Christmas is just around the corner and as usual, many people are busy shopping for Christmas gifts for their families and friends. Are you one of them as well? Do you like the feeling of wrapping gifts before Christmas and unwrapping those gifts you have received during Boxing Day? I guess you would like them.
A story was told that a man while traveling, he noticed an interesting event about gift wrapping. While he was at a departmental store, he saw a lady buying a special kind of fancy soap. The soap comes in three little bars, and was wrapped in transparent paper to make it tight and shiny. It is just like vacuum pack.
The soap sits on a cardboard tray and was wrapped up in a colorful transparent wrapping paper and tied with a beautiful paper ribbon at the top. He thought that this was beautiful enough to be presented as a gift.
Then to his surprised, he got a shock of his life when the sales girl asked the lady customer whether she would want the soap to be gift wrapped. He could not believe his hearing as the original wrapping is already very presentable.
Are you able to see the similarity of this story to your own life? The simple soap, with a simple function, is now being wrapped with so many layers of wrapping papers until the original objective might be forgotten. In actual fact, the one and only function of the soap is to provide cleanliness to you, but by the time it was overly wrapped, the intent of the soap was completely lost in your sight. What a pity? In this case, we are far more concerned and worried on the presentation than its intended function.
In your life, are you also too concerned about packaging that you have lost sight of the fundamental meaning of life? More too often, we are too concerned about our career, home, family, finances, medical, insurances, etc.. All these things are just like wrappers that wrapped over us over and over again.
While what you do everyday is important and essential, you should not lost sight of how to improve yourself as well. Life is not just about wrapping yourself with countless of material possessions, you should also supplements it with love, concern, happiness, motivation, inspiration to balance up.
In order to live a more balanced life, you can start to identify areas that you need improvement, and to seek them out. If you need more social contacts, you can seek out community and care groups to share with each other. If you need motivation or inspiration, you can consider to read self-help material. If you need a break, you do not need to have expensive holidays, spending time with nature around your areas and you can really fell the peace of mind. Take time to ponder and meditate.
