Every one has several resources around them. Some have more, some have less. But I believe that having resources is not the real advantage someone has over another. The real advantage some people have over others is how well they utilize their available resources. This can easily be understood by imagining two people. One has one book to read, the second one has a hundred books to read. The second one successfully reads his one book, yet the first one doesn’t even touch a single book. Clearly the first one was better equipped and more resourceful yet the second one actually took advantage of his meager, yet available resource.
Our desires play a big part in our recognition of our resources. We can easily neglect things around us that we don’t feel like using. Even our health is our resource. We can easily neglect it in many ways. We may have healthy food but we may opt for less healthy foods. Our body may be working fine but we may choose not to exercise out of laziness.
Its easy to take our resources for granted. We usually believe that our resources will last forever and that we have unlimited time and that we can utilize them whenever we wish. And perhaps the biggest resource that we can take for granted is our time. And there is no doubt that it leaves us just as the water leaves an open faucet. We should utilize our time positively by gaining knowledge, exercising, helping around the house, making money, socializing and learning our religion.
Sometimes we have resources but we feel like we will waste them by using them. This attitude makes us keep things for ages without using them and without letting others use them as well. We may keep some clothes, cutlery etc. like this for years and make no use of them. Rather, its important we realize that what comes to us is a blessing and using it for our better and that of others can help the society prosper. Save them only when there is a wise reason to do so.
Lastly, I would really like to mention something important. I believe that currently a lot of the world, including the Muslim world, is wasting its time on social media and on sites like YouTube. I believe they should stop throwing time away. The internet is filled with useful stuff. I believe that the world, especially the Muslims, should start educating themselves using such resources and not let them be there for no one to utilize. Likewise, we also have a lot of resources off the internet, such as books and magazines.
Life is too short to throw your time away and keep resources unused. Either use them or else you may never get the time to. Sometimes we realize that we could have had better days had we been a bit more in the game!
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