No I am not talking about Eminem’s famous rap song. This is actually about losing yourself. Remember your 15-year-old self? You had dreams, you had hobbies that you loved, an art, a sport, crazy ideas. What happened? Where did it all go? In your daily rut to make money, sustain your family and run your life, you forgot yourself.
People often say, “I have changed” or “life happened”. So what? Who asked you to give up things you love, things that would actually make you happy? Because right now, you have lost that one thing that is the most important. Your self.
Like me, you probably do sometimes ask yourselves, “Am I happy, doing what I do?” The answer for some could be yes, that’s great news. But for those of you, who reply “no”. Maybe it is time to change. I read a quote when I was in my early twenties, that said: “If you don’t like where you are, move. You are not a tree.” Very often we forget this. We grow roots in our safe zones, but it’s actually not. All you have done is adjust yourself. Some times I look back and wonder, what I achieved in the last week or the last month. More often than not, it is nothing. For some of us, it may be important to continue with a life of compromises, but for most of us, we just do it out of habit. We are too scared of change. That’s what kills us.
I recently read these words by Croix Sather an inspirational speaker: “Do you want your legacy to be, ‘She was broke, but she sure was good at Candy Crush.’ Or your last thoughts to be, ‘I wish I had traveled more. I wish I had written that book. I wish I had started that business. I wish I had …Or do you want your legacy to be about how you put a dent in the universe? How you make a difference. How you lived up to your potential.”
Find yourself, and be that person.
- The reader is a manager in a company based in Abu Dhabi
