It is a cycle. And it is best to be active in the cycle so that we move onto other stages and get out of it. Much time is wasted in thinking and not doing anything about it, thinking is like reliving that misery continuously. Doing is a step towards freedom, doing is another step closer to confidence & mental liberation.
After all, it is our own life, nobody will care for an individual's happiness unless the individual takes personal interest in themselves.
We should listen more to our conscience, and try to love ourselves. For if we love ourselves, we will be friends with ourselves, our conscience is always there to help, there is nothing like loneliness. There is life all around us, struggling to survive, no being has a life as easy as a human being. Since I believe in Karma, I wonder how much I must have struggled in my previous lives to finally be born as a human being. When I picture that struggle in my head, this human life feels too precious to waste in compromise. I try to give my best, and I try to get the best. Life is about attitude: the will power to do things, the belief in self, the confidence that "I can do this right". Ultimately, the evolution in thought from "I need someone to do this for me" to "I can do this for myself" to "I can do this for someone".
It all begins with taking control of our own life, being able to picture life without depending on anyone for their approval. Taking control of life doesn't mean financial/economic/physical living, that is a very narrow thing. I am talking on the lines of mental liberation, psychological freedom. Nothing in the world can restrict or censure the thoughts in our head. We self censure and admonish ourselves.
Also, regarding "taking control of life", here I am not referring to "Living a life of arrogance", I am referring to "Living a life with self-confidence". In some blind Indian families, many a woman is accused of "being arrogant" if she tries to assert herself. So women don't even realize when they lost the ability to think for themselves. They waste a lifetime in compromise which eats away their confidence, because all along, they're indoctrinated into believing that they are ridding themselves of "arrogance".
This post of mine is meant for all such women, who don't know what to do with their own head, their own desires. They feel confused, they don't know where their feelings belong, they're torn between here & there, now & then, just stuck in thought, guilty of that thought, miserable in compromise.
To them I say, O my God why should you be scared of thinking, of feeling, of wanting? No woman, it is not wrong to want to live your life your way. And it is not necessary to compromise on your feelings in the quest for approval, waste life, and then look back on what passed with regret. Be responsible for your own thoughts, reap the benefits, accept the pitfalls, there is a joy in this mental liberation, for it is freedom.
It all begins with taking control of our own life, being able to picture life without depending on anyone for their approval. Taking control of life doesn't mean financial/economic/physical living, that is a very narrow thing. I am talking on the lines of mental liberation, psychological freedom. Nothing in the world can restrict or censure the thoughts in our head. We self censure and admonish ourselves.
Also, regarding "taking control of life", here I am not referring to "Living a life of arrogance", I am referring to "Living a life with self-confidence". In some blind Indian families, many a woman is accused of "being arrogant" if she tries to assert herself. So women don't even realize when they lost the ability to think for themselves. They waste a lifetime in compromise which eats away their confidence, because all along, they're indoctrinated into believing that they are ridding themselves of "arrogance".
This post of mine is meant for all such women, who don't know what to do with their own head, their own desires. They feel confused, they don't know where their feelings belong, they're torn between here & there, now & then, just stuck in thought, guilty of that thought, miserable in compromise.
To them I say, O my God why should you be scared of thinking, of feeling, of wanting? No woman, it is not wrong to want to live your life your way. And it is not necessary to compromise on your feelings in the quest for approval, waste life, and then look back on what passed with regret. Be responsible for your own thoughts, reap the benefits, accept the pitfalls, there is a joy in this mental liberation, for it is freedom.
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