The everlasting struggle of self acceptance… if I was to write down few of the biggest things I have ever overcome in life, this one right here is clearly on top five. Maybe one of the massive struggles Ive gone through is making myself understand the fact that I have ended up where I exactly needed to be! and everyone will agree how difficult that is. I have felt, it is clearly one of the hardest and most unconvincing struggle anyone can ever experience… When I was a kid, my parents used to scold me when another kid in the class scored better, top scores were just dreams those days, or how he’s doing exceptional in that when I never did something. Slowly the mentality of comparison was deeply rooted in me, which gradually led me to believe that grass is always greener on the other side. Occasionally, when my parents used to buy me ice cream, and they still do.. I always used to worry what the other kid across the table had in his hand, rather than enjoying the one I have. The thought was, is that gonna taste a lot better, oh it looks better, it must be far better than what I have in my hand. I was slowly succumbing to the aftereffects of comparison.. It took me a while, but I was not late to figure out that comparison is like a rocking chair, you can sit on it and move front and back with it, but you are not going anywhere with it. You will and always remain where you are, it doesn’t move you ahead, nor it will improve the current situation, nor it will find you peace. I used to get fueled with shame, the unending feelings of inadequacy, used to get stuck and zoned out until that one moment, when I understood that there is no one correct path of life. This is what the society has led us to believe. people around us have paved paths for us and will ask us to walk on it, they don’t want us to create a new path, but just blindly walk on the ones paved by the dead dreams and carcases of many others. I am unique, you are unique, and we will create different and isolated paths as life goes forward. A path that’s right for someone else won’t necessarily be a path that’s right for you, and that’s okay. My life is not gonna look like others because I am not them. I am a distinctive set of goals, obstacles, dreams and needs like everyone else is. I still believe in the fact that if I did not take some bad turns and wrong decisions in life, it would have never resulted in where I am. That is when I finally quit hating myself for everything i wasn’t and started loving me for everything that I am. You may not have ended up where you intended to go. But trust, just for once that you have ended up where you needed to be. Trust that you are in the right place at the right time. Trust that your life is enough. Trust that… You are enough. Blog - mysoulfulreflections.wordpress/
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 13:38:41 +0000
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