Life is a journey which we all go through it but we differ from each other in the way we look at it. Some enjoy it while others feel that they are suffering in it. We all start from the same place then our free will decides where to go and how to reach our target.
The culture and system that we learn since childhood navigate us in our way to the target that we put for ourselves. Some people choose to build their own way instead on depending on what others left for us.

Sometimes they succeed and sometimes they face more difficulties than the formers. Many people work in order to reach a target that they did not choose or think of. We sometimes prefer to choose what the others chose in order to be safe. We say to ourselves that it is fine that we are satisfied with what we call our destiny and that this will be better for us than taking the risk of trying to create our own destiny.

Finding the target or the accomplishment which we want to make is not the only needed step; we need to feel, see, hear, and know our exact purpose in this life. We need to choose what we want and not what others want us to choose. We need to live the joy of accomplishing our mission before accomplishing it by reminding ourselves, of who we are, the reason we want to accomplish this mission, and the passion that we have in ourselves. Do not hesitate to take your own decisions and do not believe that there you can always find certainty in every step you take. Try to break the rule which your mind tries to put in front of you and then you will get the chance to taste what you were told is forbidden.

The process of freeing yourself from the blocks which you create for yourself is hard at the beginning, interesting in the middle, and amazing when you start to see results. The result which you want to reach should not be similar to the situation which you used to live. Our current age is preventing us from looking at the reality of humanity, the masterpieces which great people left for us from the past and the abilities and knowledge which we own today. The competition and hater which humans are busy with today in order to gain authority and power over the world are destroying the truth of us.

Today, humans are busy with their unimportant, applied duties in order to feel secure; the system which we follow today tells us that the feeling of safety can only be lived once you accomplish what the society demands from you. This starts a competition between the people in order to make sure that in the end of a long day and while you re lying on your bed you will be saved and secured. We forgot that the essence of security, happiness, love, joy, safety, and every positive feeling must come from inside us in order to feel and enjoy it as we really want.

Feelings whether positive or negative are not given or implied over us by others; it is us who choose what to feel and how to think. The free will which each one of us have and the mind which everyone owns are tools that can be employed to either suffer and torture ourselves or live and enjoy every moment of our live. How many times did you try to laugh at something that you considered bad and makes you angry? Did you even think of this or you consider such a thing a crazy action. How many times did you remind yourself that in times of difficulties you should be training yourself to become stronger instead of convincing yourself that you are suffering? The way we react to accidents is made by ourselves and not by others; if you believe or make yourself believe that nothing can stop you from achieving what you want and that once you feel pain and suffering then this should be a sign that you are in your way to real success, nothing will stand in your way.

Determination, Will, and Passion are the weapons which you need. Once you have them you will create what thousands preferred to leave and only then you will taste what life does really mean.

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad

A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is a former President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.

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