Five good things I i did today are:
1. I did not go to the party meeting because I had a fever.
2. I ate as much as I planned while eating in fever is ducking difficult, in mess. Ghr hota to Kya hi bat thi 😅
3. None
4. None
5. None
I had a thought today. It’s useful for overthinkers specifically, and to everyone generally. There’s only one special ability in the world. Call it super ability or a hero(ine)’s inventory. Whatever you like.
It’s to go on. Suppose I am humble, but the world is filled with people who are humble too. At some point, due to whatever reasons, I may stop being humble. Someone having the same reasons as me, won’t stop. He’s specialer than me. Suppose I am brave but at some point, when I become coward, that’s when I stop being special. Everyone who is subjectively equal to me at that point, yet still brave, is the more special (wo)man. I gave up in the same ground realities as him/her but (s)he persevered. To go on, is the super ability. In cliche, to never give up is the super ability. Btw, I’m not brave and certainly not humble, under even a little pressure 😅
Subjective is like .. your ground realities. Both of these mean that in order to compare one thing with another, both things must be free from all external factor. Don’t compare the honesty of a poor guy/girl and a rich corrupt. An educated person and the one selling vegetables are not equal. Subjective is personal. The opposite, Objective, is Universal. It is an objective reality of time to always go on. It is however a subjective truth to stop when you think that in your reality, going on is a waste of resources (time, energy, money etc).
And there are some rules of counting the good things. One, every good thing is subjective. No one can judge that good thing as actually being “good”, everytime. For example, not going to the meeting apparently seems like a bad thing. But I have tasks lined up till Tuesday. At the party office, today it was the Dialogue Forum, Iftar Party, and then the meeting. About 5 hours. I could have attended it but at the cost of not doing any work tomorrow, with a strong chance of having to miss the office on Monday and Tuesday. Missing it however guarantees that I’ll be up by Monday. That’s how today’s decision to not go to the meeting was subjectively good. And because I had a person who would go only if I did, I had enough reason pushing me to go as well. Some time ago, I used to make such sacrifices and suffer the bigger consequences, later. But I’ve learnt to be patient.
The last rule of good thing is that, it counts only if the sources to do otherwise were also present. For example, today I gave a 100RS extra to the Bykea guy. But I did so because khula ni tha. The source to donate this 100RS should have been goodwill, not the absence of change. If I had some 10s and 20s, I would have stayed and talked it out, giving him only what we initially agreed. But .. khula ni tha :). Source of this thing was not goodwill. So that isn’t a good thing.
Philosophy itni boht he. After these two rules, actually doing the five good things matters.
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