Human beings, the most fragile and the most powerful
creature. We have got a very flexible nature. We are a creature with highest
degree of tolerance. We survive in cruel winter and we manage to make our way
through scorching heat of summer. We get used to sufferings and without even
knowing, they become part of our lives. In Pakistan, daily 8 hour load-shedding
feels terrible in the beginning but then we get used to it and if some day a
miracle happens and there is no power breakup, we feel as if something is
missing. We ask each other “Is everything OK?”
“Ghalib” says in his poetry that calamity becomes
nothing if you get used to it. I have suffered to such a great extent that I don’t
feel anything now. In fact he explained it so well that there is no need of
further explanation.
But is this ability to mold yourself according to
circumstances and environment good for you? I have two opinions about it and
you will find them contradictory. At the end, ball will be in your court.
First one is that getting used to troubles is a good thing.
It makes you immune to sufferings and makes you able to survive in your
circumstances. It takes away your tears and makes you able to smile in pain.
Ans in a way it makes you strong too. When you get used to big troubles, little
worries don’t bother you.
Second opinion is it’s a very bad thing as it snatches the
ability to resist from you. Others make you suffer and you let them do it. You don’t
complain. You don’t resist. You never even think about the possibility of changing
the circumstances. You get used to compromises. It makes you permanently
silent. You never raise slogans of freedom. It makes you forever slave and
forever miserable.
The important thing is how you utilize your ability to be
stretched and molded. You are the one who is to decide when you have to get
yourself molded to the circumstances and when you need to change your
circumstances. Its all up to you. You are driver of your own life so you have to
take turns wisely. Don’t let others fool you and make you a forever miserable
person, and don’t let your circumstances make you a forever crying and complaining person.