My Life Learning Lessons

Life is the best teacher. It teaches lessons and makes us realization on things in its way.

While facing problems(I call it challenges) life used to throwing us, we can relate many great sayings by the people on life and things. Those saying impact us profoundly when we start experiencing it.

Background.

It has started a few weeks before. One early morning came to know that my close relative suddenly got sick.

We were in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis. The airline stopped all the flights to India from Singapore. We need to take the company’s permission to travel to India because of Government rules. It was a long process and almost impossible to fly to India.

The whole episode happened for four weeks. We went through a lot of ups and downs during this period. Convincing each other and ourselves to stay strong and positive on each passing time was very difficult.

Two days before the incident happened, she came to Bangalore to finish some work and attend her final exams.

When she is in Bangalore, she had not responded to any of our calls. Her phone was switched off, and the landline was unanswered. Everyone tried a few times and no luck. Naturally, everyone in the home got pissed off.

As of the situation, we started assuming many things like she is hanging out with friends, not responsible(COVID), switched off the phone on purpose, and all the assumptions.

The next day with the neighbor’s help, came to know that she was at home and sleeping. When neighbors woke her up, she was blabbering, out of control, forgot that she has final exams that morning, and she is a lot of confusion state.

By looking at her state, her mother decided to go and see her immediately. When she reached Bangalore, after some time, It feels like the situation was under control.

At night her condition got worsen. Her mother decided to take her to the hospital. After admitting her into the hospital, the first two days were tensed because of her condition.

By that time, everyone is praying hard for her recovery, Just her recovery.

How it got resolved — The Climax.

After three weeks, the hospital confirmed that it was because of the pre-COVID symptoms, she was in that state. She got recovered slowly in three weeks, and everything is normal now.

If we look at the last four weeks of the time and things we went through, thoughts came into mind, feeling used to come, realizes why people say our Life the best teacher, it teaches a lesson.

It’s us to learn and remember those lessons for remaining journeys.

Lessons I Learned 📝

I tried to summarize my thoughts, feeling passes through in my mind. Although most of them I heard many times, it made a profound impact when I experienced it.

1. The situation reassures that no one in the world can replace the mother🤶. Looking at the struggle she went through, the fight she fought through, the risk she took, and her prayers to the god every minute!! How will god deny her prayers?
2. It is tough to console the people on the phone. In a difficult situation, we should be with family to rise above the problems 👨‍👦‍👦. On the phone, one can say not to cry, can’t able to wipe their tears.
3. What is essential in our life? Good job, Cool vacations, settled life !! The whole situation was saying Living a life Matters! After all, a healthy lifestyle promotes happiness.
4. We start to understand people’s values when we are about to lose them.
5. Can’t adjust timings of the incident in life. The whole reason for working in Singapore is to stay close to home and can reach India at any point in time quickly. This entire situation questioned us what is this? Fate!!!!
6. Our perspective on people will change according to the situation. When people are sick, we suddenly start caring and consoling that we blame on normal time.
7. Don’t judge people based on facts. Know the complete story, whatever situation would be.
8. Family is the one thing we can always count on👨‍👦‍👦. That makes me think that how many people whom I can count as a family in my surrounding.
9. One should bless to have friends who felt the same way as a family. Friends also extended family, right?
10. One should be blessed to get parents and relatives who are always supporting and ready to go to any extent.
11. Realized always good to know some doctor. It’s important to have someone comfort us in a difficult situation.
12. Importance of having friends with whom we can share our demanding time and their prayers.

Life is the best teacher. It teaches lessons in its way by throwing different challenges. It’s up to us how we take those challenges and rise above it.

We should always be eager to learn new lessons and should keep open our eyes to see and learn lessons from others.