Stop whining and do something

People who incessantly complain about how life is unfair and that how unhappy they are with people who supposedly live a very charmed life should just all shut up and/or give themselves one tight slap on either side of their cheeks.

Sure, we all whine, do we not? But just whining alone is not going to change anything, neither is it going to help make yourself feel better. The only way to bring about changes is to DO SOMETHING constructive or at least something that appears to be constructive.

Whenever I see people whine about how life is unfair and how others have it better than them. Babies, grow up, LIFE IS UNFAIR, who told you life was ever fair? It is your responsibility to effect the changes, either to change the thing at hand or to change the way you think about something. And believe it or not, someone must have worked hard to get to where they are today or at least their parents / grandparents must have worked hard to let their children / grandchildren lead an extravagant life.

And not everyone is smart, just because you are not as smart as A doesn't mean life is unfair, we are all made differently to achieve different objectives in life or to fulfill different roles in the society. A rather good friend of mine once told me, because he is not as smart as the rest, he tries to make up for his inadequacy in the mental faculty department by working hard, that's his secret for doing just as well as the other bright dudes around him. He made an effort to level the plain fields. What did you, the whiner do apart from ranting like some madman on the loose?

When I was in polytechnic, some several years ago, I was envious of my friend being listed in the business school's director's honours list but I didn't just stop at being envious, I worked my ass off to be listed on that same list consecutively for straight two years (which happens to be my penultimate and final year), thus graduating as one of the top 10% students in my cohort for my diploma. My other close friend of mine wanted to beat me in terms of studies because he was too envious of my status in the Dean's list, too worked extremely hard and graduated as the top student for one particular subject and was offered the most prestigious scholarship at SMU, look what doing something did for him. Had we both just happily stuck ourselves in the perpetual state of envying others, would we have gotten this far? No, for all I know, we might both turn into some jealous freaks who only know how to whine.

I particularly hate it when all people do is to whine / bitch about how someone is leading a better life, how someone is richer, how someone is smarter etc etc and more importantly, how life is unfair because of whatever reasons they conjure up, seriously, stop making excuses for your inadequacy, just admit you are not as good as others and from there move on and do something to change your life, make it a better one so that others can whine about how unfair it is that you lead such a good life or that what a smart guy/girl you are. Period.

'Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.'

'If you forgive others, you will be forgiven.'

- From the Bible, Chapter Luke.

In bad times or darkest moments, all that I can think of is to hope and pray that the Lord will always be with me and see me through these insufferable times.

In bad times, I tell myself that God has made me a much more stronger person than who I really think I am and I tell myself that I must only become stronger and stronger with each passing day to survive and to live.

In bad times, I tell myself to have a grip of myself and to have constant faith in the Lord.

In bad times, I never give up on myself, I continue to live life as fully as I possibly can and seek to enrich my tortured soul with good deeds.

What do you do in your bad times?