Stay Lit at Perspective

  So the other day, I was reading this book by Mahatria Ra, The Unposted Letter. It has been mind-cleansing since chapter one. And when I came closer to the last few pages, I read the chapter name- You get what you deserve, not what you desire; and I thought what could be so motivating in that? Well, truth has ways to find your back when hit on the wall. Has it not? Last few days I had been going crazy. My efforts always seem to climb to a certain point on the arcade and then refuse to move up on the ladder. Success seems so far. So, so far. And then I read this chapter which sounds so demotivating. What if everything that I desire was never meant to be mine? And then the universe tempts you with these prompts just to check how determined you truly are towards what you have been praying for every day. Who decides what do you truly deserve? YOU. How much are you willing to bend your back to keep standing tall through the test of times? In Literature, we call the books 'classi...

  Defeat is not death. Delay is not denial.  Gone are the days when a king had to run for his life after losing the battle. Life these days do not rely on one such decisive battles. There are regular such nuances, regular such fights, regular such battles. A defeat is but a one more chance to redo all that you have done with lesser mistakes and probably more efficiency. When you do not win, it simply suggest a lack of effort, or maybe someone else did that better than you. But that doesn’t take away the chance of another trial. Does it? If you want something strongly enough, you would try that as many times as Time demands. Letting it go is not a choice when your desire is a burning desire. A defeat is rather a chance to reconsider all your assets- your skills, your knowledge, your strategy. Use them full. Sharpen your weapons and commence again from the beginning. Has not video-games made us habituated with this! A life lost is but a matter of fact till the heart revives ag...