“Life on your own Terms”
By: Santosh (June 13th, 2008)
“Life-On your Terms”. This is the quote I came across on the cover page of an investment review magazine of one of the biggest banks in the country; for some reasons I’ll keep it unnamed.
The magazine is a research magazine which shows the past performance of all the investment products available in the market. In short the magazine is giving us data to analyze and understand where to put our money so that we can make more money and when we have more money we can live our “Life on our Terms”.
But can we really live “life on our terms”?
If i see it from the material perspective may be “yes”. You see people around us taking control of their life: deciding what to eat, drink, when to drink and with whom to live, what brand, and even pre marital, post marital relations et cetera. These are components that people consider when defining “life on their terms”, doing what they want and when they want without strings and without any moral standards.
We can see young people getting into drugs, alcohol, rash driving, murder and after commiting this they even don’t have a remorse of it. These too is defined as “Life on our Terms”.
In the recent Neeraj Grover murder case, the young navy officer Jerome who brutallly commited the act along with his girlfriend Maria was quoted in a leading daily, “I don’t have a remorse of what I did, but I’m worried about Maria”!! and believe me there are people in this world who would like to take Jerome’s side.
In this world, truth has become stranger than fiction, because we’ve adopted fiction into our life than truth. All this is happening because of the demanding environment in this world.
The Bible tells us what we’re supposed to do with our life so that we can live the life in God’s terms and conditions. A mobile phone can never work on its own terms and conditions, not even a robot. Everything has been fed into our minds (conscience) and also given in the user manual called “The Bible”.
Lets take up the Word of God so we know on what terms and conditions we are to live rather than on the “terms” defined by the world which will lead us to more and more trouble.
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