If You Want to Keep Yourself Well

Let me teach you some simple wisdom. If you want to live well, read this post carefully. Share it with your friends—it will help them.

Don't explain your position to just anyone. Never justify yourself to those who have no right to demand explanations. Give a monkey too much rope and it climbs on your head; give a person too much rope and they climb up and piss on you! People are worse than monkeys!

Someone misunderstands you? Let them.
Someone misinterprets you? Let them.
Someone judges you based on hearsay? Let them.
Someone spreads lies to humiliate you? Let them.
Someone comments on your personal life without knowing you? Let them.

Someone trying to force advice or pick fights? Someone trying to belittle you? Someone talking to you with barbs? Someone eager to irritate you? Someone trying to bully you?

These things happen to us all the time, don't they? Come on Facebook and you have to endure all this.

...I made a small error in my writing; not "have to endure" but "choose to endure." Why do we choose to? Hoping for love and likes? Comments? Shares? Reactions? What do these accomplish? Will they get us to heaven? Will they increase our income? Our wealth? Will they give us special happiness or peace? Will they boost our sexual prowess? We can't control everyone's thoughts and opinions, nor do we need to. You keep tolerating people out of shame? What does shame accomplish? Money? Peace?

The cow that gives milk—you can tolerate its kicks.
The cow that gives likes and comments isn't really a cow but a bull; it has no capacity to give milk.
Ten thousand likes won't even buy you a ten-taka banana! What's the point of such horse eggs?

Try this for just one week. Don't make the slightest effort to explain yourself to someone who doesn't understand you or misunderstands you. Let them think whatever they want! Let them misunderstand you, let them not understand you. If you see they won't stop, block them without a second's thought, immediately. Don't be afraid—these useless, worthless dogs only bark on Facebook; they don't have the courage to stand face-to-face and speak. If you think, "What will they think!" I say, "Is their opinion worth caring about at all?"

Anyone whose behavior disturbs your peace of mind, who causes irritation to arise within you—block them without a second thought. If someone demands explanations when you don't need to explain yourself to them, block them. There's no time or need to answer such pointless questions. Unless absolutely necessary, don't explain yourself to anyone in this world. Remember, above all else comes your self-respect and peace.

Fill your Facebook blocklist with crazy, foolish, ignorant, senseless, rude, shameless, harmful, and annoying people. Save time, increase peace. Nothing in this world is above peace of mind. If one or two people get wrongly added to that list, no problem. When clearing weeds, a good plant or two might get cut. No matter! Let me tell you from experience: the damage a hundred useless people can cause, even a hundred thousand good people together can't provide even a tenth of the benefit—or won't. They won't even unite for your sake, so how could they! They lack both the desire and the ability. When you're in trouble, you'll see that those you consider good people aren't saying anything; they're staying silent despite seeing everything. Good people are very self-centered. Afraid of getting beaten or getting into trouble, good people always remain silent. You'll be in danger not because of the vocal few bad people, but because of the silence of countless good ones. Good people outnumber the bad, but they're useless. To turn an entire class upside down, just two or three troublemakers among a hundred students are enough!

Look at me! I practice a hundred percent zero-tolerance policy on Facebook. Make even a slightly off-topic comment—blocked! Harass anyone—blocked! Comment involving my personal life—blocked! Give pointless ha-ha reacts—blocked! Make the slightest attempt to annoy or embarrass me—blocked! Try to advertise anything—blocked! Try to spread any propaganda—blocked! Show even minimal rudeness in comments—blocked! Make pointless comments—blocked! Talk down to anyone—blocked! Come to show off knowledge or give unwanted advice—blocked! Speak without knowing or based on assumptions—blocked! Make provocative comments about religion, country, politics—blocked! Mention my job or office irrelevantly even once—blocked! Unnecessarily mention BCS or cadre in comments—blocked! Write about any of my family members for no reason—blocked! There's so much more! Hard to finish listing!

I never block based on profiles, only based on behavior. A goat, at day's end, is still a goat—eat jackfruit leaves and still a goat, eat a Nobel Prize and still a goat! I don't know of any other page that blocks followers on such a mass scale. My blocklist now has over a hundred thousand members. That list grows longer every day. Many of them create fake IDs to follow me again. Some request unblocking through messages and emails. Let them! Blocked once, blocked forever! Should I search through my blocklist to find and unblock you? Are you crazy! That I spent valuable time blocking someone like you—that's the luck of your seven lifetimes! I don't need you, you don't need me—this is the principle I follow on Facebook.

I say again: Don't waste your peace, happiness, comfort, or time on unnecessary people. Don't give even a grain of justification to those before whom you don't need to explain yourself. The fewer people you give space to in your life, the better you'll live. You don't really need anyone from Facebook, and they don't really need you either. Facebook is a 'fairly' fake place when it comes to finding people necessary for life! Apart from peace, we don't really need much else. For those you can't block for some reason, throw their messages in spam. Let them send messages to their heart's content when their body has excess oil. Let the dogs bark outside the door—just don't open it!

Reading this post, many of you will think, "Huh! Pride is the root of downfall!" So sweet! You saw with your own eyes the downfall of Bangladesh against Zimbabwe as punishment for the pride of arrogant players like Sakib-Tamim! What more can I say!

The real point is, this isn't called pride but self-awareness. Even if it is the root of downfall, if I fall, I fall! What's your problem? That's not even the point! The truth is, almost everyone you see around you is completely unnecessary for your well-being. Why give someone who isn't needed for your happiness the opportunity to keep you unhappy? Money, profession, relationships, joy, responsibilities—anyone outside these five aspects of your life isn't really an important person for you.