"Truth alone triumphs”, goes an old saying. In this hustle-bustle of life, where creating untrue images for self is a norm than exception, do we at least be true to ourselves? If we are true, we don't need to remember anything. Most of our mental stress and pressure is due to dealing with our false self.
The title of this blog is the line that was said to me on my wedding day. "You'll look well in photos... marriage may be for one day, but photographs are forever". So are we living for a good photo shot?! This may seem a small occurrence, but then, isn't life a pool of small events? It's the small events like these that give shape our character.
Once we start living a life to get approvals from people, then it becomes a habit. People will accept us as we show them we are. But in this course, we too start believing in our untrue image. Then, the disconnect between our self and our fake self occurs, and then comes stress and misery. Now how about dealing with multiple self-images to get approvals from multiple people. Catastrophe. With our fake living, we create fake expectations in others and ourselves. And there is fair chance that we might not fulfill them, for we are not that. Isn't this always the source of all our sorrows?
Progress is the life-blood of life. All our efforts should be towards self-improvement. But to progress, shouldn't we have complete knowledge of our current state? But, by living a fake life, we are nipping all opportunities of progress in bud. I feel the primary reason that we don't feel complete is that we have cut the link between who we are and who we show we are. We are not allowed to make mistakes; we are forced not to think independently, but follow- the herd mentality. We fail, we learn, we progress. We are not allowing ourselves to blossom.
The title of this blog is the line that was said to me on my wedding day. "You'll look well in photos... marriage may be for one day, but photographs are forever". So are we living for a good photo shot?! This may seem a small occurrence, but then, isn't life a pool of small events? It's the small events like these that give shape our character.
Once we start living a life to get approvals from people, then it becomes a habit. People will accept us as we show them we are. But in this course, we too start believing in our untrue image. Then, the disconnect between our self and our fake self occurs, and then comes stress and misery. Now how about dealing with multiple self-images to get approvals from multiple people. Catastrophe. With our fake living, we create fake expectations in others and ourselves. And there is fair chance that we might not fulfill them, for we are not that. Isn't this always the source of all our sorrows?
Progress is the life-blood of life. All our efforts should be towards self-improvement. But to progress, shouldn't we have complete knowledge of our current state? But, by living a fake life, we are nipping all opportunities of progress in bud. I feel the primary reason that we don't feel complete is that we have cut the link between who we are and who we show we are. We are not allowed to make mistakes; we are forced not to think independently, but follow- the herd mentality. We fail, we learn, we progress. We are not allowing ourselves to blossom.
