Well, it feels so good to be back on my blog and writing again but this time, I'm back with something that could be a little bit common these days and how it occupies a major part of our lives. It's how our lives could hit rock bottom in one second and all of a sudden, you're just on your knees.
I understand how most of you are already going through enough in your lives, and by now, something already came up to your mind. That's the thing I'm talking about. The thing you can never get off your mind, the thing that makes your tummy rumble whenever you think about it and just go nuts when you remember it. The thing that left a huge print in your life, so huge you can't even control it and you can't get rid of it. Something you never thought you would be able to get it off your chest and get over it but let me tell you something. It's about time you just throw all this away. Oh yeah, it is. Get a paper and something to write with now.
-The key to having a moving on-life lies in the bottom of 'getting your thoughts organised' sea, and you might be wondering why I've called it a sea, and that's because being organised isn't just a small thing, it isn't arranging your clothes according to their colours but it also includes arranging your thoughts according to your life. I strongly believe that we control our lives with every single detail and life-event going on within itself. It's by your own choice how you decide to spend your life and amazingly, most of us, if not deliberately, choose to have it the hard way. Why have it the hard way when you can live it the easy way? Why do we tend to drown in our negative thoughts and not-happening life scenarios? Honestly, this is just normal and it's totally fine but the real question here is, Do you let these scenarios control you? A simple thought to decide your future, and how you're going to live? Seriously? Oh heck no! Can't you see it? Can't you see how simple it is? Everything flips upside down depending on how you look at it?
At my school, they used to teach us this autobiography written by a famous Egyptian writer called 'Taha Hussein', who was blind. This guy was raised in the countryside among many other kids as his father had 2 wives. At a later stage of his life, he lost his grandfather,grandmother,sister and older brother in one year. The year after, he travelled with his oldest brother to Cairo in order to begin his studies at Al-Azhaar,he's blind. The young boy grew up to be a Nobel-prize winner and one of the greatest writers ever happened in our Egyptian history. He grew up teaching us that our past depends on how we print our present, and our future depends on how we look at our present. He used to be that blind boy who couldn't feed himself and whose brother took him by the hand to where he studied. It's so amazing to see real people with real life obstacles who managed to achieve their dreams by forgetting their past and giving much of their effort into the present. Let me tell you something, you can be one of those people, maybe not a Nobel-prize winner, but a real life problem analyzer and solver.
-As I said, it's how you decide to look at it. I'm a senior this year and words aren't enough to reveal the amount of studying I have got yet long term-thinking is put into consideration. For many others, it isn't just your studies. It could be your emotional life, which many of us have been through this already. It could be your social life or whatever. You just gotta throw yourself ahead of everything else and see where it will lead you. So, in the paper and pen you got, I want you to write 'PAST' on one side of the paper and 'PRESENT' on the other side, and on the top of each side write the following:
My life is my decisions. My decisions are my choices.
-Yep, that's it! Now, I want you to remember as much as you can, everything that happened to you during the past years and affected you completely. Write them on the left side of the 'PAST' side. Now I want you to draw an arrow from every single event you had written and write how these events ended and how it changed you, if it did. If the past events are still going on till this time just draw an arrow and write 'present'. Now on the other side, the 'PRESENT' side, I want you to write everything that's going on with your life now and again, an arrow from each event you wrote down. Now, I want you to put in mind that if you're gonna think about everything at once, believe me, you're not going anywhere. Based on what we talked about in Past and future, you might as well guess that 'PAST' side of the paper is of no importance now. Total rubbish. I mean it! Every single event, no matter how big or small, if it's past, it's gone. It's no longer there to think about or give it your attention but as for the present time, what's the thing that should occupy my time and thoughts. Now, on the 'PRESENT' side of the paper, you had drawn an arrow from each present event and now I want you to write on the other side of the arrow wether this event will build you up and move you forward or will it occupy a useless time of your thoughts?
-Giving much thoughts about what's useless for you will drift you away from putting your eyes on the real prize which is dealing with more important events going on in your life. Growing up, we have to understand the meaning of 'time management' and that it doesn't only apply on our actions, but our thoughts. I believe you have your paper right now, I want you to be honest with yourself, that's the whole idea behind the paper, writing your thoughts and then you can arrange them yourself. Different people yet similar events which make us all the same to each other, but hey, God didn't give you a brain to ignore its use, or misuse it, He made you special by giving you the ability to 'think' and 'evaluate'. To think and evaluate what you've got in your present life. To think and evaluate why you're on your knees right now! We tend to make a big deal out of anything and we're the type of people who lie and believe themselves later on. No! No! I want to tell you that every single race you're running now depends on how you see the track you're running in. Some people succeeded in seeing that track a short and easy one which they can easily run while others were like:'Oh man, I gotta run aaaallllll this!' Isn't that just remarkable? I mean, you don't understand the power you got in yourself! And I'm talking to each and every single individual out there, YOU GOT THIS IN YOURSELF. Only you can realise the beauty of dedicating your thoughts to building your life instead of wrecking it. Remember, it's only by the present you decide how your life goes and no matter how bad or good your past was, I'm telling you, YOU, and only YOU, have the power and ability to rise again from the ashes of your past, determined and grateful. Grateful to your past, that made you what you are today, and let you know that it doesn't matter what happened to you but what matters is what you'd allow to happen later on!
-To sum everything up, look at your paper now and look how small and tiny your life events are compared to HOW YOU see them. Never give an event more time than it should and never allow anything to bring you down on your knees, because ONLY YOU can decide whether you'll be on your knees or not. When life knocks you down, you show life that you've got your own shield! A shield of decisions and choices! A shield so powerful that it'll help you up on your feet again and never let go of your priorities. You've got your own life and your own shield, use it and never allow yourself to be downgraded by anything and when a wave comes at you, I want you standing staring right at it and say:'Hell yeah! I'm gonna surf this!'
