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Saturday, November 19, 2011

LET'S UNCOMPLICATE, SHALL WE?

..On my wall the colours of the maps are running
From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming
The torches flare up in the night
The hand that sets the farms alight
Has spread the word to those who're waiting on the border

In the village where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
Still you never see the change from day to day
And no one notices the customs slip away

Late last night the rain was knocking at my window
I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow
I thought I saw down in the street
The spirit of the century
Telling us that we're all standing on the border

In the islands where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
It's just the patterns that remain
An empty shell
But there's a strangeness in the air you feel too well..



I feel free, like i have somehow finally broken free of the shackles that had tied me down.
And no, it's not the exam related stress that i am refering to here. It's so much more.
Exam stress had simply brought it all to the fore, making me feel everything so much more minutely and strongly.
But something has changed, something within me, and changed for the better i believe.
It was something that Dev said, which for once made absolute sense.
I won't say here what it was, but suffice to say, it was one his rare (very rare, heh) gems.
We have quite a few of those discussions, but nothing he has said in all these years has made as much
sense as that one sentence yesterday.
And you know what, when you think about it, you realize that you unnecessarily complicate things.
You think about something so much, you add so many dimensions to one simple thing, that it becomes this
monstrous problem, which makes you think about everything, analyze everything, evaluate everything.
Why do that? Why at all? When you did something, said something, felt something, you did it because it felt right.
Then why spoil it all, now, by analyzing the reasoning of your decision at that time?
And, when you know that something is bothering you, why make it worse by trying
to figure it out more? Why not let it be, ignore it and distance yourself from it?
It's such a simple thing to do, and dare i say, something i am much experienced in.
Problems become so big and all encompassing because we make them so, because we let them matter so.

You always, ALWAYS have an option. Depends on what option YOU decide to go along with.
If you decide to let something bother you, you lose the right to complain.
And it's absolutely lame on your part to blame anyone else for making you miserable.
The only time you can miserable is when you choose to be so.
And i for one, am tired of it. I am a happy person! Always have been! Why change that?
I have never before let anything become so big a bother in my head, so why now?
Everything is so amazing when you choose to let it be so. For every one bad deal you are dealt, there are about five good ones to compensate for it.

Life is like a SWOT analysis if you think about it... you've got your Strengths, Weaknesses, the Opportunities and Threats.
Maximize your strengths and make full use of the opportunities.
Minimize the impact of your weaknesses, blunt them, to defend against the threats..
It's that simple really! :)


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