Fetters

Fetters – They are everywhere. Family obligations, pressures to exceed. Showing needless enthusiam where none whatsoever is required. I like this strange conundrum that I find myself in. This pressing need to achieve something that is not really valued on the day of achievement. You really wonder where your energies and youth were laid to waste. I like this state because it pushes me to the other side. To explore what’s the finest within us. It Waits, bides time, seething within till sadly our justifications and excuses somehow put out the flame.

The vastness of human life and the potentialities are barely exposed and harnessed as we get sucked into this endless cycle of human needs and the need for conformity. Jobs, Marriage, Relationships, Friendships, Groups, Elitism, and a whole load of crap.

We just listen to the mediocrity that is dished on a regular basis by minds that can’t think big or straight. Frightened people who could never dream of taking a risk fraught with humiliation, failure and mockery. That’s all we (so what’s the big deal)lose sometimes as society launches into the most ancient of rituals to demean what we are and what we mean to ourselves. Helping others is good, but how many times have we helped ourselves?

Speaking for myself, I just realised the damage self critique or self pity causes. Having doubts is good, but to the extent of killing the best within us with it is a crime.This has been written and spoken before. But how many times do we realise this as we just speak against our sacred selves, never defending when attacked for things we did were right? Wallowing in self pity or dumbing down the self till nothing remains but the tremendous urge to just melt away in the faceless masses that stand around us, ever ready to absorb us.

Get defeated first, I say. Fall down. Get licked by the challenges outside of yourself. You will discover what lies within and what you are capable of. Fail by Jove. Fail as much as you can. But a word of caution: Fail by doing something, anything; not by lying on the couch waiting for it to come knocking on your door.

Break your fetters. Chains you managed to somehow put around yourself. Chains forged so solid they sometimes cripple some souls for as long as their mortal lives and the lives they touch.

Regards,

CZ