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Life is like a hospital room



Yesterday I went to a hospital. I was there with my aunty. She went there for a regular checkup at the cardiac center. People were husting everywhere, searching for their internal or external calmness. While I was sitting on the sofa waiting for our turn, realized many things. Some people were facing the true harsh reality of life. And some of them were there to give them ease while searching for a doctor or making registration sheets. While I was sitting on the sofa I realized that people of my surrounding are what exactly does. I was quite and stood watching and to capture every single moment in my eyes, back to the memory. I was there for about 2 and half an hour and I just saw the loss of hope everywhere. There was NO sense of life. I went there healthier but when I was about exit I realized that I may also suffer from a disease called pessimism. Being a patient, I started to realize that people who are sick, nurses, doctors and everyone in the medical the community have got so stuck in this notion that a hospital room is this cold sterile, white place where we go to be sick, and that that’s all that it can be. And we get so stuck in that we cannot see the possibility of life. We can’t see what we can make out of it. We don’t see what we can do with it. Our lives are like empty hospital rooms. We get so stuck in the idea that “Oh. It’s supposed to be good or bad. If we’re sick, then it’s cold, it's sterile, and we just have to live with it like that.’’ We don’t let our self-realize, we don’t let our self-see, we can make that hospital room beautiful. We can make our lives into a piece of art. We all have that ability. We all have that capability as human beings to turn these empty hospital rooms, to turn these lives into something really beautiful and productive. We look at people who are sick and we pity them because we believe that their sickness means that their life has to be inherently less joyous than everyone else’s. Life is not going to stop unfolding itself to you just because you’re sick, or because you aren’t how you think it’s supposed to be. We’re waiting to be healthy, we’re waiting to be wealthy. We’re waiting to find our passion, We’re are waiting to find our true love, BEFORE we actually start living. Instead of looking for everything we have, looking at all the pain, looking at all the sadness, looking at the beauty, and making something with that. 
That’s how innovation happens. Innovation doesn’t happen because there’s some person who’s in a great circumstance, and everything is going well. Innovation happens because of suffering, and when we suppress that suffering, when we teach people who are sick, that because “you’re sick you don’t have anything to give to the world, you don’t have enough courage to do something productive”. So I want to encourage you all, next time you meet someone who is suffering, who is in pain, instead of shutting them down, instead of pitying them, I want you to think “I bet their life is so beautiful.”. Really... look at them, and think, “I bet their life is so complex and beautiful.”. Follow the optimistic approach and do let them live their lives. Happiness is inside the tides of mind, not a prison of circumstances. Think positive and think about it...

                                                                                                                                Written by: Shams Abbas

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