With the passage of
time, life is duty bound in teaching us various lessons. Some, we learn through
happiness, sadness and pain but eventually the purpose was to armour us with
coping skills and what I call- "Investable Power". One may question
my reasoning throughout this article; I'll encourage you to personalise it. As
difficult as it may be to admit, we all struggle with something and it must
have happened in the past.
The first step in
understanding people, is actually understanding yourself and being able to
identify the "thing" which is hampering your emotional and physical
progress. Preceding any life achievement there is always an emotional event,
perception or epiphany or dare I say, lack there of. It is very true that what
so ever we think or develop in our minds will affect the way we live, beginning
with our choices. We can all relate that life isn't perfect and neither is it
fair but are we really creating the future we desire for ourselves? Charity
begins at home so I'll use myself as an example. I'm no where close to the age
of thirty but life has taught me some terrific things through some of the most
craziest events but I am thankful for them. Events that brought me seasonal
joy, pain, hurt and not forgetting tears but it's all where I learned the art
of Investable Power. Of course before I came to that place of Investable Power,
there were things that I convinced myself that weren't for me, people I didn't
want to cross again, walls I built that I thought would protect me from a
reoccurrence of hurt and even worse, I had begin to believe that the life I
desired for myself wasn't possible. Thank God for wisdom because I was quick in
realising that the hurt I felt and the thoughts that I kept on feeding myself,
was giving my past power to control my future life experiences. That is exactly
when I came face to face with myself and worked on adapting to the thought
process, that the best of my life is actually the rest of my life.
There is a junction
in each of our lives, where the path is no longer straight and it forces us to stop and re-evaluate. It's the place
where happiness is looking at us straight in the eye and yet the remembrance of
hurt plagues us with fear, and an emotional fight literally ensues with the
magnetism that ignites our soul in the direction in which our deepest desires
originate verses our fear. That's the place where we find Investable Power.
Power given to
oneself to understand that you're no longer responsible for your past. Whether
it was abuse as a child or an adult, a broken relationship, bankruptcy, divorce
or even a traumatic incident that might have lead to disability. You are no
longer responsible for that but what you are responsible for, is the way you
move forward. Never allow your past to break your will to be the best you.
Although we may acknowledge that everything happens for a reason, the past is
designed to propelle us into bigger and greater things. Moving forward requires
focusing on our own happiness and knowing that the things we went through has
already served their purpose in our lives.
In the quest of
attaining completeness, we must ask ourselves some questions: (I)
Am I living a life unaffected by the hurt of my past? (II) Am I depriving
myself of fulfilment because of a self- constructed wall? (III) Is the life I'm
living right now bringing me happiness? These are simple things to consider but
they beckon us to go deep into the places we choose to shut off. Here's the raw
truth; the past is nothing but a memory and the Future is where possibility
lives, desires manifest and where we realise that we are more powerful than the
scars life has given to us.
Written by:
Drishna Gibson
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