Life. The meaning of life varies for many people. Some want personal success in their career and education, some want to help their family’s financial situation, some want to hold to their religious principles, and some just want to enjoy life freely. These little things, these purposes are the things that makes us human.
Living life day by day, making progress seems like a simple thing to do, but it gets tiring. Repeating the same schedule day by day, losing that spark of life that made your daily life so much enjoyable, it happens to everyone at one point in their life. And it’s okay for that to happen. You’re not alone. At the end of the day, adversity is a privilege, and it makes us stronger. So, live life even if it’s hard. Even if life knocks you down, get up and seize the day. 七転び八起き。
In this era, mental health is more openly accepted and is not considered as a taboo. It is more widely known and accepted by the community. But we, as a community, do we really accept it? We belittle the struggles people have gone through just because we think that we’ve been through worse. Is that what us, as humans, co-existing in the same world should do? Reflect on this.
I personally think that no matter how hard the stress or depression hits you, you should always treat other people with kindness. In a world full of things so wrong, like the discriminations of Muslims in Uyghur, the slaughter of innocent men, women and children in Gaza, be kind. Greet the people you pass along on your way to your University, help the elderly carrying heavy stuff from the supermarket, help the people in need. Just be kind.
In a wrap, we live on this world for a purpose. Yes, the purpose varies by person to person, but one thing that is the same for all is that we should always be kind, and follow our moral compass. To the people out there, we are burdened with glorious purpose, you made the life you have right now, brick by brick. So why not live it to the end, with no regrets?