A Meeting with Yourself

How many minutes do you gift yourself during the day? For instance, taking a shower is one of my sacred moments. Now, while I was deciding what to share with you this week, I had an idea. I have a file titled “Free.” In those moments when I don’t know what to write or have no preference of genre, I open this file and literally spit anything that comes to my mind (sorry for the image). It’s a space where I write nonstop, without rules, without paying attention to spelling or conventions, without judgment or prejudice, and usually without sense. It’s a space where I can be myself. There are no deadlines, no titles, just my fingers scrolling through the keys. It’s a moment worth turning into a poem.

So, I thought, do you have a space that allows you to be yourself? Do you have a moment in your day or an activity where you lose yourself, forget about the outer world, and connect with yourself?

It is so easy to lose yourself. It is so hard to reconnect with your routine sometimes. You have ideas and you haven’t. Tangled thoughts, a desire to say yes forever to laziness. Why get out of your comfort zone if it’s so comfy. Why get up everyday, and as some say, fight your inner demons over and over again. It would be so much easier to let them win.

Then what? Life loses purpose. You leave behind all the things you value — as usually what you value the most is the hardest thing to get. You start complaining again because your days turned monotonous.

A meeting with yourself… this is my suggestion. Allow your confusion to be. Ask for a 5-minute break to your laziness. Forget about the rest and devote to your meeting. After a while, you start seeing things more clearly. Ideas show up. I guess it’s similar to unblocking a chakra. Allow yourself to go with the flow of the moment. Conquer this small battle, and tomorrow, it would probably be easier or necessary to conquer the battle of this new day.