Why be somebody else?

All of us want to be somebody in life. Have you ever thought whom that is?

Why loose your identity when trying to be somebody else when you can be the best of you? You have a great potential and all you need to do is just manifest them and try and find out what you're really good at. Not everybody can be good at the same thing. I may be good at badminton and you may be good at dancing and your friend might be very good at solving mathematical problems easily. 

We can't be masters of everything. We can attain mere perfection in a thing or a two. But, to do that we must explore various fields; even if it means you've to take up a huge risk. We are meant to follow our dreams and chase them. 

It is said that when we are kids, we know what we are here for in life. But, as we grow up we start focusing on the things that are trivial to us and loose the focus we had on our dream, that we were so determinant in achieving. One of the reasons why we give up is because we feel the things that we dream about are never achievable by us.

But like its said, If you want something so bad, the whole world conspires in uniting everything to help you attain your goal. Life is unpredictable and nothing lasts forever. We must learn to love what we have right now. Following your favorite personnel is different than being somebody else.

If its for the good, we can imbibe and bring about the necessary change. We must always empathize a situation before being judgmental about any situation. There are reasons why things happen. Everything is for your good. 

Why thinking about the future can be stressful at times?

Have you been caught up by your past, or lost too much of time in wondering what might happen in near future. We all have! The human mind is the most complicated thing in the world. Just to explain this, we can see how we understand the feelings of the people around yet we refrain to act upon it. Are we just heartless to not care about an animal on the street that is dying?

Let's put it simply, haven't you been asked what are your goals? Long term goals and short term goals? When people ask you lot of questions, you start wondering, " where will I end up in 5 years from now? ". You start imagining things and day dream for a really long time. So, what do you get out of it? We all are just left blank at times. Aren't we?

We have better things to do at the moment, than wonder about our future and what it should be like, according to us. The virtue of the future that we are caught up in, is what the future,"according to us", is. It becomes pointless because we never know what's really in store for us.

Its rightly said in the Bhagawad gita, that

कर्मणयेवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि||

which means- 

“You have a right to perform your prescribed action,but you are not entitled to the fruits of your action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results your activities,and never be associated to not doing your duty.”
 from the forty seventh verse in second chapter of Bhagawad Gita.

But, we might as well wonder how can we not expect anything and just do our duty? We shouldn't get caught up thinking about the future so much that we forget to do what we are entitled to do. We all are here on the earth for a certain reason. We must work towards it and know what you're good at, by trial and error method. There are no hard and fast rules for leading life. Each one lives theirs and writes their own novel. We are also equally curious as to know what happens in the climax of the book and if it all ends well.


All I can say is we must put in all our efforts and leave the rest to the almighty. We must excel in whatever we undertake. That is what makes life challenging and interesting. But, don't forget to have fun in life. You can learn a lot of things by committing mistakes, but, make you sure you don't repeat the same.

Live life. Love life.