The Touch

How often is it that you feel like you’ve started losing your own touch?

I’m nearing the completion of my graduation. Distant friends will be biding adieu with a phrase, “Stay in touch!!” But how often is it, that we analyse the touch of ourselves?

Exactly.. We barely remember. Think about it..

We come across situations, people, drastic changes against the routine, rush, chaos, deceptions, integrity and what not! But we’re seldom able to justify our fight or fright reactions..

And those were just the strings from the external environment trying to pull us apart.. What about the inner self? We face anger, restlessness, anxiety, sudden urges, jealousy, lust, pain, arrogance, etc.. But seldom are we able to feel the real connect between these emotions and ourselves..

Exactly, the Touch!

Self awareness is a must! One must know what makes them feel low, catastrophic at times or simply affected by all those factors enlisted above.

Being able to connect to the self is either a gift, or an achievement as a result of a lottt of practise.. An awful lot..

The emptiness that a person feels despite of a whole crowd surrounding one, isn’t always meant to be because of the absence of their loved one(s). It could be because we forget the most important character of our own stories.. And that’s ourselves..

Before enjoying the company that surrounds us externally, enjoying our own company is a must.. Because as a matter of fact,

we won’t be able to enjoy the external company as much as possible if we aren’t in touch of ourselves..

But the good news is, it isn’t as hard as it sounds like.

You just have to be an observer.

Yes, I said it, as simply as possible.

But, mind you, that takes patience for a cost.. As I’ve mentioned it earlier too, being an observer to your own scenery solves a tonne of problems in life.. And this one, one of the most important requirements for one’s individuality, is surely going to help again..

And once you observe yourself, try to add to your actions.. Like, as a result of your analysis, you would be clearer to see through your actions and mistakes.. Hence, correct them.

Observe the behavioral patterns that lead you to that unnecessary emotion.

And you wouldn’t even realise when and how you curbed the incoherence out..

You must have seen in many interviews of the world leaders or successful people, that they spend some part of the day all alone..

That too mostly in the morning, with themselves, planning the rest of the day’s schedule and/or just being with themselves, away from the chaos of the world, the worries, the emotions, the responsibilities..

‘Cause this empowers them through all individual aspect, in order to get in Touch with themselves and make the most out of their day..

There you have it.

Stay in touch with yourself, for that’s going to lead you to the real You, and hence, the world you long for..

Painful Success

Yes, pain for today. This one revolves around its relationship with success. It’s like an opaque object and its shadow. Can you define one moment of success without paying its much needed price in terms of pain?

Think about it…

Everything’s got a price. Everything’s got some threshold of your efforts to be reached in the first place for it to become a part of your reality. Nothing comes for free; except for advices. And some thoughts that act to be the ladder to success (mind you, not an escape from the pain)

For the pain is inevitable on the course to success. There are plenty of ways that mother nature conveys the same..

Diamonds? These are coal particles pressurised sooo frickin bad to attain their majestic and lustrous virtues… Butterfly? How a caterpillar undergoes the hardships of being a cacoon before transforming itself into a Glittery, Boundless Butterfly…

Endless examples there lie to take inspiration from. And all these show the indespensible relationship between Success and Pain or Struggle, to name it..
And do you think success will at all be legit without any attrocities faced on its way? Will the success be able to hold its tag without the pain?

I don’t think so.. For, if pain didn’t exist, success had hardly held any value… It’s like how you define a good thing till you don’t know the bad one… Two sides of the coin have to exist to choose one.

Pain or Struggle is the value of Success…
Just like any other thing in the world. The price tag of your goal or your dreams holds the honesty you put into your efforts for the same.

Which itself defines how to endure a failure… As simple as that, when would it be that you are unable to buy a commodity? When you are short of its price.. Same is the case of success…

No matter how hard you try, no matter how much of your work you’ve put into it; if it’s not becoming a part of your reality, it means that some more price of it is still balance. Some more efforts are yet to be put in. Some more pressure is yet to be experienced for the diamond to become a diamond and shine undoubtedly.

Failures are an indication saying, “You are yet to become worth the success. Strive harder to prove your worth.”

Till the time you remember the above word, you are sure to endure failures in the much needed manner and do what the situation actually demands..

Any shortcuts?
You can steal a commodity, but you can never run away with it, too far, too long. One or the other day, you’re sure to pay the credit in one or the other form. Be it in the form of excruciating penalties of regrets or the efforts that bear the desired fruit.
Rest, you be the judge. For, struggle is the only tool that paves your way to the goal. Else, calling a goal as yours would be an insult not only to the goal but to the self too…