Life is Unfair (?)

Zachary Afif
Feb 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Everyday,

Every minute,

Every second,

as time passed by, we surround ourselves with success and failure, with advantages and disadvantages.

When we worked our tail off for our big dreams, suddenly things happened and the dream that we worked hard resulted for nothing. Nothing. No accomplishment for our hard work as there are nothing happened.

When we try to love someone so hard that we let ourselves become vulnerable. That we used to gave out everything we have until it drained us out. Until there is nothing left anymore to give. But the other person keep unsatisfied and not recognized our effort.

Or when you try to compete with others with all of our disadvantages, that we worked hard to overcome. Suddenly, the other guys just come and overcome your hard work with ease.

Everything above seems unfair or unequal or whatever you may call it. we keep asking ourselves “Why? is the effort is not enough? what else i have to give out? i give out everything”. At this point, one thought come in mind, “hard work or effort is directly proportional with result”. But why the reality isn’t as easy as the saying? why we keep failing even after we worked hard?

Maybe.

Just maybe, we just see something from our perspective. Maybe, we just wanted to met all our expectation. MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, that failure is not that bad, that it is the best thing cam happen to us.

Sometimes, or many times or maybe all the time, we think about what should happened. Not think about “what can i do now? “.

Failure, makes us who we are now, it is who we are, nothing can change that. WE FAIL. YOU FAIL.

So what we should do?

Accept.

Don’t act as a tough guy, let ourself grieve and accept the pain. It may be hard and very painful. But, we need to went through this.

You are not alone, ask your friends or your family. You need everyone you can get to overcome the pain. Keep improving yourself, don’t let failures or breakup limiting you from your potential.

Your life is more than just a trophy or a ranking or a lover or a medals or moneys. Your life is too precious too waste for such short termed goals.

From what is left, accept the truth, assess the circumstances, and improvise, make the best out of the situation.

Then, only then, we can start living our life.

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