YOU NEED YOURSELF
“Don’t’ be satisfied with stories – how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” Rumi I f we sincerely seek answers, won’t we find them? Similarly, if we sincerely sit alone, listen to our hearts, trust, and go by it, won’t we do well in life and be happy, too? The more I think on what I have just wondered, the more I get convinced, that most of us are afraid to seek answers sincerely… that, we don’t sit alone, don’t listen to our hearts, don’t trust, and don’t follow our hearts. If so, how can we do well in life and be happy? “You don’t need me,” I was yelling at some of my students, yesterday, “You need yourself.” Well, at their age, did I know what I know now? No, I didn’t. So, there is hope. Yelling is my problem; not theirs. ‘Self-improvement’, ‘Self-development’, ‘Self-growth’… These expressions, I think, have been highly manipulated. When I try to help someone telling my story – how I did it – it, no doubt, sounds nice, exceptional. But, that’s my story… ...