Are you fixated your on Problems and Worries?
You know with increasing competition and sophisticated technology ever helping to increase our productivity, we are beginning to handle more concurrent things in life today. Even kids these days are not spared, they have increasing pressure from school, additional tuition to supplement their learnings in school, piano, violin, taekwando, etc. lessons to complement their academic life. Working adults are handling more projects at work and have to effectively manage their personal lives and provide for their families, take care of kids, etc. It’s no wonder that more people are getting depression these days.
There is an increasing tendency for one to be fixated on problems and worries. One of the issues about a fast-paced developed society is that while the society progresses rapidly in the material sense, many individuals are unable to keep up psychologically. That is, many people are beginning to lose sight of what’s important to them in Life. Is it really worth it to be chasing after material success (knowing that you can’t take it with you six feet underground)? Isn’t there more to Life?
Yet most people hardly find time to reflect on these issues because there’re simply too many problems and worries to focus on. Will the project run smoothly tomorrow? Will I mess up my school work? How am I going to face that angry customer? Why does God give me so many problems? etc…. and the list goes on.
What I believe is that no matter how much we do, we can never totally eradicate problems. Because our time is limited, our attention span is limited – there will definitely be some things that we will overlook as we try to find our balance in Life. This is when “problems” start to occur and worries start to flood in.
It’s almost as if our Creator planned for this to happen. I believe we were designed to make mistakes and have problems in Life. If we get too fixated on problems and worries, we paralyse ourselves and miss the whole point of living. In this case, I suggest that we should remove our own imaginary shackles and redefine our notions of what Life is about. Problems help us to grow – we might not be able to solve all of them and create a perfect Life because maybe that’s not the objective. What’s important is not the solving of the problem per se, but the process of solving – that helps us to grow physically, mentally and spiritually. And that’s what truly matters mosts, IMHO.