Put in your best effort

YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE

Many of us would have at certain times muttered the words, "Life is unfair", we would have been very upset by some of the things that happens to us. Sometimes, we sincerely think we do not deserve some of the things we get, but the truth is, if not us, who else? No one really complains about the good things that comes to them that they never really worked for, but when the otherwise happens, we complain, lament, and cry, why me?

When life throws you the things you desire, appreciate it, be thankful for it, and keep living forward; when it throws you the things you never wanted, the undesired things, accept it, and move on with your life. Work on the things you can change, and don't beat yourself on the things you cannot change. Life is more powerful than everyone of us, and sometimes there is nothing we can do about the things life throws at us.

Berton Braley wrote a very succinct poem which says,

If you want a thing bad enough

To go out and fight for it,

Work day and night for it,

Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it

If only desire of it

Makes you quite mad enough

Never to tire of it,

Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it

If life seems all empty and useless without it

And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,

If gladly you'll sweat for it,

Fret for it,

Plan for it,

Lose all your terror of God or man for it,

If you'll simply go after that thing that you want.

With all your capacity,

Strength and sagacity,

Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,

If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,

Nor sickness nor pain

Of body or brain

Can turn you away from the thing that you want,

If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,

You'll get it!

Life may throw many things at you, desirable, and undesirable, but predominantly, and ultimately, you will always get the reward for your own efforts.

To a better you, Kamikun John.