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Determination to do something or making up a mind to take steps is like a superpower. Many of us don’t start because of the fear of failure.
Once you are determined, you know what you don’t need. In these scenarios, you end up crafting your path and journey. You are beyond the status quo or copying someone else’s path.
This results in experimenting, failing, and learning. On top of all, you are the master of your ship and well aware of the consequences.
Relationships require trust and mutual respect. We are all unique souls working together and making the journey sail through. It is not some transaction.
The modern world has made relationships like swag or some tag attached to ourselves. As a result, the overall reason for the relationship has changed. It has gone all society and social media-centric instead the joy of togetherness.
We don’t have to be in a relationship or drag it to avoid the sunk cost. We are dying every moment. Our mental and physical well-being should take precedence.
I finished reading Matt Haig’s book reasons to stay alive. In the book, the author talks about his journey in battling depression.
On page 173, he summarizes: Depression is as
An internal war.
A black hole
An invisible fire
A pressure cooker
A devil inside
A prison
An absence
A malicious code in the operating system of your mind
A parallel universe
An echo chamber
Dark hopeless & lonely
I have been around people fighting depression off late and my journey in my late 20s. I could resonate well with the author’s take.
Avoid unhappy people who will find reasons for displeasure out of everything.
You will get sucked into them and their displeasure so much that you will forget living a life.
It will end up like living inside a well with all miseries.
I am unsure if it is a disease, upbringing, or lack of confidence to blame for it.
But in the net sum, it will be painful being around.
Our life is a mixed bag, and it gives us a reason for worth living.
But this does not mean that everything is shit. We see the world in a glass-half-empty state.
Can you help an unhappy person? I don’t know.
Impossible or I-m-possible. It is a way of seeing the world or any problem around us. Life is not easy for us all. I understand it. But does this mean giving up? Is asking for sympathy or help?
Our limited life is a gift, and we should strive to make it worthwhile more for society than ourselves. If we give up and accept losing, how will we live?
Giving up is easy. Staying alive is tough. Crying is easy, and laughing is hard. Once we realize this and start living, we attain the unthinkable and make the impossible possible.
Doubt is like a disease.
Once you have it, you have a limited cure for it.
You can doubt yourself and your capabilities.
And die in pain and misery for everything you failed to achieve.
If you doubt your partner, your relationship is a shrinking ship.
They will do whatever to persuade and bring trust, but it will fail.
Two of you will end up living like aliens under the same roof.
Doubts are a manifestation of our brain. It gets triggered because of our inferiority complex.
How many followers do you have on your social media networks? You are an influencer and thought leader. But how does it matter?
How many of your social followers will come behind you in the worst of your phase? Everyone celebrates your success and wants to own a piece of it. A few stay with you till eternity without any expectations. You can count them on your fingers.
Your seeking friendship, relationship, and long-lasting connection: what matters to you: Fans, worshipers, or followers in an alien world? This virtual circle around you is temporary. Is this what you want?
When you connect with someone, does it matter who they are or what they offer you? Is it a connection or a selfish interaction?
We die alone, carry no wealth, and settle down in the soil. What matters is a deep connection beyond our pedigree and wealth.
We are living in the era of automation and AI.
The landscape and definition of creativity are changing.
Is the new taking over the old?
What happens to the masterpiece of Bach, Van Gogh, Michelangelo, George Orwell, and numerous others?
Will they be forgotten?
Who will we become as a society and civilization in the era of automation? Are we going to have more leisure time for ourselves?
What will we do in our free time?
We have to dream. If not, then how will we live this journey?
Most of us live a simple, well-defined life: birth, education, job, marriage, kids, and death. There is nothing wrong with it. They are doing their part by making civilization populate and prosper. I am not saying they don’t have a dream.
There are a few crackheads who thought and dream big. They changed the course of civilization: from the innovation of airplanes and cars to computers. These dreamers had their purpose for us.
Our dreams keep us moving, breathing, and moving in life. Don’t let others come in between your dream. Work towards making it happen. Dream On.
Waking up, running on the treadmill and complaining about many things, and living grumpy is something many do, the sense of missing out and not living to the fullest. These are some common complaints I keep hearing. We forget to celebrate our existence and be thankful.
We build our world within us, our minds. We make friends, work and create support groups around our way of seeing the world. Some of us end up resting in peace and become ashes.
Very few of us add the purpose of our living, the ones who change the world. They live a life worth living for themselves and the world around them. They bring positive change to the world around us.
You cannot find your purpose on social media or cocktail parties, but it has to come deep inside you.