There are times in your life when you wake up in the morning at ten, two hours after you're actually supposed to, and even after wasting those two precious hours of your life, you have nothing to do. There are times when you know you have over twenty textbooks to finish mugging up before your final exams due in a month and you still just feel like sitting in bed and staring at the ceiling. There are times when you lose touch with people who you used to talk to everyday. At times like these, a TV show saves your life. It pushes away your problems into a tiny compartment in your brain and lets you laugh at the latest exploits of Max and Caroline as they try to make enough money to start their cupcake business. Pushing our problems away and convincing ourself not to solve them in the present is a habit that a majority of the world has. Because, in the end of the day we have convinced ourselves that everything will be okay. No matter what happens, when we wake up the next morning, it'll be a new day, and with the change in that twenty four hour clock sitting on our bedside table, comes our opportunity to transform ourselves into who we want to be. However, the same thing happens everyday. We wake up with our minds full of ambition and focus. We promise ourselves that today is the day that we'll live our dreams. Or, today is the day we're going to turn our lives around. We think big and plan our next couple of weeks. But then its time to put our thoughts, hopes and dreams into actions. That's where everyone screws up. (This is the point where this article starts to get a little personalized, so feel free to skip ahead to where it becomes general point of view again.) For some people, the reason for the screw up is because they aren't willing to see if the outcome is good or not. For them the ultimatum is fear. For some other people, they aren't sure how others will perceive their dreams. They're scared that they will be mocked and laughed at. This ultimately lowers their self confidence so much that they throw away the goal completely. For this section of society, the reason is insecurity. After these seemingly valid reasons, there is the reason for people like me. For us, its just laziness. True, there might exist a tiny atom of either or both of the reasons given above somewhere, but the main reason is the psychological mind block that we harbour. It is the minds of these kind of people that are infested with the concept of "It's all going to be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then its not the end". The mind block is present between the undesirable present and the perfect future. The yellow brick road that connects the two, hasn't been made yet. Because that's where hard work comes in. Even literally speaking, we have all seen the construction of a road. Even for something so simple yet important, so many things need to be done. The approval from the Department of Travel, the plan, the materials and the construction in the hands of the labourers hired. Now compare this in a form of a metaphor to your dream. Turn constructing a road into constructing a goal. The things required are remarkably similar. The approval of your conscience about whether its worth it or not, is the the approval required, and the plan is your method of how to go about doing things. Your portfolio and your assets put together to help you achieve the goal, are your materials. In the end comes the most important: the implementation. And just like how if the labourers do not use the right cement or mess up the length and route of the road, it can be a disaster, same way the people you let influence you, are important and have to be entirely trustworthy and responsible.
In the end of the day, we have to construct our roads. Otherwise we can not move forward. We'll be stuck in the same decrepit, lazy and infeasible state for ever. Taking control of our lives is the only way out. It all just comes down to hard work. That two worded phrase is what's going to change our 'before we sleep thought' from what are we going to do tomorrow, to what we did today. And it is that moment of pride that we feel when we achieve something that we are internally proud of, that focuses us enough to be propelled to the next step. Just remember, never give up, because:
"Failure is not the opposite of success, it is a part of it." - Anonymous
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