A different perspective
Life is gift under which we can see, hear, smell, smile, feel, enjoy and cry. Therefore talking about this topic in certain written words/ sentences is I think not possible for me. Rather I will try to note down my little expression about this great blessing here.
Life is an exam with the starting and ending time, and we are participants involved in it. There are also sub exams for which we are clearly given direction and guidance through which we can prevent ourselves from failures and sufferings to some extent.
These sufferings partially contrived and uncontrived. But anyway we have to deal with it in some way as we believe we will reap what we will saw here in this world/ life.
We need an organized content, context and instructor to go through the examination of certain subject generally. The same goes with the exam that is been taken by life but it has no instructor as life play a role of teacher by itself.
In general exams our performance is measured against specific set standards against which we are announced with results always “Pass” or “Fail”. But with life there is no such thing as pass or fail there is one thing and that is learning and getting experience after experience and this process goes on.
Generally our artificial man made exams only have two (02) or three (03) forms in which it may be taken i.e. sometime multiple choice questions or may be in the form of question with detail answers, sometime may be in the form of case study solution/ elaboration.
But it is not the same in real life exams as it comes unexpected and with different forms and we don’t know what is next? Nor we know exactly about the specific type of exam we are participating in. therefore in life we need to be more honest, loyal and be someone with great patience.
Life is full of choices it is totally dependent on us that which one we use, how and why i.e. we have choice of being truthful or liar, we have choice of being honest or being biased; we have choice of being loyal or treacherous. We have choice of being real or cheater, we have choice of being lover or hatter, we have choice of being kind or being unkind/ mean.
Therefore always remain more conscious in making your choice while dealing with someone because you need to be well aware of the post results of that choice as well as the long term reward you will find in return.
For example Getting prize from your boss for being loyal to him/ her (tangible) or sometime get appreciated for being on time from your HR manager (Intangible/non monetary). This is also great if one receive this but the reward also weigh high of getting known for some attributes in life like honest, loyal and trustworthy etc.
At the end I will conclude that life is always grateful and joyful if it is spent with defined code of conduct. Ups and downs are always there as life itself is the combination of struggles, hustles, pains, happiness, celebrations, successes, achievements and unlimited blessings; keep remember do not violate nor consider any of the blessed blessings light.