I started my morning today looking at the sky, hoping that it would rain. A sky fanatic like me might understand this emotion or maybe someone who is unemployed or doing a job that they are not at all happy of doing.
It has been one and a half year of just sitting at home, without a job. Well, that’s a choice, I’m not that useless! Sometimes I find myself working so hard that I feel it’s breaking my bones and there have been times when I want to put an end to everything, put everything in a box and throw it in water and remove its weight off my chest.
There have been times when I have really questioned the choices I have made in my life. Not anything in particular but about little decisions that we take in general, unaware of the fact of how it will affect our life and lives of people around us who we love!
I have seen people who are an epitome of success to others extremely sad, and people who are considered as underachievers totally satisfied and happy with life.
I have been privileged enough to talk to both kinds many times.
On asking what is that makes them feel this miserable or feel so full of life?
You will be surprised to know that the answer to both the sets of people was almost the same.
“I don’t know”
Yes. People don’t know!!
Yes, we never know what is that making us so upset with life when there is so much for us to be grateful about. Same is the case with being happy.
The only problem here is, we give so much power to our sadness that when happiness knocks our doors, sadness overshadows it.
It will sound bookish and philosophical if I say, happiness, sadness, love, and peace is within you. Everything that you want to experience is within you. You just need to be open enough to sync with it.
It’s not good and wise to be this harsh on yourself.
I see a lot of motivational quotes and articles and videos these days. I see the number of views and likes on it but I often wonder is it bringing in any change in people’s life.
Are we really “Loving ourself” when we read and like the quote that says “Self-love is the best form of love.”
In this world full of influencers, we have totally forgotten one basic thing that nothing, absolutely nothing will change in your life and within you if you are not consciously trying to fix things for yourself.
Imagine since your teenage years if your mother who is reminding you on a daily basis the importance of sleeping and waking up on time, couldn’t really make you do it. Do you really think listening to an influencer about all the great things to be done for 15-20 minutes would bring any significant change in your life?
I’m not saying, don’t read/watch motivational things, it’s a good way to start your day but don’t rely on it to do some magic to you and make you feel like you are experiencing heaven. To be this way, to feel this, you need to put in the effort, you need to do it for yourself. That drive must come from within.
Recently, one of my friends was laughing at my habit of sky watching in the evening, taking a picture and posting it every day.
Yes, I watch sky daily for half an hour, just stand still and watch it changing colors. I do it without a fail. I take its picture every day and trust me there is something so beautiful about the sky that you don’t even need a perfect lens or good photography skills or any filters for that matter to make it look beautiful.
I love watching the sky, it gives me peace. I find answers to many questions in that half an hour of absolute solitude.
We all can do that, it’s not necessary to watch the sky. The idea here is, just do something daily that gives you a sense of peace that might be writing, painting, dancing, praying or something as simple as talking to a friend.
Never ever in your life underestimate the importance of small things because the joy that these little things give, is unmatchable.
How can you not appreciate the fragrant flowers, a beautiful candle on the side table of your bed? How can we not appreciate the magic that this life is?
The bitter truth is that one day we all will be mixed with the soil when our time will come.
Before that, live your life to the fullest.
It’s okay if you aren’t getting the job of your choice. It’s okay if your friend is living a life that you dreamt of and you are nowhere close. It’s okay to not be perfect in the eyes of others but it’s important that this life that you have today is important to you.
It’s important that you make yourself happy every day even when you find absolutely nothing to be happy about.
In the beginning. I told you I was waiting for the rain the entire day, and in the evening, after the sunset when the sky was looking beautiful with different shades of orange and greys and when I was about to go thinking it’s not going to rain today, just then it rained. Believe me it happened. It didn’t rain heavily but it did rain as if it happened just for me.
All I want to say is, have patience, have faith and be grateful.
You will get everything that is good for you when you will be ready to receive it. Whatever you are seeking and thinking, the Universe will reflect it back to you.
You just need to appreciate the little things around you and that’s the reason I keep posting pictures of the sky, flowers and every little thing that makes me happy. Hoping that people who see it can look at the things with this perspective.
It’s important to be relevant, rational and do things that should be done in order to achieve what you want. But don’t let your goals engulf your happiness. Don’t let that peace, happiness, and love go off when that is all you are made up of!
In every bit of nature,
I see every bit of me;
I am the question,
I am the answer,
And the truth I’m in quest of,
Lies within Me!
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