Does it hurt you to be in your situation recessively
- without any special events that befall you? Do things emotionally charge you
concurrently within the cyclical runs and loops of your daily life? If it does,
then let me congratulate you; for you are still alive and disruptive. Feeling
that you will always need within yourself - to survive, conquer and beat the
existential angst that comes with life. Cherish the ‘uncomfortable’ zones in
your life for they are the starting points of everything new and great.
Ever questioned that despite having the burning need
to change your situation you don’t. Yes I said it. You don’t and not can’t –
because you can. It is as easy as taking risks. Risk is a beautiful thing – it
defines you what you are and what you aren’t. How great a thing it is to take
risks early in life and experience all sorts of unsheltered realties. For someone who has not taken risks in life
has not discovered himself, let alone the world and how its dwellers operate.
Aversion to risk is cowardice and it is tragic.
Failing to take risks lead to regrets and mulling over ‘situation’ – even more
so. Why? See, the world today is ever more practical and scientific than
the day before. Even in all of its art and beauty it is mathematical and what
you sow is what you reap – add to it the litigious nature of time - a vengeful bitch.
Time and risk have a close relationship and it says to learn and move on from things
that bind you to your constants and to not wait for the future. Futility of
hanging on has affected many in the world and results have been largely distressing.
You become an encumbrance and considered frail. Frail are pitied and often have
little time and place in this world.
Risk involves being open to a world of ideas and the
ability to absorb multifarious things. You are expected to keep your egos and
tags at bay as they limit you from being what your true potential demands of you.
Habit is the enemy of change. It makes you feel gratified but is limited by
time. Habits consequently transform into misery. Misery begets depression and
failures. In order to thwart misery you need change which entails stress and
tension. Are you afraid of tensions and stresses?
Don’t be - since as opposed to the popular opinion it is good for the mind if
taken in well-adjusted morsels. It’s a gamble and an art. Master it and you
have crossed the bridge of life dotted with distractions and unrighteousness.
Humans are designed to take stress otherwise our minds become dormant and dark.
Feelings of masochism take over with the feeling of utter uselessness where we
are left to face only the unchallenging - and that is a defeatist way of
living. Overdo it and you spaz out or end up taking chunks of years off your
health chart.
To never get hurt, to never feel lonely, to never
feel pain is a rebelling thought and sometimes things are better conformed to.
People stave off taking chances and fill these gaps, to brim-capacities, with
the material world. Materialism only germinates turbulence within. These storms
can not be quenched with brocade dresses, profligate foods, binging and
slogging through life with responsibilities shrugged. The notion is to find
what stresses and risks fit you best.
Risk means adapting to change which occasions that
for every new thing you are going to be questioned. Questioning enables you to
discover and answer other variants of enquiries that would generally be
considered exploitive. These lead to unerring fundamentals that you set for
yourself and experiences that you delimit yourself into- the frame of reference
you attribute and / or allude to during the course of your life. If you don’t
take risks you can’t experiment with yourself and a naiveté is of no
consequence – an epitome of an un-remarkably feeble object. Once you define
yourself with the help of risks you come to know about yourself. Half your life
is about defining yourself as life itself is a constant battle of finding
meaning and truth.
Risk cures monotony and boredom. Legacy of fear is
common and no one wants to be associated to be the ‘run of the mill’. Fear is tied up with mediocrity; break it
and you can stop slaving your life away. Stop being a tool of someone else’s
vision and realize the futility of being a cog in perfectly oiled machinery.
In one of his many satirical videos, Charley Chaplin
caricatured modern life of humans and their dependence on systems post industrial
revolution where the worth of humans have become dreams of machines. Where the
world has managed to mainstream the
minds of mankind to pre-set standards
and marginalize them – numbed to the extent where most now just go through the motions
and fail to realize being taken advantage on daily basis.
Another word for risk can be courage and it makes
you transcend above day to day existence and when you do find a vocation, a
job, an exercise that is so immersive that you cannot falter or question it,
the fulfillment comes through. What is required is to give it a fair chance. A
deserving time and let it season. Feelings of being swept away are secondary
and not a primary concern and you never wait for it. Waiting is inconsequential and however clichéd
it is to be ‘proactive’, as evidenced in the business world, is essential.
Another way of living is to surrender all control as
the highest form of control is to surrender all of it. It is like riding a
bicycle. If we struggle and keep stiffly directing our hands and legs for
control we fall down. The commandments distract us. You can’t prove it, you
can’t possess it but you can be a part of it. Be part of the system, let go and
then emerge. Surrender being in charge, surrender your identity and be a part
of the bicycle. Take the risk of forgetting yourself, what we are and what has
been –stop taking yourself so damn seriously. Part of the process is to believe
in risk. Unless you have in your life experienced the ability to let go,
failed, despite your complete technical mastery – you flow. World gives a fair
chance to everybody to learn the basics of things. How creative one gets with
the finite elements and their integration is a self-effort and a function of
energy; the reservoir that feeds and lets you persist.
Failure and the finality of being a ‘loser’ have
disturbed many and hence many circumvent it by never taking responsibility. If
you let your success and self –respect define through results and achievements you are going to lose every whim
of chance. Winning isn’t everything – trying is. To say otherwise is a societal
value and misconstrued way of life. Creativity is fraught with failures; are
they not praised for their efforts? Success is not a guarantee, who measures
its value, who is its audience, how is it perceived and what if there was a
different crowd or absence of one to assess it. Life is a sum of
interchangeable experiences and features. You keep trying until your last
breadth and that is what is expected from an honest man – yes, till the very
end.
Distractions! – life of other
people who surround you. A new arising phenomenon is of social interactions.
Nobody’s face, a self -painted portrayal of themselves– a fake front can tell
you about their life. Dive into reality, make amends with responsibility and
you will know the truth. Haven’t you seen the agony, and sudden demise of
people who rose to fame and superstars whose success ended ephemerally? You
play first but in the end you play for the audience of one.Self-perceived unattainable goals stems from cowardice
and that is the inability to take risks. Don’t wait for guaranteed formulas and
tricks. Come in to the light and fight.
Courage to love, flow, change and grow is a human condition of success.
Take a risk and be true to yourself.
