I Believe

I believe your achievements in life are 50% your effort, 50% Gods plan for you. That when you fail, it can be either because you didn’t try hard enough, or it was just never meant to be. Trying to figure out which was which is the hard part.

I believe that friends come and go. Precious few stick around.. But you never know who they are, until everyone else has left. At that moment, you discover who had stayed by your side all along, and who you had unwittingly abandoned. Some friendships die because they left. Some, because you did.

I believe that as you grow older, you realize more and more just how little you know. The arrogance of youth must in time mellow into the humility of age. A smart man will admit to knowing plenty. But a wise man will admit to knowing nothing. Wisdom is having the mind of a sage and the heart of a child.

I believe that regret is sometimes a good thing. It teaches our hearts to be humble; to acknowledge that we screw up….. all the time. That there is always a part of us that requires overcoming.. be it pride, complacency, arrogance or fear. Regret is the emotional scar that reminds us we are a flawed and needy people. And the things we need most are this; forgiveness aplenty, love in abundance.

I believe that love is love is the most powerful force in the universe. It doesn’t put food on the table. It has no trading value. It doesn’t remove suffering. But love softens hearts, comforts and gives hope. Love gives meaning to suffering. Love gives meaning to life. ‘I love you’ is the most yearned after sentence in our lives. It’s high time we say it more often to the ones we love.

I believe that truth, honesty and integrity will always win in the long run, even if cheating, lying and deceiving may get you ahead faster and further initially. And even if by the end of your life, you lose out to dishonest people, God sees what you have done and hopefully so do the people in your life.

I believe that everything that happens, happens for a reason. From the people we meet, to the friends we make, the success we gain, to the failures we encounter, the words we say, to the things we learn, the journeys we make, to the places we go, the way we were brought up, to the person we are today…. Everything has a reason. Most people only find that reason in hindsight. Some never find it. But believe it or not, here are the two reasons for everything – to discover yourself, then to discover God.

What do you believe?