life, no matter how luxurious it is, will never bring you joy. And the worst part is that your creator would not be happy, because you are not living up to the task he has given you; rather you are looking at someone else's task. No matter how hard you try to be like someone else, you can never be the original person. The best commendation you can get is that: *"you are like him "*; not *"you are him"*you can only best be the 2nd. so why spend the whole of your life trying to be second. Where as, you have your own life to live that can afford you the opportunity to be first, because what you have is peculiar to you only.
Oh, you may be thinking jealously about that friend of yours who has more degrees than you; more possession than you have ever acquired; greater success than you have ever attained; greater achievements than you have made, etc. Why not focus on your own life so that you also can develop yourself to become the envy of another person. The fact that your friend is making it is an evidence that you can also make it. He's fulfilling his own life and destiny. So, you too, rather than imitating him, take time to fulfil yours. If you are focusing on the achievements and success of others, you stand the risk of loosing Your Own potentials for success. Do you know that the time you spend looking at others can be leveraged upon to bring out the best in yourself. You are the best and original version of yourself. You need to understand that the only person you can work on, to yield maximum productivity and overwhelming fulfillment, is you. No other person can be you; they can only be like you. If you take time to invest widely into yourself, you will soon become the admiration of others.
we are to complement each other and not to compete with each other. we are to fulfil different purposes, so why the competition? God did not create us to compete with one another but to complete one another . Focusing, foolishly, on others only renders you unproductive, as your life's potentials are being underutilized - if at all you are utilizing it. Listen, my brother/sister, instead of competing with others, compete with yourself to increase your productivity and improve your performance. Take time to make yourself valuable. Sit down with your life and take it very serious, because you only can live it, and the opportunity you have to live it; never spend it on living another person's life.
Remember the parable of a man and his servants, told by our Lord Jesus Christ. Each of the servants were given different amount of talents, but the same instruction - *"occupy till I come"*. They were all required to trade with whatever was given to them and none of them was expected to produce the result of others. The one with 2 talents was not expected to produce the result of the one with 5 talents. Each was required to produce his own result The same thing is also applicable to our lives. We have been given different talents - purposes, callings, careers, passions, visions, etc. And we are all expected to trade with it: maximize it. But we are not expected to produce the result of out friends.
Focus on yourself and not others! Never imitate any body, and never try to live someone else's life. Face your life. Begin the process of fulfilling your destiny now! Your life is too precious to be underutilized. Remember that: if you live by imitation, you will die in frustration.
God bless you
© OLAKUNLE PAUL
IF YOU LIVE BY IMITATION, YOU WILL DIE IN FRUSTRATION.
Someone wisely observed, "life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they are trying to copy others not realizing that everyone has a different question paper ". This is nothing, but the truth about life. Life is meant to be easy and not extremely difficult, as many of us have been made to believe over the years. But the way and manner in which we live our lives has so much changed our orientation and understanding about life.
God did not just create us for the sole purpose of being in this world, No! He has a unique purpose and predetermined plan for which he created you and I, and he intricately designed us to fulfil that purpose. He has also built in us the manual needed for us to effectively carry out our life operations. And that is contained in our instincts and natural proclivities. We are all intrinsically designed to function differently and in different areas of life. We are never meant to be functionally the same, as God never looked at anybody else to create us; rather, he created us unique and different. However, life becomes difficult the moment you decide to live someone else's life, neglecting your Own life.
Many of us are being frustrated today because we are busy trying to live other people's life. We daily live our lives by trials and errors. The truth is that you are not designed to be like another person, never try to be like one! Whenever you are trying to imitate anybody else, you are merely acting against your functionality. *And subjecting your configuration - the way you are made up - to alteration, by imitation, will result to utter frustration.*
This, in no doubt, constitute the major reasons why many people don't find joy and fulfilment in life. Your joy and fulfilment in life is tied to the fulfillment your unique purpose, and not anybody else's. Trying to live someone else's life, no matter how luxurious it is, will never bring you joy. And the worst part is that your creator would not be happy, because you are not living up to the task he has given you; rather you are looking at someone else's task. No matter how hard you try to be like someone else, you can never be the original person. The best commendation you can get is that: *"you are like him "*; not *"you are him"*you can only best be the 2nd. so why spend the whole of your life trying to be second. Where as, you have your own life to live that can afford you the opportunity to be first, because what you have is peculiar to you only.
Oh, you may be thinking jealously about that friend of yours who has more degrees than you; more possession than you have ever acquired; greater success than you have ever attained; greater achievements than you have made, etc. Why not focus on your own life so that you also can develop yourself to become the envy of another person. The fact that your friend is making it is an evidence that you can also make it. He's fulfilling his own life and destiny. So, you too, rather than imitating him, take time to fulfil yours. If you are focusing on the achievements and success of others, you stand the risk of loosing Your Own potentials for success. Do you know that the time you spend looking at others can be leveraged upon to bring out the best in yourself. You are the best and original version of yourself. You need to understand that the only person you can work on, to yield maximum productivity and overwhelming fulfillment, is you. No other person can be you; they can only be like you. If you take time to invest widely into yourself, you will soon become the admiration of others.
we are to complement each other and not to compete with each other. we are to fulfil different purposes, so why the competition? God did not create us to compete with one another but to complete one another . Focusing, foolishly, on others only renders you unproductive, as your life's potentials are being underutilized - if at all you are utilizing it. Listen, my brother/sister, instead of competing with others, compete with yourself to increase your productivity and improve your performance. Take time to make yourself valuable. Sit down with your life and take it very serious, because you only can live it, and the opportunity you have to live it; never spend it on living another person's life.
Remember the parable of a man and his servants, told by our Lord Jesus Christ. Each of the servants were given different amount of talents, but the same instruction - *"occupy till I come"*. They were all required to trade with whatever was given to them and none of them was expected to produce the result of others. The one with 2 talents was not expected to produce the result of the one with 5 talents. Each was required to produce his own result The same thing is also applicable to our lives. We have been given different talents - purposes, callings, careers, passions, visions, etc. And we are all expected to trade with it: maximize it. But we are not expected to produce the result of out friends.
Focus on yourself and not others! Never imitate any body, and never try to live someone else's life. Face your life. Begin the process of fulfilling your destiny now! Your life is too precious to be underutilized. Remember that: if you live by imitation, you will die in frustration.
God bless you
© OLAKUNLE PAUL
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