19/01/2019
DETACHMENT.
This term have been haunting the core of my thumbprint the last couple of months.
Self Discovery, self love and our inner workings has a lot of strings attached to society, it touches the core of who we are, and who we wish to be.
Society still resides ,at times, in many boxes. How things should be, where everything fits, how the timeline of your life should look like. School. Job. Getting Married. Having Kids. Where you should be right now in your timeline.
What if your timeline looks different? What if your way of living doesn't correspond with your next door neighbour, does this make you wrong because you don't seem to fit the mould that life has created?
Life doesn't create anything for you, you create your own life. What you allow, what you put out in the universe, what you achieve, that is all on you, your reaction, the way we deal with the stumble blocks, even the way you see opportunities, that is correlated to how you master your mind.
Failures only remain failures if we don't learn from them and grow from them.
My greatest challenge this year is to educate myself on detachment. There's a saying that goes,
"Detachment is not that you own nothing, detachment is that nothing owns you."
If you can detach yourself from external factors like jealousy, negative energy, depression, there is immense power and strength in that. Being detached doesn't mean that you are close to nothing, in fact it means you come closer to who you are, where you want to be and to connect with the elements essential to YOU. Not society, not your family, but to YOU.
There is a very powerful quote by COOLEY.
I'm not what I think I am, I'm not what you think I am, I am what I think you think I am".
Climb out of the boxes you put yourself in, define certain elements important to yourself that looks after your head (how you grow, learn & live) , your heart (how you feel & react) and your hands (what you do). Find your path and then live it up.
Ezelle Louw