Complaints

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou

Do you agree with Maya Angelou that it’s pointless to complain?

Ships are safe at the harbor but they aren’t meant to be moored there. The cuckoo at a distant tree in its euphonious notes calls out every morning as though it were challenging us to wade through the arduous life. Life is a daunting challenge, and looking at the plethora of things out there it is quite impossible for everything to fit our own whims and fancies. If we can we must, if we can’t, we mustn’t complain.

Peevishness and grumbling is an attitude of the sick, impoverished and the idle. The ideal breeding ground of negativity is idleness, for an empty mind is a devil’s home. When something falls out of our circle of influence to brood over our misfortune only exacerbates the present misery. If we are to be healthy and whole we must cast off all evils that deter us. Complaining serves only o waste our own previous time in vain and drains us off our verve without solving the grievance.

The productivity of men is directly proportional to his mental equanimity and freshness. The most ingenious of the ideas descend to us only when we are receptive to them. Amidst doldrums a person inherently becomes a pessimistic. And a pessimist not only fails in his personal life but also his social and interpersonal life. Therefore it is immaterial instrumental for one to avoid complaining if things cannot be changed.

A trash can cannot help but litter around. The only bounty it can afford to bestow unto others is malodor! Similarly a person who has tried and could not fork a desired change will be full of such self-itty and remorse (if he takes to complaining) This kind of a person will spread his noxious and lethal vibe to the very South Pole and infect even the most sturdy ad robust of us! A rotten mangoes has the potential to spoil the entire foliage and hence such people are pernicious villains to the well-being of the entire world!

The errand of life is the length of string - with a limited provision – that at any instant may be strained by Atropos! The emerald opportunity may slip away unnoticed, if we do not make wise use of it. Swami Vivekananda said, “To lose faith is worse than to be defeated.”  Not all things can change, after all we are all mortals and mortals shall we abide! To concede to this supreme reality and never air a complaint is authentic wisdom.