If you could turn back the hands of time, what would you un-do? If you
could change something about you, what would you change? Do you
unconditionally love, accept all of who you are warts and all?
These are questions that when asked without much pondering, people shoot from the hip answers galore without really considering the weight behind them.
These are questions that when asked without much pondering, people shoot from the hip answers galore without really considering the weight behind them.
Here’s the first disclaimer of the day, I would change tonnes! I have a
long list of things that would undergo a snip here, a tuck there, till
I’m at the periphery of perfection. And I would be happy, seemingly. But
has anyone except me noticed that happiness is fleeting, fickle and
ephemeral if we care to get down and dirty with the queen’ lingo?
It always needs a new high, a new fix, the old just won’t do. Be content with the clothes we have? Banish the thought! Not when Gucci, Prada or whichever other designer of repute still breathes oxygen and spews fabulosity we tell ourselves.
And we incessantly pick at and fault our outer shell, saying if this was there and that was no where, we’d be the epitome of perfection, the abode of contentment, the transcript of tranquility. But if you look closely, many of those who’ve achieved their dreams with the notion that once they get to them they’ll find happiness, end up being disillusioned.
So what pray tell are we to do to become content, happy, find the ever elusive feeling of serenity?
Be-you-tiful!
Huh? Yeah, be you, do you, rock you! So we’ve heard it ad-nauseam that should we start to be at peace with who we are, then peace shall come to us, that it’s become an old record that irks as much as it teaches!
But really, isn’t that the key? We try and unlock the secret to happiness; forgetting happiness is what we feel because of circumstances, whereas JOY is what we possess in spite of our circumstances.
Nobody says accepting all of who you are is the elixir to all your problems, there’s no magical cure here, all it does is pre-empt life’s ability to bring you down when emotions start their ebb and flow.
So again I ask you, what do you hate about yourself? What would you change? What past mistakes would you erase if you had the power to?
I’m learning to see experience as an account of lessons learned, from situations where I was burned. Because of what I know now, there are pitfalls I can avoid, and I’m better placed to handle bigger challenges, and fight more ferocious giants.
One of my favorite sayings states that the warrior is a child, nothing more. All he is, is an amalgamation of trainings, strengths, challenges he’s overcome, battles he’s both won and lost, scars, broken bones, feelings of inferiority, but most of all, a conquering spirit. So before you go on and jot down your list of flaws you’d want to erase, remember that knowledge begets knowledge, what you are now, is but a result of yesterday’s pain that you lived through. Go on, love yourself, smile at your reflections, love the sound of your voice, or the look of your scars though unsightly, at you are here to glow under the sun’s rays. Be-you-tiful.
It always needs a new high, a new fix, the old just won’t do. Be content with the clothes we have? Banish the thought! Not when Gucci, Prada or whichever other designer of repute still breathes oxygen and spews fabulosity we tell ourselves.
And we incessantly pick at and fault our outer shell, saying if this was there and that was no where, we’d be the epitome of perfection, the abode of contentment, the transcript of tranquility. But if you look closely, many of those who’ve achieved their dreams with the notion that once they get to them they’ll find happiness, end up being disillusioned.
So what pray tell are we to do to become content, happy, find the ever elusive feeling of serenity?
Be-you-tiful!
Huh? Yeah, be you, do you, rock you! So we’ve heard it ad-nauseam that should we start to be at peace with who we are, then peace shall come to us, that it’s become an old record that irks as much as it teaches!
But really, isn’t that the key? We try and unlock the secret to happiness; forgetting happiness is what we feel because of circumstances, whereas JOY is what we possess in spite of our circumstances.
Nobody says accepting all of who you are is the elixir to all your problems, there’s no magical cure here, all it does is pre-empt life’s ability to bring you down when emotions start their ebb and flow.
So again I ask you, what do you hate about yourself? What would you change? What past mistakes would you erase if you had the power to?
I’m learning to see experience as an account of lessons learned, from situations where I was burned. Because of what I know now, there are pitfalls I can avoid, and I’m better placed to handle bigger challenges, and fight more ferocious giants.
One of my favorite sayings states that the warrior is a child, nothing more. All he is, is an amalgamation of trainings, strengths, challenges he’s overcome, battles he’s both won and lost, scars, broken bones, feelings of inferiority, but most of all, a conquering spirit. So before you go on and jot down your list of flaws you’d want to erase, remember that knowledge begets knowledge, what you are now, is but a result of yesterday’s pain that you lived through. Go on, love yourself, smile at your reflections, love the sound of your voice, or the look of your scars though unsightly, at you are here to glow under the sun’s rays. Be-you-tiful.
Kibali
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