There is no excuse for feeling sorry for yourself. If that thought doesn't suit you, then let Me say it this way: You must not feel sorry for yourself. You must not. Whatever the circumstances, you must not feel sorry for yourself. It is not helpful for you to commiserate with yourself. Feeling sorry for yourself is a dead-end occupation.
If you cannot get out of the spot you are in, then at least change your frame of mind.
Beloveds, there are people with no arms and no legs, and they do not feel sorry for themselves.
Feeling sorry for yourself is pernicious. Feel not sorry for yourself nor for anyone else. Feeling sorry is the same as looking down on someone, and you know better than that.
When you feel sorry for yourself, you become like a beggar begging for alms, only what you are begging for is sympathy. Forget sympathy. It does not hold you or the sympathizer in good stead.
When Christ saw the lame man, he did not ooze sympathy. Instead, he told the man to get up and walk.
I am telling you that you must get up and walk. And if you cannot walk, park your mind in a different place. Poor you is a poor refrain. It gets you nowhere.
It is much better for you to ask the question: "What do I do now? Where do I go? If I cannot change my situation, then how do I change my mind about it?"
Beloveds, you would never like to crawl, yet sympathizing more than five minutes with yourself is the same as crawling. You must get up and stand on your own two feet of attitude.
There may be a huge tragedy in your life. Still you must get up and set a tone to the world to repeat. Sing a high note. If you are not inspired, then it is up to you to inspire others. What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for someone else? If you are feeling sorry for yourself, then you must be waiting for someone else to uplift the world.
Beloveds, you could wait your whole life for someone else to ring the bell of upliftment. When you see a need, it is for you to fill it.
When you are feeling sorry for yourself, you are being short-sighted. You are overlooking opportunity. When you are feeling sorry for yourself, you are cutting yourself off at the pass. When you are being short-sighted, you are short-changing yourself.
You have a responsibility to move forward in life. Under all circumstances, this is what you must do. This is an offering I give to you. It is an offering you must accept on behalf of yourself, your family, and the whole world. Even if you are chained to a bed, you have a responsibility to raise your thoughts. You have a responsibility to not stay in the same place. Especially, if you cannot physically move, it is imperative that you move your thoughts.
In cases such as this, if you are not moving forward, you are not innocent. To move forward or to look back, to move forward or to stay the same, is a decision you make. A default decision is nevertheless a decision. You choose what you choose. If you need more alternatives to choose from, find more alternatives to choose from.
There is no life to waste. Even if you have 1,000 reincarnations, you are not to wait, delay, procrastinate, dally, or make excuses. It is your responsibility to make the most of the life you are living now. It is your life, and it is waiting for you. Do not keep it waiting.