Basking Brooks

The gift of you

“If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.”
– Andy Warhol

Have you ever stopped to wonder if the person who you are right now, is the actual you? Can you honestly answer such a question without hesitation?

We live in a world with a society so biased and inquisitive, waiting to pounce upon us and devour our world mercilessly, if given the slightest opportunity.

To be ourselves is one hell of a difficult task, because the world is constantly trying to make us something or someone else.

Always remember one fact: ‘If your way of being yourself and living your life doesn’t tread into other people’s lives and cause trouble, then be free to choose it.’
If you continue to live your life based upon others’ views and comments, then why are you even brought into this world – the purpose becomes beaten. At our young age, we do not care about the views of other people.

As we grow up, those so called people and their so called opinions matter more than our own interests. This salvages our life in ways that can only be defined as self-torture.

Don’t be misled by the fantasy that the world is creating. Everything is a magical façade, that can and will get washed away when it rains.

If you are not interested in changing your mobile phone to a brand new hi-tech one that has become a hit, and everyone is just passing all sorts of comments about you not being interested, then please do not join the
mob.

You are genuine and unique in a world filled with geared up lies and mysteries. You are born so that you can become the better version of you, and not a fake whom everyone forces out of you.

Be good and be yourself which may not be as easy as it sounds. Let go of the things and people that threaten your way of being your version of you. Let your mind not be caged inside. It is not meant to be treated like that. The world is sick of fakeness and is already choking on it. It is high time to bring the originality into our character, our behavior and activities, our desires, our hobbies, our love and everything. What good does it bring?

We may have to lose certain people because we want to be ourselves. We may be afraid to lose them. But, is a person, who doesn’t accept you
for the actual person you are, worth keeping around? No! We already act a lot daily.

Even when our whole world has come crashing down inside our mind, the courtesy ‘Good mornings’ and ‘How do you do-s’?’ are a must because, no one cares about how you are actually feeling. When asked ‘How are you
today?’, you are always accountable to answer only the evergreen answer ‘I’m fine’, even when you are not, with a smile so fake, hovering over your lips.

Isn’t it the wrong way to live?

You may argue that the world is moving so fast and you’ve got to keep up to it. But, at one point of time, when you are old, retired from this ‘busy-world’, ironically the time would seem to stretch like a lazy river.

When you sit and watch your own life flash before your eyes, if you have one single regret, something that you wanted to do so much but,
didn’t… how would you feel? Fine? Can you muster up enough guts to face yourself? At that point of time, the mind would realize the universal fact:
‘It had all been one huge lying drama on a fake stage of glitter and glamour’.

And, no one, I repeat ‘no one’ cared and thought about you, as the mirage image you had engraved in your mind (Of course, thidoesn’t
include the few true souls that love us deeply).

You were wrong all along, living your life with others opinions as guidelines.

The same way you spent a few minutes gossiping about someone along with your friends; the same way you judged someone and inflicted your views upon them… others would have been doing just the same for you.

When you were gossiping and commenting, were you truly uttering those words from your heart or just to mingle with the group? If the former, you are actually heartless and a jerk, if the latter, then this is for you. So, now, if you can simply forget what you said, why would others remember you?

You are not so very important to every single person you’ve come across in your life.
Please prioritize the people in your life and then direct your feelings accordingly toward them.

Not everyone needs to fall in love with you; go through your hard times along with you; give you a shoulder to lean and cry on.

So, stop being carried away by the plastic way of living. Even the way you breathe becomes an interesting act which is the worthless, senseless, truly a hollow way of living.

Stop criticizing others for being themselves, because, good-hearted people are rare on this planet and they may not shout out loud, but, they suffer inside.

And, don’t give importance to everyone’s approvals and interests, for anything that you want to do or be.

Gossiping and trolling are sick ways of conversing and sharing among people. It just means that you are indeed a sick human with a sick personality.

Do not hurt others’ feelings; live a life that gives meaning to you and make those who are dear to you, happy. Live with long-term improvements and betterment for your soul.
During your final days, when you feel contentment in your heart and you want to go without a regret or pain, then it is said that you have lived.

Be the gift you want to gift yourself. Be your best. Live for yourself too, not meaning in a selfish way of course. Live to give your loved ones the joy they deserve from you.