“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are!” Paulo Coelho
Becoming Who I am is a lifelong mission. The world looks at an individual in different eyes. But do we have to look at the world in what makes us unique? Becoming Who I am will look like a lot of rubbish in the eyes of the world if I fail to make money and name… because that’s what defines an individual in today’s social circle. One observation I make of people is their affiliation to clubs, their affiliations to people’s groups and even social movements which flatten out their unique individuality most.
There are times when we got to build our dreams all by our own hands,… by our imagination and by our strength… it may involve relocation, reformatting or a re-new-ing of our beliefs and value systems. We might have to do it simply because “it no longer fits” into our present days or our today’s journey. A little deep voice within us that constantly echoes our passion and vision will tell us of our vocation here on earth. I love to listen to that voice constantly.
The first time I read the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling, it echoed in me an invitation to lead a stoic attitude towards many of today’s social beliefs. “If” left in me a very deep challenge. I got it written on a wooden board and hung it on a visible wall at home. I like that poem in reference to the strong voice of aloofness and individuality. “Come what may… keep going my son”, Kipling tells his boy. The main message is not to get caught in emotions and be carried away by the contemporary flow of the world.
Someone said, “It takes courage to answer a call”. True, it takes a lot of courage to make up our journey, our very own journey and pedal with it all the while.
If we can live a life not to convince anyone and not to be
in an ego trap, …. if we can fail to fall victim of a social belief or to a
world that looks to overtake us… then we can pedal our wheels of freedom, to pedal aiming
the golden sunset of our journey called life.
Still, it takes courage to be
what we are.
Keep going ...
