Sometimes or maybe many times, we are evaluating our actions and feelings thinking about the various norms of right conduct in different situations. 'Should I be doing this?' is the question that keeps popping up in the head all the time. The more we strain our minds thinking about any one setting, person or relation, we lead ourselves towards complexity. Stuck between the reality and the hypothetical world of our own, we struggle to keep up with the distinctive standards of the several roles we have to play. The knowledge that we are not being able to do what we ought to leaves us in a melancholic state. It gives a feeling that we can reach nowhere in life...if we continue like this we can never become the person who we aspire to become.
The want to be different and extraordinary demotivates us when we look at the things we do and think how normal and ordinary it is or the way we are doing it is no different...we ask ourselves, "How am I different if I do things like this?!"
We always know, but at times it is important to recall that all of us are unique and more than ordinary. There is always an opportunity for everyone to become extraordinary. All the great thoughts and quotes given to us by the great and "extraordinary" people are only for our convenience, to make us see things more clearly with an open mind. Those words are not meant to be perceived as a command as if there is someone hovering above our minds ready to strike at us whenever we do something that we shouldn't do (according to all the wisdom we have stored in our heads), but of course we shouldn't do immoral and illegal things.
We must preserve, respect and accept our original being. Staying who you are and the words selfish and selfless are very charmingly described by the author Ayn Rand in her classic novel, The Fountainhead. We shouldn't be so selfless that we forget who we are in pretending something we are not.
Excess of everything is harmful. This applies to wisdom as well. Calculating and evaluating everything is not easy. It's better to learn little things and implement them properly in our lives than to absorb a lot of things and being confused. Just take light and don't burden yourself. Melancholy is just an illusion of mind, because at the end everything depends on our perception. It's always in our hands how we want to make things for us. We can make them seem impossible by creating a monstrous image as soon as we are exposed to it or we can be calm and simply believe in ourselves and extend our extent of capabilities. And that is why I believe that Perception is All That Matters.
The want to be different and extraordinary demotivates us when we look at the things we do and think how normal and ordinary it is or the way we are doing it is no different...we ask ourselves, "How am I different if I do things like this?!"
We always know, but at times it is important to recall that all of us are unique and more than ordinary. There is always an opportunity for everyone to become extraordinary. All the great thoughts and quotes given to us by the great and "extraordinary" people are only for our convenience, to make us see things more clearly with an open mind. Those words are not meant to be perceived as a command as if there is someone hovering above our minds ready to strike at us whenever we do something that we shouldn't do (according to all the wisdom we have stored in our heads), but of course we shouldn't do immoral and illegal things.
We must preserve, respect and accept our original being. Staying who you are and the words selfish and selfless are very charmingly described by the author Ayn Rand in her classic novel, The Fountainhead. We shouldn't be so selfless that we forget who we are in pretending something we are not.
Excess of everything is harmful. This applies to wisdom as well. Calculating and evaluating everything is not easy. It's better to learn little things and implement them properly in our lives than to absorb a lot of things and being confused. Just take light and don't burden yourself. Melancholy is just an illusion of mind, because at the end everything depends on our perception. It's always in our hands how we want to make things for us. We can make them seem impossible by creating a monstrous image as soon as we are exposed to it or we can be calm and simply believe in ourselves and extend our extent of capabilities. And that is why I believe that Perception is All That Matters.
