It feels like ages here, well that’s because I
am at home snoozing and unwinding. I need a stricter publishing schedule – say 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month, let us work with that. I can’t believe I wrote this piece weeks ago
and I am just publishing it, I actually started feeling down again and my editor referred me to my last blog (not knowing I had not published it). Today’s post is not a call to action as usual
but kind of still on the same path. I just find it hard to talk about something
that doesn’t come from within. There are times when I have questioned the paths
I take and pondered deeply on the justification of some of my actions. I am
pretty sure I am not alone in this. There are moments when things don’t seem to
add up - like you give a particular goal your best but in the end your efforts don’t
yield the desired result. But that is life, for we are not defined by how many
times we fall but rather the number of times we get up. Whatever happens,
wherever you are, you should never stop trying. The moment we stop trying we
start dying, hope is the only thing we have to hold on to and I am an advocate
of keeping hope alive. Hope is that bird which sings in the night before dawn,
it is the shining star that leads you to a place harder than a rock but you still
find courage to smile, HOPE is
everything. Staying positive and hopeful keeps you on track and allows you look
forward to better things even when the silver lining is as dark as the cloud.
It sometimes gets more difficult but staying
true to your cause is not something that comes easy, it is laced with many
distractions and damaging emotions but who knows, may be without it life
wouldn’t be what it is. And we all know smooth seas don’t make better sailors!
The feeling of not putting in enough effort, not trying hard enough, not
measuring up……. but then why cry over spilt milk when you don’t know for a fact
what the next day holds. It is possible that others might appear to have had it
easy but you don’t know how many times they tried and even if it was easy for
them on what basis are you comparing your journey with theirs. You do not stem
from the same roots except when you are twins and even if you are, you cannot bear
the exact same fruit. Each individual is unique in their struggle, life
experience and everyone will tell a different success story. We tend to
complicate life by judging our success by the success of others which shouldn’t
be. In actual sense we are supposed to draw motivation from their stories that
will enable us stay on track.
You probably will not easily spot the light at
the end of the tunnel but believe me there is no such thing as a smooth
mountain. A lot of people have found
themselves in the same position you are in now but they rolled their sleeves up
and continued striving. I am writing
from personal experience, I find it funny but I just see every challenge as a bend in the
road and if I can’t straighten the bend, I find a way around it but most
importantly I don’t stop trying. A few people can attest to that, I believe in
holding on to the tiniest bit of hope while staying on course. It works and you
should try it too. If you don’t make it once or twice or may be thrice, just
keep going. It does not mean that you are a failure, unlucky or something, it
just did not work out, and that is it. You have to keep on keeping on for that
is what life is. So, next time you find
yourself in such a situation, just know, you are not alone, think of the reason
why you are who you are and the life journeys you have travelled. Think of the
very many things that did not work out but still you emerged victorious. Think
of the young girl/boy moving on the city streets in search for something to eat
hoping that may be one Good Samaritan will show up and rescue the situation.
Think of the moments that you were happy, draw back the memories and that will
surely keep you on track.
Help motivate someone by sharing your
experience here, How do you keep yourself pushing on even when things seem not
be working out?
