The Scary Battle of a Lifetime

Every single day, you rise and you live for a battle

The battle is nothing, other than the need to fit in.

Every single day, we humans are either loved by other humans, or we are told that we mean nothing.

Both ways, it’s a scary journey.

If we are told by others that they love us, we tend to do more of what they want to see.

If we see someone by whom we want to be liked however they aren’t doing so, we will do all possible attempts to ensure that they like us.

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It’s an unending chase. It’s the desire to be liked that:

• we keep checking social media again and again,
• we respond to emails that do not deserve our time and attention in the moment,
• we ignore time with our kids,
• we sit glued to the laptop,
• and we miss out on meditation and exercises.

And at the end of the day we wonder why we aren’t happy!

The best part is, you can still be happy. The better part is, I am not going to give you prescriptions because you already have a lot of them!

Then what is the solution?

The solution is the truth.
The solution is what you already know inside of you.
The solution is that there is an unending chase to the bottom that will never be fulfilled if we continued looking for it.

Here’s a food for thought I want to leave you with:

1. When you be you, at the start you’ll be criticized. You’ll be questioned. More than anything else, you’ll be subtly told not to be you. However, if you continue because you trust yourself, over a period of time every one who opposed you would want to become your ally. In the worst case, even if it doesn’t happen, you will still have yourself at the end of the day.
2. The world is nothing but a spectrum of choices. Everything that you feed your Reticular Activation System (RAS), is everything your life will feed you.
3. Being authentic never goes out of style. Karma is a great leveler, and even if you don’t get to see its responses in front of you, they are being levelled. Every single day, every single moment.

The question is, what karma do you choose for yourself today?