Hello Steemians,
It's been like over a week since you read from me. Well, i have been busy making preparations for my honeymoon which is starting on the 25th of this month. Many married colleagues have advised me that i should not spend all i have for the wedding but save for then-after. This is an advise i have taken very seriously!
Ok, While you ponder on the subject question, I will like you to do something for me. Whatever you think about this post, i will like to read them in the comment section. So please do not just read. Do not hesitate to put down your thoughts and if you think the post is quite useful then i will like you to resteem it, but also upvote(that is very important). It will be my pleasure to have you give your opinion so that we can have a robust conversation and an all round learning.
Okay. Is discipline the same as lack of freedom?
Many people equate discipline with an absence of freedom. You hear people say "I want to do what I want to do" People want freedom, not duty.
But in fact, freedom is lack of discipline. Only the disciplined are truly free. The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passion.
Can you play the guitar now? Have you mastered that sewing? When are you going to finish that book? You don't have the freedom to exercise your body and yet you're overweight. You never disciplined yourself. You prefer playing with your friends to practising. You prefer your sleep at dawn to road works. And when you get to work, you prefer to take the lift than taking the stairs.
The thing is, you haven't envisioned yourself as a guitar player really and you haven't envisioned yourself looking smart and healthy.
When you have a sense of what it might mean, a kind of freedom to create a magnificent art that might be valuable to yourself and others throughout your entire life, you would begin to put discipline into your learning.
And when you have a sense of what it meant to have the kind of body you desire, a healthy smart stature, and what it might mean for your relationships and we'll being, you would begin to exercise and follow the instructions of your teacher or health advisors.
Horace Mann said "He who never sacrificed a present for future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of colour."
Summarily, I want you my readers to understand that 'We only get our true freedom from being disciplined'. Discipline is not a curse but a blessing, through it we get to reach our true and desired goals in life.
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