For the last 2/3 years, I have seen countless people behaving in countless ways. Over a particular matter, I was kinda sad, but when I analyzed the situation, I got to realize that people are bearing worse than mine. To be honest, life is always a mixture of pleasant and unpleasant struggles with time; we shouldn't be broken into pieces nor fly high in the sky.
In every place, we have one competitor, not real-world competition but someone who is like us, maybe in terms of age, responsibility, earnings, or position. So in such positions/stuff, there are always some compensations that need to be addressed; many don't get them and end up messing up badly.
So a year ago, the guy I'm talking about often got compared with me due to some matter by a bunch of people who have nothing important to do apart from these kinda stuffs. Lifestyle! Yeah, it was about the lifestyle. I was lagging behind, still doing. But yet, I'm happy with myself, Allah will fix things, and I'm slowly doing that as well.
People used to point out the lack with him, show me this, this, and that. Moreover, that guy was happy in showing off as well, financially solvent and would spend a lot as well, used to ruling social media, and business was expanding. I don't know what happened, the business suddenly got stuck, losses after losses, and now things got pretty fucked up. That guy is in pretty bad shape.
From my personal observation, it's not good to showcase our personal achievements or successes, as evil eyes are true. Even if we do, we must stay within our limits, have good intentions, and keep things as invisible as possible. That guy is going through hard times, financially. I pray and hope that he gets to recover from these situations. But the fact is, he got silent, inactive on social media, no showoff, nothing, as everything fell apart. So what's the use of flying so high that the impact while landing on the ground is so bad?
Just because of these kinda situations, I'm very much afraid of social media and its craze, even though I don't like the showoff mentality. I always try to keep things hidden, at least to its bare minimum. I'm very afraid of evil eyes; they are so real that I too suffered greatly due to this. So you may say, I learnt the lesson already, that too the hard way.
So yeah, it was just like a reminder, go slow, don't fly, stay down to earth as none knows what's gonna happen next.