Where are you rushing to? What’s the hurry? These are questions I have been asked growing up, at different times and occassions. I can vividly remember a time when an uncle brought it to my notice that I was eating with close to the speed of light, talking like I had hot coals on my tongue, certainly I must be in a hurry to get somewhere.
Growing up however, I have discovered that there are things that can be rushed, and their are some things that you better allow to run their full course. A proverb says that we don’t rush up hot stew, else our mouths will get burnt, and we will not be able to use burnt mouth to lick cold stew. In other words, when the chicken lands carelessly on the rope, neither the rope nor the chicken are comfortable. I have since been able to draw up a list of what you can do in a hurry and what you shouldn’t.
In a hurry to be rich, men kill themselves
In a hurry to to grow up, girls betray themselves
In a hurry to arrive, guys end up “the late”
In a hurry to be great, many bite the hook and miss the bait.
What’s your hurry? The meal taken in haste seldom is enjoyed. The chinese say that when you eat for an hour, you won’t be hungry for long. Don’t rush the clock, savour the moment. While my search brought me to see that haste was waste, I also discovered that there is a time to crawl, walk, run or even fly. There are times you must fly!
If there is one thing I’m in a hurry to do today…I’m in a hurry to be happy!
Happiness is an interesting concept. It’s not really a matter of events, its usually a function of perception of events. Happiness is a state of thoroughly enjoying what one does. Of all things in life, happiness is not something your can successfully postpone, if you are not happy today, it reduces your chances of ever becoming happy.
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” -Anne Frank
While in life you ought not hurry for many things, happiness is a state that must characterise you today! The seed is similar to the harvest, in fact you can estimate the fruit from it’s seed, in some cases the seed is even in the fruit. Today is a seed, if happiness is not in the seed, tell me, should it be in the future? In different ways, happiness is what we all seek. We must not however wait and wish, that by some stroke of genius or in ways unknown, we will suddenly find ourselves living lives of happiness. Happiness requires action!
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. -Benjamin Disraeli
So ask yourself, what will make me truely happy? What will I do for the rest of my life if money was available to live my dreams. Happy futures are never a product of sorrowful pasts. Happiness is the reward of those who find happiness all through the journey on the way to happiness. Successful people are usually people doing what they enjoy, until success comes.
Don’t mortgage your happiness…find what makes you happy today…and commit your energies to it! At the end, one man said, all that will matter in our actions is whether or not it won the respect and admiration of God, family and friends. When the chips are down, what matters most is happiness.
And in case you are wondering if being happy is entirely a selfish do it now project? Try these quotes on for size
John Templeton
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth… Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .
Lord Byron
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Happiness is like peeing your pants: Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it’s warmth. –Unknown –:))Are you happy today? Find true happiness…the seed is in the fruit and the fruits in the seed.
4 thoughts on “In a HURRY…?”
It becomes a perspective issue when one analysis the concept of hurriedness versus happiness. Is Deolu refering to two mutually exclusive element or fusing them to create an article? Whichever it is, happiness may be an excuse for lack of growth hence development.
A man may decide to be happy with whatever he is doing and never grow when the bitter lessons that will escalate the said man to a different level of growth faces him. He simply says “I enjoy what I do.” and rests on his oars. Could this be the ideal? When one takes into consideration that pains brings gains; if you do not reach that pain level where your muscles are exerted then you may never grow even if you love what you do. Then the argument may come that I enjoy what I do so much that i dont feel the pain. Ha! you lie to yourself because every significant growth comes with pain.
I remember a dear friend of mine who fell into this trap of not getting the big picture; he left school because he hated his course and loved preaching and praying. This was a huge one but thank God he returned to school after 1 year of missing school. I believe the wilderness experience is not a happy experience but it is needed before the promise land. So I ask this simple question ” how can we be happy if we dont eventually become happy in the long run?????????
I beg to answer my own question. I am also very confused with this concept myself because I just posted an article similar to this on my site taking into account an excerpt of a manual which I wrote 3 years ago.
I strongly believe the best teacher is the Holy spirit who guides us in all direction and tells us which lessons is good for us………….
Everyone has his own time or season to shine, we do not need to hurry to go nowhere. one should take time to savour each & every moment.
If you hurry through life, you would get to the end faster than you should. Happiness is really doing what you have been designed to do. It’s finding your purpose and fulfilling it. Finding your place.
Godspeed!!!