Einstein’s famous quote – Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.
A spin-off to this quote is:
Insanity is not doing anything at all and expecting an improvement in life
Insanity is accepting your fate the way it is without accepting responsibility even trying to challenge it and terming it as ‘being strong’.
Don’t get me wrong. This is not to point out that you are not strong, but to bring to light this misplaced sense of strength. Your power does not lie in struggling and getting by. It lies in your choice of deciding whether to simply accept the circumstances life throws at you and to live with it or whether to consciously create circumstances that you prefer through determined steps of action. To simplify this, you execute the power of your ability to choose either lying down and accepting whatever happens to you or using your innate primal strength to do what it takes to be in control of your desires, results, and life.
It’s even more important to understand and remember that using your strength does not lie in causing any kind of mental or physical harm to others. Causing harm to others if anything is the ultimate sign of weakness because it implies that you are threatened and insecure and that you do not believe in your own abilities and strength without relying on other’s failure and suffering to get what you want.
Insanity is you feeling all egoistic and sensitive when people treat you unfairly, demean you or judge you but, somehow finding great comfort in treating yourself the same way within the confines of your mind just to avoid even the mere thought of the efforts required to become who you are meant to be.
Once you start challenging yourself mentally and respecting yourself enough to know that there is more to you than your current existence, then people’s opinions, judgement, or negativity about you will seem infinitely insignificant. When you have you on your side, you don’t need anybody else’s validation.
The catch is, simply knowing you are more will only be effective for a brief period of time. However, acting towards your idea of being more will ensure long lasting mental strength, resilience, and tolerance. After all, promises made to you and broken, especially broken by you, will only hurt you and break your trust. And if you don’t trust yourself… well, you may already know how that works because haven’t most of us already experienced this at some stage or still are?
Stop being a victim of your circumstances. The moment you truly permit yourself to determine that you will be responsible for everything that will happen to you, good or bad, you have just experienced a spark of the power within yourself.
The biggest weakness one can nurture, is that of avoiding, disguising, and reasoning out frivolous inner weaknesses instead of simply acknowledging them. You cannot cure a tumor by taking pain killers for the pain instead of first going for a check up to seek the reason.
Do not allow yourself to believe that you are weak and fearful… but at the same time don’t deny its existence. That is not your fault. Be aware of it, acknowledge it and then overcome it because you cannot tackle something that exists but cannot be perceived by our physical senses.
If bottles are broken in your beautiful garden, you cannot pretend that there are no glass shards just because the grass is luscious and green. You or someone close to you is bound to get cut if it is not acknowledged and cleaned out and you could begin to even curse the garden. You could even spend months holding resentment and blaming the people that broke the bottles in your garden. But the more time you spend on blame and resentment while leaving the pieces as they are, the more cuts can be expected. Even if you acknowledge its existence and avoid going in the garden because of the pieces then basically what’s the point of having that garden.
The garden is your magnificent goal or desired result, the broken bottles are external circumstances, fears and limiting-beliefs perceived by you from your experiences and external sources. Now read the previous paragraph again.
You have not matured from when you were a child who believed that you could be and do anything. You have just nurtured and developed the fears, worries and expectations of the world around you. And most of these aren’t even yours, you have just accepted them as yours. Sure, you may have more responsibilities and gained your own experience along the way but are you living the way you want to live…I am not talking about your house, car, job, I am talking about your mindset, your attitude, your fears…I am talking about you…the real you. Have you matured or made a bigger mess of your mindset, attitude, relationships? If you were to be placed as an adult in that moment where you were in the ages between 5 and 8, what would you claim to want out of life, what would you hope to be as a person, what would be your worries and what would stop you from chasing what you really want to be or do?
Life is _____. (Fill in the blank as you deem fit).
Like beauty, Life is perceived as in the eyes of the beholder.
