Ive been reading this book by Alan Watts called, ‘Wisdom of Insecurity’. I quote a sentence from the book for reference.
“The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead”.
Alan Watts
I have come across tough people who have collapsed at some point of time. They become helpless and try hard to put an act of being tough.
Stop –
STOP Being so tough. Or rather putting an act of toughness.
STOP Searching for answers. Somethings are beautiful when left unanswered.
STOP – Masking – Unmask- start doing this, no matter how embarrassing it is. It benefits you and to hell with people who do not acknowledge.
STOP- being what you are not.
STOP being right all the time. Don’t struggle so hard to be right.
If you mask yourself too much, a time will surely come when you will be tired of this anti-thesis within you.
You will lose your own identity trying to confirm every time with the masked YOU.
No one is perfect, and I surely don’t want to be perfect.
Love your flaws!!
And something that I do subconsciously , laughing a lot without a reason. Well, what a blessing!! Keep laughing.
When I laugh a lot people think I’m insane and that I’m beautiful but brainless. I’m none, thank you very much!!
Rashmi Malapur
Beautiful Rashmi. Simple and straight from the heart.
I feel it’s easy to act tough and takes lot of courage to show your weaker side. Weakness is not celebrated.
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Hey Neelam!! Thanks a ton!! I’m so glad you could relate to what I am trying to say.
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Great insightful writing Rashmi.
One must always be true to ones own self, we must try to attain balance in everything we do. Nature sees neither good or bad, its all about balance.
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