Purpose and Envy

Finding your purpose (or destiny if you choose to call it that) would make you less envious of others', because you will find fulfillment doing what you are meant to do.

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This crucial lesson I learnt from a series movie I just concluded - The Flash. It's a science fiction/ super power kind of movie - DNA building, breaking down, binding, remodeling and a bunch of other stuff. It's a movie mostly about a young chap that loves helping people that became a speedster. He can run faster than the speed of sound, alongside some other incredible things. He teamed up with a bunch of other like-minded fellows like him and help fight crime in their city and the universe at large. He got married to an amazing woman who loves writing. He was a CSI at the city's police department even before he became a speedster because he had always loved helping people.

On a fateful day, the speedster's speed power was transferred from him to his wife. For a number of missions, he had to sit behind a desk and help his team members navigate their ways through hurdles (in the field) to solve crime. He did poorly at it for a while, he was used to being out there and not the other way around. The wife was all excited with her speed and stuff, and it took some getting used to for him for a while, and honestly for me, I felt sad. But instantaneously as I was feeling sad and all, the thought of how something of sort happens in real life flashes before my mind. How all of a sudden we became incapacitated to do what we use to do, someone else gets to do it and gets the glory. Or how the law of nature sometimes turns it back against us, and what we grew up thinking we are naturally meant to do we are unable to actually do. It becomes difficult for us to accept the new way of life. It happens between couples, and we could hear of how a man almost ran crazy because he can't be the bread winner for a while and he had to transpose duties with his wife or a bunch of other nuances like that.

Back to "The Flash", eventually the superhuman that transferred the power from husband to wife was asked to undo what he did. The husband asked the wife if she really wanted to let it go, she said 'yes', and it was undone. Later that night at home, the hubby asked the wife why she gave up the powers, reaffirmed that he won't have forced her to do so if she didn’t want to. The wife smiled and said, "being a great speedster is not about the speed, it's about being the light everyone needs when the world grows dark, it's the kind of person they are, it's the kind of person that always wants to help. That's why being The Flash (being the speedster) is your destiny, it's your way of helping others, but it isn't mine” (that is being a speedster is not my way of helping others) ...then she turned her tablet to him (she was actually updating her blog at the moment), and said "this is!" (that is being a writer is my own way of helping people)

When you discover what you are meant to do. You will shine in your own orbit. You won't feel someone else is shining brighter than you are. Nah. Because you are both shining very brightly in your own way.

The sun has one kind of beauty, the moon has another kind, and the stars have another. And each star is different in its beauty.

1 Corinthians 15:41 ERV.

Each differs in its glory doesn't mean when one shines, the other's glory has been defeated. It just means they have different purposes, and as the case is, some would be put out there than others, hence some WOULD LOOK LIKE they shine brighter than the others, but that's not true, note this below;

Romans 12:6-9 KJV

[6] Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; [7] Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; [8] Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. [9] Let love be without dissimulation.

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And for the couples that have to swap roles for a bit. Remember you are a team, and you are both fighting for the same thing. In fact, the behind the scene factors are mostly more cogent than the factors that we can see.