I was in the prison again last Saturday conducting another legal lesson. I was quite alone this time as Jeanette and Iggy were not feeling well and withdrew at very last minute. I was leading a team to conduct the lesson as I am the senior in my team. After the lesson, I have time to talk again with my best friend in the prison. Today, his case will be trial under the appellate jurisdiction. I am worried. He is only a teenager yet he has to face so many obstacles in his life. I know I will have not been as strong as him if I were him. I can only pray for him, wishing the justice to serve on him, be he be given another chance to live as a normal being. How I wish.
I can feel that, my burden is getting heavier, my responsibility is getting greater in every aspect. Be it as a senior, friend, family member, leader or disciple, I am playing bigger and bigger role now. I am not sliding backward even a bit, I know I can't. I have to be strong to uphold my principles, my dreams. I have my own way of thinking, and of course I do have my own way of doing things too. My mentor Daisaku Ikeda once said:
"It's not important how you compare to others, but how you compare to who you were yesterday. If you see that you've advanced even one step, then you've achieved a victory."
I can feel that, my burden is getting heavier, my responsibility is getting greater in every aspect. Be it as a senior, friend, family member, leader or disciple, I am playing bigger and bigger role now. I am not sliding backward even a bit, I know I can't. I have to be strong to uphold my principles, my dreams. I have my own way of thinking, and of course I do have my own way of doing things too. My mentor Daisaku Ikeda once said:
"It's not important how you compare to others, but how you compare to who you were yesterday. If you see that you've advanced even one step, then you've achieved a victory."
(Quoted from Youth A Time For Construction)
This has been a very strong advice to me. From time to time, we have been wasting our precious time to compare what others have done, and had we achieved the same standard as them. Is that really that important? Why are we limiting ourselves to their standard? We not us who set the standard for the rest to follow? I also remember Alen Strike once said:
"Don't compare yourself to anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself."
"Don't compare yourself to anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself."
This is pretty true again. Are you thinking that you are not good enough? Never forget that your existence is not by coincidence. There are reasons for your existence regardless what your religion tells. Know how to love, appreciate and respect yourself. Learn how to do so. If not, you are not worth to be given a title as human. Remember, everything start from you yourself. The seed you plant today will result in the fruits that you will harvest in the future. If you never start to plant, you will never see the fruit.
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