A Conversation with "You"!!

Let’s start this discussion with a simple question “what wakes you up every morning”? Quick and obvious answers would be your alarm tone, roommates aka other person making noise, snoring of your partner and other countless things. If your answer is any one of those, then maybe you haven’t understood my question clearly. You are telling me the medium when I am asking for the cause. It’s like you are taking me to the broker when I am asking for the owner. So, let me ask you again “What wakes “you” up every morning”?

Confused? So, let’s try again, this time may be I need to elaborate my question a bit more. In order to does that, let me ask you another question, “How do you define “YOU” when I ask you the question”? Does “only” your perfect physique dressed in all vibrant colors that is going to eat, talk, swipe your access card, attend the calls on behalf you actually define “you”,  the whole “YOU”?  If yes, then I’ll take all of your mentioned above answers.  Now considering your answer, let me ask you something when so called “YOU” wakes up every day then do fill complete, so that when you do something, you mean it; every bit of your action is real? If yes then please close the window as you don’t need to read further ;else you can go ahead.

Now, assuming your answer to above question is a “No”, coming back to our initial question, “What defines “YOU””? “Does your mere body makes you, you”? Now you think I am a psychic but no, just hang on a minute and think, every morning when you wake up, what’s the first thing that comes in your mind?  Food, clothes, meetings, friends anything that you are hopeful for, that’ll make you out through the day. But there are mornings when there is no thought in mind, when every beautiful dress loses its charm, when nothing makes sense, you are only left with a single question saying “What am I doing?” , “Why should I go to work?”, “There is no point dragging myself out there and making through the day.” “There is no reason I should get out of the bed as nothing is going to get changed”. “I am not making any difference in this world with my teeny tiny contribution that absolutely no one recognizes”, “that how much I would work, work my as* hard my dream still would be as far from me as it was yesterday or even day before.

IT JUST MAKE NO SENSE!!

Now, as they say little of everything is manageable but excess of anything is bad!! So, when you get these questions from yourself quite often, then it’s time to get the call, call for you, from you, now the latter “YOU” was I talking about. But Which you?

The you that is still sleeping when you are on your way to work,

The you crying behind your broad smile,

The you that is caged behind your poised personality,

The you that is screaming in your silence,

The you that is desperately looking for help in your moment of success,

The “you” that is getting weak with every passing day!

But how did that happen, you were all so hale and hearty, waking up on time, have all fancy job, everything is such a bliss then what went wrong? Technically speaking it’s a classic case of OS failure; but then how the system is still functioning? Interestingly human body is installed with two different operating systems. One that controls actions of your hardware as in your body and other one controls your heart, your soul. Now, when we were born God put in both of the OSs in synch but as we grew, continuing our legacy of making things complex, we tried different experiments with our OS. Now, changing your body OS would have outlawed the human anatomy rules, so most of lab work went to soul OS. Android, IOS, LINUX, BADA, Windows every new product in market gets downloaded and installed not to mention along with malwares. Now sometimes the OS synched but most of the times they just couldn’t cope up with each other’s attitude. So, your soul OS shuts down, but as clearly your body OS failure is visible, your soul OS is quite hard to get recognize, resulting in you function with a completely out of synch system! Resulting in “absent mindness”, “frustration” “absurdness”.  

So, all of this time you were actually working with a failed system!

How to troubleshoot this system?

Like eating 3 times (more or less) a day keeps your body healthy, similarly your soul needs food. So, while you treat yourself with amazing taste pallet including pizza, burgers and fries did you actually fed your “Other You”? Did you ask yourself what you want? No? Then get up now stand in front of mirror , look eye to eye to the  person in mirror and try to find that person. When you find him:

Ask him what does he want?

Console him for all of the things going on.

Motivate him for the next challenge

Promise him that he’s not alone and

You’ll  always take care of him!

Its basic human nature we need warmth, empathy to survive in this harsh world. We normally expect it from others but very first affection for you comes from yourself only. So, next time when someone says take care of yourself, take that seriously!

Link to my other articles:
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Monday Blues!
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The Mini Boss Syndrome
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