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COLUMN: Choose your battles wisely

───   16:44 Tue, 12 Sep 2017

COLUMN: Choose your battles wisely | News Article

"God grants us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr


I believe that the hardest pill for most human beings to swallow is one of ACCEPTANCE...

Accepting that your loved one is no more, accepting that certain things in life are beyond your control, accepting that you are not responsible for other people's actions but only your own, accepting that things will not always happen when you want them to and in exactly the way you want them to... the list goes on and on. Acceptance is never easy because often times it comes with a feeling of regret; regret that you're accepting things as they are whereas initially, that's not how you envisioned them to turn out; regret that you're giving in to something that your heart doesn't want to; regret that you're settling for what you didn't want to do. But what can you do in a world where no matter how hard we try; certain things will forever be beyond our control?

It is only natural for us to want to have things our way but the sad reality is that we can't always get away with that. At times life has its own plans as to how things will turn out and there's absolutely nothing we can do about that, besides accepting things the way they are...

Like a wise man once said: "A man must accept his destiny or be killed by it." A man must choose his battles wisely or be killed by his stubbornness of wanting to fight everything and anything in life. So many people today are miserable because they constantly engage in wrongs battles. So many people have lost their lives because they failed to choose their battles wisely. Not every battle that presents itself is worth being fought. The sad reality in life is that; no matter what you do, good or bad, people will ALWAYS have something to say. So let them talk. Don't entertain them. The battle is not yours to fight in trying to make people stop gossiping. Yours is to hold your head high and keep on moving forward. Sometimes no matter how much you love someone and show them just how much you love them, they might not love you the same as you do. Don't fight it. You did your best to give someone the best form of love that's out there and if not appreciated and returned; move on. Stop fighting for people to love you and treat you right. You can't fight for what you deserve, for what you are automatically entitled to. Stop hurting yourself by unnecessarily holding yourself accountable for other people's actions. Stop fighting unwanted battles of always making excuses for other people's behavior.

It's time to stop trying to change people who don't want to change. It's time to stop pushing people who don't take themselves seriously; people who don't want to be successful, to be. It's time to stop fighting for things and people who don't do any good for you anymore. It's time to stop battling with people who have absolutely nothing to lose while you have everything to lose. It's time to stop fighting for people to accept and embrace you the way you are without you pretending to be something and someone you're not. It's time for you to stop people's battles; it's time for you to let people fight their own battles and stand on their own.

It's time for you to let certain things and people be in life...

It's time for you to choose your battles wisely.

Today being a CHOOSEDAY; I challenge you to make a CHOICE and CHOOSE your battles wisely.

Happy CHOOSEDAY!

#NoAlarmNeededMyChoiceWakesMeup

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