How to make most out of your life Many of us complain that life is dull. We are bored and frustrated. In spite of all its wonders, modern technology has not come with an answer to this.
Money is now earned in ways which demand few creative skills and offer little in the shape of pride and satisfaction.
If you want your life to be interesting, what matters is yourself. It depends on the kind of person you are inside. In the eyes of the world you could be failure, although you might still be living an interesting life.
Conversely, you can reach wordly success, but end up completely bored with yourself and the life at large.
Of course, the reverse is also true. Unsuccessful people are often bitter, lonely, depressed, frustrated and bored, while many successful people go on to live to a ripe old age, full of honour and interests.
What we make of life, whether it is interesting or dull, depends on the individual himself. It is important to make the most of yourself as a whole person, so that the passing years find you happy and content with your lot. :
Talk to anyone who complains that he is bored and the first thing that striks you about him is his vagueness about what he likes doing best. It is hard to understand how people today grow up like that, when there are so many opportunities for them to explore, experiment and learn.
But we have to be purposeful. Too many of us remain waiting on the sidelines expecting other people to do things for us. Usually, we are quick to find reasons for not being interested in any of their suggestions, chiefly because we cannot be bothered to make an effort ourselves.
The most satisfying interest is something which is easily and always available, so that we can take it up and put it down when we feel like it.
We should aim at having at least three things we really enjoy doing, one of which we can be done entirely on our own. When we are able to enjoy our own company, we are less dependent on others.
We are no longer scared of being left on our own to amuse ourselves. You will be surprised what a difference this makes in having an interesting life, rather than spending your time pretending to be interested.
It also helps you to be more relaxed in your relationships with people, less prone to become tired, impatient, intense, irritable and fed up.
Ideally, our other interest should be those which we share with other people. They can range widely. For like a sport, a cultural subject, a handicraft, as long as they encourage you to get along with other people, doing with them something you like doing.
When we enjoy what we are doing, we forget to be self conscious. It is much easier to talk and make friends. We are more relaxed so that it is easier for people to talk to us and get to know us.
If you want to make life interesting, you will not worry about what others think about your interests. Members of the family and our friends may be critical, even scornful, but we have to be honest with ourselves.
For example, it is useless pretending to be keen on show business of fashion designing and advertising, because it is fashionable and regarded as rather high class, Or, conversely, to give the impression of being a sporting type, if your real inclination is for poetry and classical music. Never mind other people and what they like and imagine what you should like. It is your life. You must decide for yourself and, if necessary, be brave enough to go alone. We make our life interesting, when we are always learning. Some of us stop learning once we leave school. Or we will only exert when we see a chance to earn more money.
Some of us are not really interested in anybody, or anything, but ourselves, So that anything we learn is merely incidental to winning attention and getting what we want. In order to be interesting for other people, as well as find interest in life for ourselves, we have to be outward looking. We have to be interested in other people and things outside ourselves.
We have to be people who ask questions, read, look, listen, who do not mind being shown and being told and who are always on the look out for opportunities to acquire more knowledge and experience.
The desire to be superior to others is a common handicap. If you are concerned with holding you end up, you do not have the time to spare, to be genuinely interested in what is going on. You are either afflicted with anxiety to do everything right and never make mistakes, or you want to be the boss.
Life is more interesting when we like to have a go, whether or not we do it wrong. If you do not care who the bass is, you are not in competition with anybody.
You are more easy and relaxed about it and people feel the same about you. They are more likely to be cooperative, willing to show and tell you and let you join in and try.
If you want to make you like interesting, see to it that you do not get into a rut. One of the best things about holidays is that they provide opportunities to break from the routine, in order to try something new and different.
Breaking the routine
In daily life, a reasonable degree of routine helps us select the essentials and tackle them in the easiest, quickest and most efficient way.
But be careful not to overdo it. Don't allow routine to rule you. Whenever possible, have change and do things differently.
Getting out of a routine is painful, but it pays to make the effort. Otherwise, we find it ripping us tightly, until every day becomes the same.Avoid allowing necessary chores. Like cleaning you vehicle and caring for plants to become a solemn ritual, performed at a set time.
Break your rules occasionally. Change things around. Eat in different places. Try different food. Visit places, where you will rub shoulders with different people, from different walk of life.
Above all, be extra careful not to close you mind. We do this when we refuse to have contact with anything which is strange and different, or when we refuse contact with anyone who displeases us.
We do it when we pre-judge people.
It is easy to cut ourselves from people and new developments and grow into ourselves. Life is a challenge. To make it interesting we have to face up to it as a whole, not just to those aspects which please us. Finally, we make life more interesting by being specially interested in people and trying to be kind to them. It is true that every man is an island. But we may still reach out to one another, offering our cooperation and help.
If you are bored, look around you. Do not close eyes and heart to the needs of others. In this lies a great opportunity for you to feel wanted and needed.
Those who are wanted can never find life uninteresting.
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