Harsh Realities

I have always lived in two worlds- My dream world and the real world. I spend plenty of time in my dream world. I day dream and with every touch of inspiration another dream is born. Though I love to dream and wonder, I cannot escape my realities. And realities as you know are not always fascinating. They at times are cold, gruesome facts shoved in our face without our choice. Yes I said without our choice. I came across a few, in a short while and I would like to share one or two. Firstly, things will not always be what you want them to be and at such times what one experiences is great confusion. But do remember, that this circumstance can be dealt with. At such times, it is better to figure out what matters the most to you. A major chunk of instability can be restored if you follow what you love. Secondly, the world will not always be open to your ideas. Now you may be this genius with thousand upon thousand ideas bubbling in your mind, restless with enthusiasm, waiting to be unleashed or you might be an explorer who stumbles upon things by chance. Either ways the world might at times play the deaf child or arrogant adult. Come what may, hold your courage. When a deep conviction overrules you, there seems no good reason why you should give up. At the same time, don’t push too hard, use the language of gentleness and even then if the world doesn’t let go of its pride and acts adamant, consider it has doomed itself with freewill. Walk away guilt-free.

Remember you don’t only write your own destiny, you write the destiny of the universe. 

Be Yourself...

“It does not matter how much you change the world, what truly matters is how much you allow the world to change you”, these words were imprinted on my mind as my Professor quoted if I’m not wrong Pete Seeger. One is free to interpret it in a thousand ways. When I think of it, this is what I make out of it. They are just two simple words, “Be yourself”. I’ve always felt that being yourself in this world has been a problem for everyone at some point of time or another. Right from making the most simplest of choices to the complicated ones, we have found it difficult to be ourselves at times.

At least, once in our life we come across people who don’t like us for what we are or so desperately desire to change us that we lose the sight of who we are and what we want. The most terrible people are those who under the pretext of friendship keep manipulating us for what they want us to become because they think you are not cool enough if you are not like them or do not agree with them. There are times when even the most strongest of us succumb under such unreasonable, pathetic pressure, sometimes even without realizing. So clever is the manipulation that we fail to see it. If you just sit and think at times many such incidences might occur to you. There is where we go wrong, we don’t THINK, we fail to PONDER and PERCEIVE. In this fast paced life, many think that thinking is a waste of time. What I believe is sometimes just pausing for a while and giving a thought can make all the difference, to our lives, our perceptions, our realities and our worlds. I urge everyone to be careful of these MANIPULATORS, they are sweet-looking angels, who tell you they wish the best for you but from within they are full of deceit and malice. As long as you continue to get dominated by them, you will never truly realize the true worth of yourself. The reason for this would be that you will keep looking at yourself through their eyes and their words will keep resonating in your mind. Take courage, open your eyes, listen to your spirit, strengthen yourself. Don’t be a puppet, take control of the strings of your own life.

Breakfree, Breakthrough, learn to rejoice in your imperfections, because no matter what you are, there doesn’t exist anyone like you. Be yourself even if it is difficult. Take a stand about what you think is right, there will always be someone to oppose, but that should not make you a coward. Look at yourself in the mirror, there is more to you than what the world thinks of you or has made out of you. Discover yourself and once that you do, stand for yourself. You are precious and you will always be.