Have you been alone with yourself lately? If not so, when was the last time that you did?

Was there any moment when you were just sitting alone, talking to yourself, hearing your own thoughts and noticing how you feel?

Or simply just being. Just doing nothing and just being.

I bet, you are thinking about it right now. And just wondering if there were even moments like that.

In this dawning of new civilizations, it is so easy to get isolated and lost touch with ourselves. The technology itself, though being helpful to ease our way of living, more often become the main stumble block for us to be in-tuned with ourselves.

What scares you the most? What makes your heart beat so fast and gives you chills?

Probably, there are a lot things to mention that answers this question. Oftentimes, we only look at its shallow aspect.

However, the truth is we fear ourselves the most.

How often do you ignore that little voice in your head that reminds you to do this and that?

These things that the voice asked you to do are what truly makes you feel alive. They are what keeps your heart beat faster with passion. But what do you do? You procrastinate. And you do all those senseless things instead.

How often do we drown that voice inside that screams forgiveness and healing?

‘remember, when you were alone and you were confronted with these voices, you were reminded of the things that you did or the words you spoke and that you were so embarrassed and ashamed that you just wanted to run and hide?

Instead of confronting and facing these ghosts to find forgiveness and healing, you talk about stupid things so loudly just to drown this voice until it goes away. And you do this everytime it comes back.

How often do you say yes even though you wanted to say no?

How often do you compromise, make some commitments and set aside your dreams just to please others?

Do you even remember how that voice inside cried so much for you to notice it?

But still you just brushed it off to the side.

How many times have you tortured yourself with pain and anger and grief?

By lingering your thoughts on past events, people and regrets, you are torturing yourself. And you do that all the time. You pushed the rewind button over and over in your head, refeeling each moments until you feel suffocated and numb.

How many times have you overused your mind and exhausted your body with memorizing and practicing dialogues and events that didn’t happen yet?

Do you know that most of what you have rehearsed aren’t the ones you will utter when the time is right? But you invested too much time and energy that your mind is burned out and your body is exhausted.

You see, these are just mere events from our daily lives. We wake up and rush about to be on time with the so-called work. Then go to sleep at night. Wake up the next day and do the same thing and so on. And we call this life but we don’t even check ourselves if we are still okay, if we are even still alive. 

Why are we doing this to ourselves?

Why do we ignore that voice inside?

Is it because it is always telling the truth?

Is it because it always opens our eyes to what really is?

The saddest part is that, we don’t want to hear the truth. We just wanted to follow the norms blindly. To walk through the path that is already set for us. We just wanted to stay asleep and dreaming while walking this earth.

If so, we are wasting this life.

We are such a waste of a human being.

Are we just to going sit and watch our own lives crumbling down?

Wake up. Now is the time.

 

Photo Credits:

Martin Winkler