To tell you that times had been hard on me seems unfair to those whose times had been harder. To tell you that I have faced challenges, it is unjust to those people who have overcome those mighty challenges and left a trail. However, yes we do face challenges leaving aside the severity and minuteness of it. Of all the challenges we face everyday, facing myself and living up to my own values and expectations has been the hardest.
People tell us to care less about what the world has to say, instead listen to what we have to say to ourselves. What do you say to yourself? sometimes, aren’t the words the world says the same word we want to say to ourselves? Anyhow, I think it depends on the horizon of your world. The words that you think is the worlds’ is your world. It is merely my opinion and the way how I view the world. My family, friends, the school I attended, the college I attended, the community I was born and brought up, the community I lived in, the community I travelled to, and the country I am from, the traditions I was groomed with is the world I know. The Geography class in my school days taught me about the Solar System, but to this age I don’t really know the number of planets in that system. That above mentioned is the world I know of.
The words of the world really don’t shout and pinpoint at you to be this or that, but it whispers to each and everyone of us to be best. To be yourself. To do what you really love. We have been the world all along and each and everyone of us in our own tiny little progress aims to be at best. The words of the world are very general. Be the best? Best of what? Isn’t it the questions we ask to ourselves from the questions of the world to a personalized self that build the best self? Isn’t it over-coming the self challenge that overcomes the external challenges. Yes, of all the challenges I face everyday, facing myself and living up to my own expectations has been the hardest.
I think it is not the world we shouldn’t be listening to but to speak more to our self through the voices and words the world keep throwing upon us. I don’t regret not reaching the peak of the mountain but for not taking that first step. I don’t wish the world change, I wish I can change.
Wandering Thoughts 