A Love Letter to Myself :)
Hi Medium,
So I don’t know how its done. Frankly speaking, I am writing as I am thinking because I am doing this for the first time. The only piece of writing that I do is fill up a journal everyday about how grateful I am about things which also I’ve started like a month back, so an absolute noob at this. This journal has weekly tasks for me and I felt that if I am in this, I should do it properly. So this week’s task was to write a love letter to myself.
Hmmm so here we are, Its not as easy as it sounds and probably thats why its a weekly task. Because the moment I started thinking about myself I went blank. So What I am going to do is, think intentionally about all the good things in my life and articulate those thoughts here.
Let’s see how it goes!!
28 years old, decent job, good work life balance, living with a lovely set of parents, have a good set of friends, pretty chill social life and not that I am in a relationship now but all good n great overall. This is the current ecosystem I live in. I can safely say I am in the happiest phase of my life and I know the reason as well. Everyday, as I am going through the day I see and observe hundreds of things that used to spoil my mood earlier like gym is too crowded for me, things are not going as per the plan, too much traffic on the road-stupid people don’t know how to drive, Incompetent people at the job just showing off....….etcetera etcetera. I used to get grumpy very easily and it reflected in my mood affecting me and good people around me who genuinely cared about me. What did this bring, NOTHING but only complaints, animosity and very weak mental/emotional resources.
I used to victimise myself and always blame tangible and intangible things around me for my plight. But soon I realised, that’s not way to live, honestly speaking that’s a pathetic way to even die. We need to take extreme ownership of our actions and cultivate a sense of responsibility for our being. You want to be happy, Start counting your blessings. Thank your stars for an ability to breathe, for having a body intact with all 4 limbs, for a roof over your head, food as per your wants n desires. You’d be surprised to see how lucky you are when you count these things which might seem trivial to you right now. The world is a cruel place for people who are ungrateful and inconsiderate.
So that’s what I did, I overhauled my thinking process. I started working on myself and improving on a daily basis. Its a hard, I know but its the only way to live the life you want. You can either get accustomed to this and win at life or wait for things to get better without doing anything and let this life eat you.
That’s why they say: happiness is a choice, a journey and not a destination!
As for my Love letter, I believe I have just scratched the surface in knowing myself and believe that it would take me a life time to completely assess my emotions and hormones behind them. But good think is that I have started out on this journey and plan to enjoy the process as I go through it.
And I love myself for it !
Cheers!
have a great day everyone :)