#4 Enrich Your Soul

              

            A human's life is like a bank account. The good deeds add to your balance and the bad ones deepen your debt. Life is a precious gift, its a golden opportunity given to a soul to increase its bank balance and reduce its debt.

              People easily dig their debt's hole deeper and deeper by knowingly or unknowingly committing mistakes or sins. Insulting elders, carrying ego, belittling others, preserving grudges... these are the little routine ways by which people keep earning negative points. Not only that, all these things also pollute their brains. Your brain can become a factory for creating so many beautiful things, things that actually matter. Then why to waste such a valuable resource by converting it into a dump-yard???

              There are certain lessons that you must learn in order to prevent irreparable damages-

First and the foremost, you must learn to live in the Present. If you keep replaying the past in your minds, you will never be able to forget things that should be left behind. And if you cant forget, you can never forgive. Not forgiving gives you more pain than the person in question. It leaves behind grudges in your minds which do not let you breathe fresh air. Old hurtful memories should be disposed off before they rot. Otherwise you would fall prey to your own created problems, and then its like a loop, which is difficult to escape. There is one more thing that must be followed to keep away from the loop, you must stop cribbing and complaining about small issues like "He got an Audi A6, I am still using a Toyota Corolla". God! How the hell does it even matter? Look at the Bigger Picture my dear friend! You have no idea how lucky you are, there is so much misery in this world, even imagining some of it would give you goose-bumps!

                  And then, there are some other ways that you should follow in order to earn as many positive points as possible-

Have a clean heart, don’t help others because you have some hidden gain in it, help people because you like to, without any expectations. Don’t expect the world to treat you in a certain way, because the world is not your brain-child, everybody is different with all rights reserved. Accepting and respecting others the way they are reduces undue expectations and thus also reduces heartbreaks caused by disappointments. Value what you have, don’t keep comparing yourself with others, have a satisfied soul. Forget and forgive people and their mistakes, it will make you feel lighter and happier. Treat everyone kindly and respectfully, no matter how they treat you or what they think about you, what they say behind your back is their problem, not yours. Build your inner-self stronger brick by brick, attain higher levels of emotional intelligence, do not get carried away with alluring negativity around you, build a firm conscience and stick to it come what may. This will keep you away from negative things like guilt and fear of getting caught, this will help you achieve peace of mind.

Strive to be a better human each day, that's going to be your only take-away when you die...