Why are we dragging our lives in the same chair with same job? When we know the destination is not what we were travelling for?
I hate it each morning. The struggle to get up and catch the brain thoughts to gather for what actually I need to do today. Mornings are so peaceful like you always want to wander in them, you slide the curtain a little bit aside and see the pleasant weather and think to yourself wow! Wish I could just runaway somewhere and struggle myself well with the trees and the wind.
I dont want to push my ass back to the same seat for hours and worry about the thousand things that I can actually do but I have little faults and a lot more procrastination. I am so guilty myself to be not able to at least stand up for what I want. I have so many plans and widgets already made out to make the plot a reality but all I can see is frustration strangling from each side and pulling me down to my knees.
And wonder if it's only me! In Fact every 4th person out of 5 is feeling the same way. But rather than turning this page to a better story, we sit blankly and keep etching on the keyboard keys.
There are few Sundays when our cupboards are required to be cleaned. Some holidays where we need to do the laundry.
Its a routine and a vicious circle where we are just rotating like a particle in the galaxy. No one knows our existence until we achieve something for ourselves. Why do we keep dragging the note of our jobs and lifestyle so much?
Its considerably because we are afraid to take risks.
1)RISKS: Yes! We have such a little capability of trying things and risking ourselves that we choose dragging over it. People say its your age to take risks , take it! Do it!
Do you realize there is actually no age but a compassion that is needed and we certainly lack it.We can always start fresh even when we have least resources. We can say nothing to anyone and still go in dense forests looking for deep answers. We can risk switching jobs, sit idle for a while and think what is next, take a break to just travel!
Just take a risk!!
2) Community: We are always bothered about what will people say! I have seen people not so looked upon by their own loved ones thinking how will the world portray it as! Will they approve? Will they accept the way I am?
Can we just shovel it and think about how will I feel when I do this? How will I feel when I express love? When I choose my path? When I care little about things? When I need not pretend to be someone else?
Stop Thinking about others, carry your own self!
3) Not Possible: It is probably the third most effective reason why we fail to get up and choose life for ourselves. People told me its "not possible".
Well yes! People have opinions and they are in a comfort zone so when I try escaping the usual balance of life, I am controlled by them. I am strangled and made to think that this wont work and I give up! I think, rethink and finally their thoughts take over me completely.
Never think what you want is not possible, If it would have not been possible it wouldn't even have touched your thoughts ever.
4) Money: And there we go to the most important, subdued and enthralling factor: MONEY.
There are videos that show us people leaving everyone behind, leaving their jobs and livelihood everything. We see for 3 minutes, feel inspired all charged up and galvanized. We start revolving and writing stuff about what are we going to do and suddenly after few hours we are there at ground zero. Thinking, where will the money come from!!!
And there we stop. We calculate our expenses, rent , food and expenditure and freeze. To our minds it shutters that without money I can't survive, for that I have to keep dragging by job. Money is important, could buy you everything, but surely not satisfaction!
Kill your dreams only when you know you will live with your money forever!
Just don't drag it along. Get up from the seat, take out your old painting box that has hidden thousands of your wonders, open the seal of the new notebook and start writing, rent a new home and live with yourself, find your passion and live with them. Because not everyone desires to be what they are doing, may be someone else is!!
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7 年Good read Ankita. Good to see you as a Creative headed writer...!
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7 年Awesome...anyone can relate to it and give thoughts what's going in their life currently.
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7 年Well Written ! Best Part - "Do you realize there is actually no age but a compassion that is needed and we certainly lack it" #Reality