Lock(ed) Down
I hope you fill the pages right! Yes, a little motivation during the lockdown period!
Yet another day has passed and here we are, caged inside our vicious thoughts, struggling to find solace in the middle of a pandemic. A struggle so bad that we let ‘the evil’ demean us. No I’m not emphasising on society, friends, parents or anyone but the evil inside our own selves. That evil is self doubt. We despise ourselves every day because we were compelled to believe that the only beauty which can define us is the outer one and not the beauty of our mind, for turning into a sociopath and for believing that “social” distancing for real is uncool, it is fine if you don’t socialise much, it is fine if you like your own personal space. There is nothing wrong about it. Also, for not being able to turn into another chef this lockdown because if everyone posts a dish on their Instagram story so we have to do it too. These are just a few tiny examples but seriously? This thinking process makes you doubt your own capability? Funny how we look down upon ourselves because the rat race card doesn’t fit our system. Come on you’re surviving a pandemic with thousands of people dying every day. Aren’t you strong enough already? Haha!
As Steve Jobs rightly said and I quote, “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful. That’s what matters to me.” My question is, will you ever be able to say that to yourself or are you gonna die with those vicious thoughts ? It is your choice to make. You can even do something wonderful just by loving yourself each passing day. Stop being so hard on yourself. Pause.
You don’t have to be mainstream in order to feel good about your own self, it takes a lot of courage to stand out and do what YOU feel is correct. It is you who can put your not so mainstream ideas to work, it is you who can prove the evil inside you wrong. You have the keys to that locked cage. YOU.
For quite a long time we’ve been part of a society which has a very monotonous approach towards the idea of success and living your life. I mean Microsoft and Facebook would’ve not existed if Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg chose to settle for a Harvard degree? They got into “the” Harvard University and still decided to not settle for less. They had the pen to their life and they filled their pages right. Pages which they’d be proud to read. They have nothing to regret as they broke the cage of their thoughts. There’s a story of your life too, it is you who holds the pen.
But what is a story without a plot twist? What if that self doubt turns into self confidence ? What if this unexpected lockdown you’re cribbing about turns into an unexpected chance to develop yourself? This is the time!! Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. Don’t let yourself drown in those thoughts because thoughts are just thoughts, not the reality.Therefore, I hope you fill the pages right, before it is too late.