I love the fact that one’s mind is a place you can escape to. When you’re going through a rough patch, you can always run away to that one happy place in your head and block out reality. Our imagination is like a little piece of clichéd heaven… it might not make anything easier but it sure as hell makes you feel good and gives you that peace of mind for a little while…
You know you’re lying or think you’d come off as a pansy if you admit it- but everyone I know, thinks or dreams of the future right before you go to bed. They might be the things you’re going to do tomorrow or the preparation for your wedding day many years from now… everyone does it! You do it at every free second that you manage to steal from the usual tiring routine. You can make an entire lifetime of memories that you want to- in your head… like sandcastles in the clouds…. (Not sure if that’s the right metaphor :p)
Dreaming is fun… anyone can do it…its not like you require a particular skill or something… no thought is too far-fetched or too ambitious… you can dream of being an awesome pianist, a singer on Indian idol,Paris Hilton’s dog, the lady who design’s the Jimmy Choo shoes etc, etc… (As long as you don’t get too delusional, you’ll be okay… :p)
You don’t feel foolish for fantasizing of these things… because they’re private. Other people might be a part of these day-dreams and stupid fantasies but they’re yours exclusively…
Our dreams are always bigger than us… letting go of the unrealistic ones or holding on to the foolish ones doesn’t make you any smaller…
Thursday, April 1, 2010
BEING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sometimes we need people to show us our reflection- to show us the good things about us that we leave on the back burner and focus on the negative aspects and beat ourselves up over it for all eternity. These negative things are only as big as the importance that you give them. Dwell on them forever and it’s as good as getting it branded into your bones. Forget about it five minutes after it happens, and it’s erased at that very instant.
Have you ever wondered how certain people you know, do the most awful things and are still able to sleep peacefully at night? You think to yourself-“God! If I had done a quarter of the things that he/she had done, I would’ve killed myself ages ago!” The difference between these people and you is that they don’t dwell on these unpleasant things as long as you do. And you start to wonder about your strengths as a person- falling apart over things that are really not that big.
Everybody has a person who is their mirror that shows them the things that are admirable about them. They are there to remind you that you don’t completely suck, that you deserve more than the crappy hand that you were dealt and in a way it becomes your consolation for a while.
This sort of answers the question above. Those people are able to get over those awful things that they did and sleep peacefully at night because they have people telling them how awesome they are. You have people telling you that you’re awesome too but the only difference is that those other people believe it and you don’t. Therefore you continue to fall apart over things, that in theory, aren’t really that big and they move on from experiences that are far more devastating.
It has nothing to do with strength or character or anything like that. It is your reflection that makes it that way –the way you perceive yourself, the way others perceive you and perceptions that you choose to take in and the ones you choose to leave out.
Have you ever wondered how certain people you know, do the most awful things and are still able to sleep peacefully at night? You think to yourself-“God! If I had done a quarter of the things that he/she had done, I would’ve killed myself ages ago!” The difference between these people and you is that they don’t dwell on these unpleasant things as long as you do. And you start to wonder about your strengths as a person- falling apart over things that are really not that big.
Everybody has a person who is their mirror that shows them the things that are admirable about them. They are there to remind you that you don’t completely suck, that you deserve more than the crappy hand that you were dealt and in a way it becomes your consolation for a while.
This sort of answers the question above. Those people are able to get over those awful things that they did and sleep peacefully at night because they have people telling them how awesome they are. You have people telling you that you’re awesome too but the only difference is that those other people believe it and you don’t. Therefore you continue to fall apart over things, that in theory, aren’t really that big and they move on from experiences that are far more devastating.
It has nothing to do with strength or character or anything like that. It is your reflection that makes it that way –the way you perceive yourself, the way others perceive you and perceptions that you choose to take in and the ones you choose to leave out.
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