The Journey Within

I have to say, looking deeply into yourself is not easy. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Why? I think we procrastinate against finding out the very thing that makes sense of it all. In short? We don’t want to find out about ourselves.

Strange isn’t it?

I love finding out more about my friends. I love to know what makes them tick. I like spending time sitting down, having a latte, and talking about what’s important in their life. What drives them in the morning. What makes them wake up. What is gripping their mind at the moment. What is occupying their attention at this very instant (apart from me of course). I like to probe. I am a tabloid news seeker, and yet, when probing inside myself, it’s just too damn hard…

Why is it easier to pry into other people’s life but when it comes to your own life, you set off anti-probing missiles?

It seems like we just don’t want to find out about ourselves. This is the mother of all types of procrastination.

There are a lot of things that we procrastinate on. Doing the dishes, ironing the clothes, meeting up with friends. Sooner or later, they will catch up to you. The dirty dishes will overflow the sink and onto the work top that you can’t ignore them any longer. You need the shirt for a big meeting today, and wished you’ve ironed it yesterday. Your friends will call you up and most likely scold you for being MIA (missing in action).

But, the one thing that doesn’t catch on to you, is you. If you don’t want to know yourself better, no one will try to force you. No one will come knocking on your door and sell you a “know yourself instant pill”. No one will want to know yourself better. I guess the question comes down to…

Do you want to know yourself better?

“They” say, the truth hurts. “They” say honesty is the best policy. THEY are not you. You get to decide how much truth you want to know. In fact, the body has built-in mechanisms to avoid truths, sometimes at all cost. You’ve heard about how a mind blocks out the past so that he can lead a future life.

Sooner or later, the past will catch up as well. You might be lucky in your lifetime that it doesn’t catch up with you. It might catch up with your love ones. It might catch up with your children. It might catch up with your children’s children. It might catch up with the friends that you tried to avoid. The point is, IT WILL CATCH UP.

So why wait? Let it catch up now and move on. Don’t wait to take that first step to knowing yourself. Don’t deprive yourself that opportunity to know yourself. Get the book. Make that appointment. Begin your own journey. Find out, before it’s too late.

It’s not too damn hard. It’s too damn hard not to…

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