Knowing Yourself...

You have things in life, your life, that define you. Some things which make you, You. Why is it so difficult to understand that you live and lead your life only for yourself and not for some third person? No one at all. Anyway let us not get there. What I want to say is how well do you know yourself? How many of you face trouble with the simplest question like "Tell me about yourself?" and the first thing you start with is "Ummm..ok"?

If you did face this problem and have overcome it here is my applause of appreciation! If you still have this problem with answering this question, Wow! That means you know and remember everything since birth yet you have not been able to decipher your own self. Well now that is an issue. We learn everything everywhere. But the most important thing we got to learn is about ourself. We keep running blindly in the midst of a dessert searching for that one oasis to help us get some strength. What if we already knew about the path we were taking? Won't that be even better? Of course it would. Knowing about ourselves helps us know where we want to reach and where we want to see ourselves destined. We work our path out gradually and move along.

We are aware of simple things say like our food choices, clothing choices and other preferences. But then is that enough to define oneself? Sometimes yes. But only if these choices are our own. It happens that few of our preferences are grown over the choices that our surrounding people make. Our parents, friends and all the people whom we consider to be the best are the most influential people around. Agreed they always think for your betterment and goodness but that doesn't mean they own you or rule you. They are not the ones to tell you what You like and don't. It is totally Your personal choice. No matter what happens if I like cheese and you don't, you won't how much ever close or beloved we are. So there is no point doing anything against your will for someone, anyone.

With all this, remember one thing that you are not being genuine to the person either. What the person sees here is someone who is not oneself! The person interacting is someone whom the person himself doesn't know! Now that my darling is lame and unacceptable. You are being fake knowingly or unknowingly. Respecting your choice will make others respect them too. Also if you do not respect your own choices I wonder how you can even respect someone else's choices. It's not that difficult you know, making choices and sticking by them. You need to confide in yourself with everything that you do. To know the world it is more important that you know yourself. That is how you can live, that is exactly how you can protect yourself or free yourself too. Life is not meant to live on someone else's rules. You make and break your life so you make and break the rules too but on your own risk and then no one to blame for the same. Life is simple. Keep it so.

Cheers to you, cheers to lyf...!