Cheers to all our stories

Is it the world that molded me? Or am I the one who molded the world? Or maybe an interplay between me as an individual molded by the circumstances surrounding me and my actions toward the world that I am currently in.

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We can never deny that despite our sameness, still we become different from each other at the very instance that we set foot on earth. This is a difference that is determined primarily by what we think, what we do, what we feel and by how we perceive the world.

But as we go through life, in our everyday encounter with one another, we realize that in this difference and sameness, there are only two possibilities - either we touch someone's life or we get touched by another's life. And so we ask. What have i done? What am I doing?  Because everyday and every encounter is an invitation for us to look into our lives and to find meaning in everything that we do.

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It is so easy to go with the flow - To do what everyone else is doing - to just let go and to live. To be absorbed by the temporary worldly splendour. But we are encouraged to step back and to look at life from another angle.  And as we slowly step back, we are startled by how life has changed. And with hope, we are all challenged to do something. Not just for ourselves but for those who are in greater need. And this is a challenge that doesn't happen in a moment but an everyday commitment.  Because in this world; our life - how we live it and how we go through it from day to day, how we interact with people, how we use our differences to complement one another, how we use our strengths to uplift the condition of the other, how we use our weaknesses and how we struggle each day to become better people becomes our personal story.  And this story is our message to the world.