Happily a misfit

Knock knock…
Who is there?
It’s me.
What do you wear, Gucci?
No, a simple T. Oh is it!!
Where do you eat, at fine dining?
No, I love the street.
So downmarket!!!
Hey, you don’t walk in elegance and style!
I don’t know.
How do you achieve it?
Believe me, I tried!
I tried to read and understand.
I strived to choose the best values,
I tried to live my life humanely,
I preferred kindness,
I connected with joy,
I learned to recognize my ego,
I discovered how to silence my mind.
Oh! I think you have comprehended it wrongly!
For you to be somebody,
You need to do just the contrary!
You will not accomplish anything like this!
Start again. This time try harder.
Kill that compassion. Keep that nose up.
Your head in the air.
And attitude, high.
For you to be valued,
Conceal the true you.
Keep them guessing.
Keep them at bay.
Allow the price tags to talk, Okay???
Oh no…! Why put up an act?
I can’t do all this… !
I only know how to be me.
Authenticity is crucial to my being!
Maybe, I am naive.
Maybe, I will never learn worldly ways.
Maybe, this would keep me alienated.
Maybe, I go astray.
Yet, this is what I choose to be.
Happily a misfit!

Living someone else’s life?

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Scientifically, the Sun never sets. Sunset is an illusion. We buy it for the human experience. We let it soak in our memory. We admire its beauty.  In other words, the experience here super seeds the logic.
What if, one day you wake up and you are told the world is all changed? Everything you thought was you were incorrect. You have no identity. You are left wondering who you are. This is a dangerous place to be, for most of what we think we are, is a role played by the ego. It tries to keep us safe. When we no longer connect with it, whatever we are not, it shun. Like chaff from the rice. What remains is truth. Ego gives us resistance, it numbs us. It gets wounded and reacts. Once we understand it, we can see it is trying to protect us and in this effort to maintain safety at all times, still, we end up paying a big price.
Most of the time we don’t know that we don’t know. We assume based on our conditioning. We rarely challenge our thinking to know why we think, what we think, because, we are taught it is insane. We are taught to live by “worldly ways”. However, so-called normal is what the majority of people do. It doesn’t necessarily mean it is correct. If we are unable to distinguish what is taught to us and what we feel, we can’t possibly know ourselves fully. If we don’t know ourselves, then we can’t possibly know our core values. If we don’t know our values, how can we live them? If we don’t live according to our values then who’s life are we living?
Let’s wake up and check are we living someone else’s life? Today, we might be experiencing the dark night, however, if we commit to working towards our authenticity, we will soon behold an experience of a beautiful sunrise!