STATUS QUO

So why is it that we live life in fear?Why is it that we say what we don't mean,do what we don't want?Why do we feel the need to be approved by someone else for us to feel worth something?Why so much pain within us and so much pretence as each morning we put on masks to hide our true selves from the public and act like we are different people?What is this need we have to be liked by everyone,yet even Christ Himself,was not accepted,approved,liked by everyone.He is perfect but still even that perfection was not enough for some of us.So what makes us think that our imperfect,flawed selves can be loved by everyone
For those of you who know my writing,I usually write from personal experience.Something that in one way or the other has affected me directly or indirectly.I think Lady Vio,will be a part of my life forever and she will appear in enough of my writings because she,at her death,made me realize the lie my life has been.I don't know how but somehow her life's battle after the accident just awaken something in me and I am glad it did.Discover your Destiny by Robin Sharma has also been challenging me.I found myself asking some very difficult but right questions.It is important for one to ask some questions.Find out why you do things the way you do them.Is it because that is how you were taught or is it because that is what you strongly believe in.As Robin sees it,some of the things we do simply because that is how we were taught to do them.Children are the most free of the human race.They are the most perfect.Children live the truth.Children do what they want,when they want,how they want and care nothing about what society thinks.A child will get away from its parent and run to the front of the church where the Pastor is and sit on the stairs there looking at him!We will laugh sweetly at such an action before the mother is asked to go get the child and somewhat they do it with embarrassment written all over their faces.Her very conscious of the eyes and the child very unconscious of everyone else.I think in a child's world,it is only they that exist.The rest of the world does not really matter.A child will walk naked and not feel anything.You as an adult may feel a little bit embarrassed but the child...After God's love,a child's love is the next purest perfect love.A child just loves.It does not care if the mother is a prostitute or the father a drunkard,it loves without conditions.I know my child hood days are my best days ever because indeed I had no worries and pressures like I do today.What mama chose for me to wear,I believed it was smart and I cared not.As a child,there are just so many joys of life and life is always full of color,never black or white or gray.It is always a rainbow of colors.And I miss that color.I miss that hearty laughter.I miss the smile.I miss the freedom.
I can't say when exactly I lost it.The freedom to be me but I lost it somewhere.When I started being conscious of those around me.When I started seeking approval.That is when I lost my authenticity and started becoming like everyone else.Getting comfortable with being average,not wanting to ruffle feathers in my quest to be different,yet different is how I was created.Different is how my Creator made me.I was not made to be like anyone else and so that is why my efforts to deny myself are so frustrating.Some things just don't work in a different environment but somehow this adopting thing has been taken too far that today I can adopt to not being the best me because everyone else around me is not being their best them.
All pioneers are people who walked away from the crowd,from the status quo and went in search of the greatness that lay within them.All pioneers are people who dared to walk where no one else had walked and live a trail.They refused to be mediocre.They refused to listen to what society was saying and they decided to make their own rules.As long as no law was broken and no one got hurt but it felt right to them,they went ahead and did what their hearts wanted.How many pioneers do we have?Very countable.And why is that?Because we are all busy trying to fit in tis little box that society has created for us.And who again is society?Who are these who decide what goes and what does not?Who gave them the authority to decide how far one can jump?Isn't it just you and me?Aren't we the ones who make up society?So we make rules to govern ourselves only they are rules of imprisonment.Rules that drain the color from our lives.And we are left with just black and white and gray.And in the name of adapting to our environment we live sad lives...
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is an awesome book.Julian Mantle,the man by society's rules had it all.The money,the fame,you name it.He lost his family though and his health and that led to him losing his career.He was reduced t choosing between his life and his career.He chose life and resigned from being a top shot lawyer and he sold everything he had and headed to India.His transformation is awesome.He gets to learn what is really important in life and status quo is not one of them.The day you get comfortable with your true-self,that is the day you will start living life.