The Hyperopia Syndrome

hy·per·o·pi·a  (hp-rp-)

n.

An abnormal condition of the eye in which vision is better for distant objects than for near objects. It results from the eyeball being too short from front to back, causing images to be focused behind the retina. Also called farsightedness, hypermetropia..

Let's say one day, you wake up in the middle of the night and you realised everything just doesn't go your way. Eg. you have too many assignments, you are broke, you are late to classes, and your friends do not seem to care about you. Furthermore, you realised everything is going everyone's way. Your friend recently found a new partner in life, the person that you dislike has above-average results on his assignments, your annoying ex-colleague got a promotion and it makes you feel worse. Worst of all, you start to blame it on everything in this world.

You would start to think that, your friend's partner is only interested in his money, that person who got that assignment result is close with the lecturer, that colleague of yours is a shoe-licker and many other stuff that you can come up with. You would even start to blame it on luck; why other people are so lucky and you are not, family; why you are not as rich as other friends, or 2nd chances; "if only I got to do that assignment again", "if only I have more time"... You would start to blame it on everything, except yourself.

A lot of people I know always has 10000 different reasons on why other people is luckier than them, or better than them or smarter than them ... But most of these reasons are mostly on other people's fault, not self's. People tend to be able to see other people's (distance objects) mistakes better than self's (near objects).

"Why is he a first class student and you are not?"
"He studied so much last year, whilst I played around enjoying my life. Believe me, if i study as much as him, I will get first class as well, even better than him."

The question is now then, why don't you put more effort? why don't you study more? why don't you increase your own productivity? why don't you be more ready for chances?

Complaining and ranting on other people's accomplishments would not get you anywhere.. In fact, those words of jealousy will only pull yourself back down the ladder. If you think those people are not worthy of their achievements or luck, what makes you think you are? Have you worked hard enough for it? Were you determined enough to get it? What did you sacrifice for it?

Wisdom words said that we create our own luck. I would not agree to that, but I believe that everyone has the same amount of luck, just on how much do we utilise on those lucks, those chances, so that we would be taking advantage of it.

Most of the time, the problem is not with other people, but the problem is within yourself. Before you start to blame the world, you should do self-inspection first. I am not suggesting you to be a depressed person who always blame on him/herself when something goes wrong. But before you put the blame on other people, you should really try to self-correct yourself. Cause no matter what, that is the only way for us to improve in our life.

Or maybe you can get a far sighted glasses from your nearest optician.