The New Year has recently rung in amidst the hustle and bustle of scores of tourists and party revellers. Many of us will look for better fortunes or wish to expand our business ventures. Others might look for opportunities to hone new skills and make progress on their undertakings. Some might find themselves grappling between the two and figure out that the closing of another year only entails an expiry date to our unaccomplished goals and aspirations.
It’s an excellent thing to review our performances each year to strive for excellence which comes with progress. Some of us might have to change our game plan with successive failures. Each setback offers us an opportune moment to re-evaluate ourselves and own our struggles. It’s worthwhile if we learn to own our story before someone else talks us into believing that it is our ultimatum. Many might have a string of resolutions that involves dire commitments to various creative pursuits. Those coming out of irrevocable damages should take pride in their story and start regaining confidence in themselves. We have a need to feel a sense of belongingness and so we go about waiting for people to validate our performance, like for example, updating our status and waiting for people to press that ‘like’ button. With successive wins, it gets disparaging when reality hits hard and our popularity becomes oblivious. It’s much easier grieving over our past errors and living in condemnation accepting that it was written in our destiny. We convince ourselves, with that eventually becoming our reality. Sometimes pain obscures our vision to see the reasons that required of us to withdraw from familiar backgrounds that we were accustomed to.
To illustrate, a person who has just been emotionally broke and left to fend on their own, needs to understand that people leave for a purpose and were probably meant to be a chapter in our story. If you are the one who has been responsible for the exit, then you need to reconcile with the fact that you can do better the next time if you understand what led to such disastrous consequences. None of our encounters are ever wasted if we actualise our experience and use it to empathise with others. We can do much better with it instead of wasting the pain. Attaching feelings of remorse or self pity only clouts our thought processes and in turn triggers our emotions.
What drives us to make resolutions? Humans have an unquenchable desire to better themselves and seek novel approaches to enhance their adaptation skills thereby attaching mirth and valour to their survival instincts. As I set out to pen my resolutions with conviction, I thought of starting off with my accomplishments and later on moving on to the tasks that I neglected to work upon previously. Well, with the feel of freshness catching into the bones, I felt it worthwhile investigating our failed targets instead of creating brand new goals in hindsight.
Just think about your present circumstances and how far your past has brought you to the present. Was it worth the experience? It’s mandatory to take inventory of our life. In order to exude confidence and authenticate your story you have to raise your standards and associate yourself with rituals that will form an integral part of your core existence. It’s is only on reaching the zenith of the mountain that will give us a better view of all the struggles that were crucial to our awakening.
