How to instruct your mind to get some MENTAL PEACE:

Dear Steemit friends,

Every now and then we are unhappy and sometimes, sometimes that is not because of something happening in our lives but due to what is happening in lives of people around us.

Let me tell you a very beautiful story that my brother always tells me. The story is so simple yet has such strong message on 'why should we not compare and be happy with whoever we are and whatever we have'.

Here the story starts :

Once there a Crow,

He was black and being shunned by other birds. He always used to feel inferior of his black color. He used to wonder why is he the blackest, he could have got the brown color like the eagle or hawks. He used to think life could have been so much better if i won't have been the blackest.

The tree he used to sit on was by the side of a river. In that river lived a Swan. A swan, pure white in color.

The crow would look at the swan and wish 'if he could have been gifted that white color'. Why holy lord why, he used to wonder alot. Always feeling inferior he never enjoyed his life to the fullest.

Then there was the Swan,

The swan pure white in color and being admired by crow was still not happy with herself. There used to be a peacock living in a cage near that river. And yeah ofcourse the peacock was colorful. The swan would always look at the peacock and wish if she would have those so many colors. She would feel her white body is full of dullness and nothing else and would always admire peacock. She also ended her day in deep anxiety and not enjoying what she is been gifted with.

Then there was the peacock.

Peacock was full of colors, admired by swan. But yet not so happy with herself. The peacock would always look upto the crow and wish if i could be free of this cage and fly high in the sky. Peacock would say to god, why you give me so beautiful colors and prints on my body if i had to be captured by humans. Why did i not get the wings like the crow.