Go with the glow…

‘If you can conquer yourself, you can conquer it all’

In this world of eternal rush, you may find someone, any day who might curb your anxiety and frustration by saying ‘go with the flow’.

Sometimes it is good to let things happen the way they are happening. It’s kind of like not giving a damn and leaving everything on your destiny.

That is not fair right? I mean most of us get to choose the clothes we want to wear, the color of the toothbrush and even our friends, so why can’t we choose the path that is calling us?

I personally feel that letting go and letting be is somewhat cowardly. How can you have no right to control the things that are going to happen in your life?

We usually say, ‘we will see’ rather than saying ‘well you know what, I have given up and I am in no mood of messing up my mind’.

For your information let me tell you that life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you react towards it. Biology has given you a full-fledged mind, make good use of it by choosing the things for you. At least you would own your choices and won’t blame anyone else.

Years ago, when I was just experimenting with my words, I used to change the sayings and give them my personal twist. I thought about ‘go with the glow’, it sounded nice and then I spent some time in extracting out the deeper meaning behind it. The omen hidden behind the words, the light concealed beneath the woods.

Imagine yourself surrounded by so many things that it is so hard to decide. Take your career, for example, there comes a time when you are all stressed about nothing but a stable career. Most of us have a vision, but the path leading towards that vision is translucent.

‘Go with the glow’ means, close your eyes and look at the light that reaches your eyes. Choose that path because it has chosen you. Landed up somewhere you don’t belong? It’s because you didn’t respond to your calling and just comforted your mind saying ‘go with the flow’ and ‘I will see what will happen’. This is not the way you deal with your life.

If you want to reach where you think your heart is, you have to push yourself. Life has the best opportunities for you but they aren’t going to come to you, walk the miles, cross the hurdles and go get them! it is as easy as it sounds but as hard as you think.

Okay, all of us are not born with the inbuilt software of self-confidence; you gather it little by little. You get up every day to gather the dew and fill your goddamn bottle.

Self-confidence is not a medicine that you engulf, it is rather a practice. I also have self-confidence issues but despite ignoring that, I am confronting and writing it down.

When in doubt, try to spend some time alone! this is the time when you are most genuine with yourself and think beyond the horizons!

Take a break and introspect yourself as a person. Look back and see how far you have come. Are you the same nerd who cried on the first day of school or a somewhat grown-up person that can speak fluently on stage or give a seminar? Yes, that is you; you have improved without even noticing!

If you have walked enough miles, believe me, you can fathom the distance and reach the zenith. I, myself started speaking on stage when I was in 8th standard, today, my nerves still hold me back but still I can give a speech.

Life gives you enough opportunities that take you to your ultimate passion. What you do is ignore these small opportunities and say ‘not today’.

Don’t wait for an apocalypse, just do whatever thing is in your mind.

You can never be stable in your life and that’s the beauty of it. You have to ride through the crests and troughs before resting in peace. What in doubt, take out a coin and flip it, not because you are letting your destiny choose it for you, but to know exactly what your heart wants. While the coin is still in the air, the gaze in your eyes and the neurons carrying the electric impulse will tell you what you exactly want. Go for it.

Life is always not about planning out things from the very beginning, it is sometimes about the choices you make in the last moment. The glow is there, see it with closed eyes and chase it. Chase it so hard that you conquer it.

Be a firefly in a world full of cosmic light, enlightening your own path. Rush, wait, or even stop by, do everything it takes to get eternal happiness before your time is over. Don’t live in days, live in those moments that make you smile from inside.

The worst thing you can do is waiting for someone to initiate it for you. Finding motivation in someone else is disheartening because you are letting that thing decide your success.

I haven’t done much yet, but years back I wanted to start a blog earnestly. I counted on my friend and that is where I did a mistake. People will help you when you are ready to help yourself. You are not here to get a pre-cooked meal. If this is how you are going to achieve it, is it even your dream?

Think again!

Honestly speaking, we all look for motivation. We all look for that ‘glow’ in other people, in others happiness. Don’t do that. It’s good to make people proud, making your parents proud! Try to do so by listening to your heart’s call.

I am still in the process, ready to experiment myself; ready to try my hands on things I haven’t tried yet, exactly knowing the things I am good at.

Just one little advice, if you can’t see it with your eyes open, close them and go with the eternal glow. Now question yourself, ‘Where am I?'