My Big Problem

When I was in school, I was always scared of the exams. They were the biggest ghosts that would haunt me. I always dreaded those 2 weeks when I would have to handle the biggest troubles of my life, writing answers to so many questions, in such a less time. My parents always pushed me for performing better & scoring very good marks. So revealing my report card to them at the end of the year was also a big problem. At that time in my life, I could not think any bigger issue which I would have to face in life again, than getting good marks in the Final Exams.

When I reached High School, the biggest trouble for me then was to clear the Board Examinations & score good marks. I could not imagine my fate if I failed in the exams. I knew my life would end if I did not pass the examinations.

After school, my life was hanging on the thread of getting admission in a good college of my interest, out of my hometown. I had understood by then that getting out of the four walls of my house was the only way to survive as I grew up. I could not imagine a bigger problem than that at the end of my school life.

These are just a few examples of how at different levels of our life, our problems seem to be the biggest. One cannot think of a bigger dilemma than the one they are facing currently. One feels that the whole world would come crashing down if those issues are not handled well & one doesn’t find the right solution to them.

However, when you later look at the same thing, you realize that those troubles were really small, in comparison to the big picture. You then realize that an examination in school is not the biggest problem in life. That having being relocated to a remote city is not the worst thing that could have happened to you.

Probably landing a good job may seem to be the only way to lead a good life, but it may not really give you the ultimate solution to all your problems. At the next step, one may come across an even bigger issue, which might seem to be the biggest problem you have ever faced in life till date. 

I thus feel that although our current crisis seems to be the biggest difficulties we have ever faced till date, one should try to look at the larger picture of life and other troubles which are even bigger than yours. If the problems of your life seem to be too large, try to think of the troubles that the prime minister of the nation has to face in order to run it smoothly.