Reality Check

I decided to do a reality check recently. It's a good thing to do a reality check once in a while. Because the reality that we're living in our daily lives, may not be the reality that we want to live out.

Simple cases in point.

I tell myself I should never be envious of people and their money. And then I find myself salivating over expensive clothes and jewellery and shoes in fashion magazines, and telling myself I should marry a rich old millionair so I can have all these pretty things!

I tell myself I should have integrity in my work, and perform my job to the best of my abilities. But on a Monday, it's just too hard to do, and I spend quite a but of time on I-hate-Mondays, and let's-go-for-a-2-hour-lunch conversations.

I tell myself that I shouldn't obssess with being thin because what's important is being healthy. But then again, sometimes I find myself bemaining the fact that I look like one of those don't-fall-down dolls which can never fall because they rock and rock on their big huge heavy bottoms.

I tell myself that I shouldn't waste time on frivolous things, and to try to engage myself in more useful and educational things (like right now I'm trying to pick up the piano!). But on a Monday evening, beat from work and suffering from Monday blues, I plonk myself in front of the TV, and there I stay until I realise it's time to sleep, or I'll never wake up the next morning!

So the question is, what is the reality that you're living today? Has the real world or the reality that surrounds you, affected and influenced the reality that's in your hearts? Are you exchanging the worldly and greedy and superficial realities of this world we live in, for good and strong and worthy values that your mother taught you when you were a child?

It's time for you to do your own reality check. Do it today.