Do You Even Ask Yourself?
If we observe
keenly, how many of us are ready to hear more than speak more? Introspect more
than to judge others more? How much in a day do we talk to our self? In spite
of whining to others, how many of us whine to our self and beg our own self for
a solution? How many of us ask to our self if:
- · We are satisfied?
- · We really are doing things right?
- · We should be proud on our self?
- · We are missing out on something good
for our self? And so on…
Growing up,
we all hear this quote by Shri Swami Vivekananda saying, “Talk to yourself at
least once in a day, otherwise you may miss a meeting with an excellent person
in this world.” But how many of us do actually hear stuff to follow and not
just for the sake of hearing? How many of us wanna dig and explore ourselves
more than finding fun in others? Now here arises a misconception, using which
many people mislead or misguide themselves. People nowadays are convinced with the
fact, that if they’ll be focusing on themselves and taking care of themselves,
they’ll be termed selfish or maybe self obsessed. But now there is an urgent
need to understand the difference between being selfish and prioritizing our
self. We need to realize that we can’t be 24/7 available for people around us.
Nor can be the other person be available for us, every time we need them to be.
Therefore, all we have at that moment is our own selves.
Alone, yet enough! Being selfish means thinking all about yourself, even
when you can compromise on your thoughts to help or save others. Basically, at
that moment, you have an option. But when we talk about prioritizing yourself,
that primarily means helping out yourself first when there are other lesser
things to be concerned about.
Often, we
get indulged with things, we don’t have any interest in. This includes job and
relationships. We wanna believe that the particular option, would help us grow
in life but that’s really not the thing. If you bring down yourself to
introspection, you’ll find yourself in literal misery. This is how the world
works. The more passionate you find yourself in a work, the more you attract
towards it and the more you bloom there. While on the contrary, if you choose
to get involved into something profitable, but completely out of your interest
and not involving self-satisfaction, then automatically, after a point, things
won’t feel the same to you. You’ll start feeling caged and would want to get
out of it as soon as possible. Usually, in today’s era, it is very simple to
buy anything with money, including a whole human being. But some unseen,
unnoticed feelings and emotions are there which are still termed, priceless.
Not because they are not practically available in market, but because money
of any amount is never sufficient to buy such feelings.
Today, many
of us, find our lives monotonous and meaningless but do we ever give a thought
about the people whose lifestyle we enjoy following? Do we ever give a thought
to why the person of same age as ours, living in the same society as ours, breathing
the same air as we are breathing has completely different perspective from ours
towards life? Now there’s a simple and candid trick to it which says normalize talking to yourself and falling more for yourself than talking about others and
falling more for them everyday!
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