NOBODY CAN LIVE A “TOO” EASY LIFE!

Have you ever wondered, “Why do some people have such a good life when they always get their dream jobs, a stable house, a lovely home, or earn big incomes without trying too hard?”

If you used to think like that, then read my following story. After that, come back and let me know if you still think the same.

I know a Generation Z boy who is very handsome, tall, and smart. He is also the “child given by the grace of god” of an entrepreneurial couple, whom I had the opportunity to work with once in Vietnam. The boy, ever since his birth to the university phase, had always lived with his parents. He was also a very good boy who always obeyed his parents in everything. However, when he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University, he suddenly decided to move to a big city in the South to live and work.

Despite the strong objections from both the mother and father, the threats of cutting off all living expenses so that the boy could fend for himself, no matter what, the boy was still determined to travel to the South, separating his personal life from his parents. At first, when everyone did not understand the reasons behind his action, he, a true “Mandarin’s son”, started applying for a part-time job, with a basic salary of only 5 million VND.

After a rough year of trying hard, stumbling on a journey full of difficulties with tears and the taste of bitterness at the beginning of life, the young boy had become a grown strong and mature man. One evening, when I was surfing Facebook, I came across a long post on that boy’s page.

When I finished reading, I understood his real situation when coming to a big city alone better. It seemed that the hardships and struggles there taught him a lot of life lessons. He began to succeed when he stepped out of the cover of a rich, well-cared, and soft boy. He earned money through his efforts. All of that for only one reason only: the boy wanted to get rid of the restraints as well as the shadow of his Entrepreneur mother!

As it turned out, from childhood to adulthood, his mother was a person who greatly influenced his thoughts, lifestyle, and personality. However, whenever he was with his family, he hardly once made any decisions on his own, even if it was his business. That went on for twenty-three years, which led him to be bored and not want to sink any further.

In addition, the boy’s mother and himself were not the only family of his father. Therefore, during his childhood years, he was not only suffocated by his mother’s pressuring love but also had to suffer the deep trauma of his father having other families!

Do you see that? Although living in a house known as the richest in a region, being born with a silver spoon, that boy still suffered traumas and discomforts that not everyone can understand, right?

While I recorded this story, I also recalled another memory of myself when I just started working for a few years, in the same city that the boy in the story above moved to.

Once, I had an appointment to meet my company’s guest at a cafe located in an area full of big villas in the city. This was one of the people that I admired a lot at that time. I also assisted that guest to complete the final stages of many projects with the company, so I considered him as a dear senior, a person who I should learn from their experiences.

During the talk, he was very enthusiastic to talk to me and made me feel very respected, even though I was a young junior. That day, I spent most of my time listening to sharings about his journey of achieving his current career, from being a poor boy in a small town to living in this luxury city. A story that later became an inspiration for me which gave me more faith every time I have obstacles in my career, despite it being the only time I met him at the cafe. That is because I do not meet up with partners or customers outside a lot, as I believe the ideal place for work-related discussion is still the office.

What impressed me the most after that meeting was his amazing discipline. He said that for the first 5 years of starting the business, he woke up every day at 5:30 AM and worked until 11 PM. Regardless of whether the day is hot or windy, he still gets up at 5:30 AM to research, analyse the market, study his competitors, and expand his relationships with different partners, etc. Even from the time when his company was newly created, had only 1-2 people working, until when it had dozens of employees along with its factory, or until him being successful in his career, had a family, and moved to the villa like when I met him, he always wakes up at 5:30 in the morning to work, use himself to inspire his children and employees in the company.

He had a quote that I remembered until now, and I often think of that quote when contemplating life and people: “No one has an easy life. It is not when I have a successful career that I stop trying. I still have to work every day. There were only a few customers, and a few small projects before, yet when there are hundreds of people working for me every day, I ought to work even harder to help them maintain their income, and change their lives for the better.”

Thanks to the quote “No one’s life is easy” from him that day, I have a lot more motivation to try, and understand that rich and successful people do not have an easier life than others. The richer they are, the bigger the business means more responsibility and obligation. Just heavier, not lighter or more comfortable at all!

Therefore, let us all stop judging other people’s lives through our perspectives, my friends! Anyone who comes to this life will have pain, trauma, joy, and happiness that when we are not in their situations, we would never understand them clearly!

• If someone does not have to go to work from 9 AM to 5 PM, they may also have to stay up very late to get some work done.

• There are people who, even though, live soundly in their houses, or live miserably in harsh, wet, windy, or hot weather that makes it too difficult to breathe, they would still have to go out to work similarly every day. 

• Whether you are only in your twenties or maybe even 60-70 years old, you still have to work for a living every day and think about the future.

• If there are always restaurant owners who wake up at 3-4 AM to prepare in advance for their openings at 6 am, there will also be people who stay up until that time to finish a drawing, a presentation for the next 7 AM meeting with their partners and company.

• Whether it is someone who works in high-rise buildings, or who trades in market stalls, they must work every day to get more customers, the only way to earn a better life!

That is it, my dear friend! Every day that passes by, everyone will have to make an effort no matter what the circumstances and conditions. We do not even know if something will happen to us tomorrow. Whether we achieve success, or goals as we wanted or not, we still have to race every hour, every day with life!

The most important race is the race against ourselves. Since our lives are not always easy, never think that others’ lives are easy as well. Our job is to make unremitting efforts and persist in true labour. Try to understand and sympathise with others more. Then we will be happy, my dear friend!

Much love,
Truly Inspired