Confidence springs from within. Unfortunately, we tend to seek validation of our skills, choices and our lives, from others. There in lies the problem. It’s difficult to expect people to believe in us, unless we learn to believe in ourselves. Sometimes we have to go with our “gut”.
It is easy for our so called “well wishers” to discourage us, and find the wrong, in what feels right to us to our core. As an example, notice all the people who discourage others from going to college, barely made it through high school themselves? Is it envy? Sour grapes? Bad karma?
The critics are a breed apart. They manipulate the truth and find the wrong, in the best of what we have to offer. Ever noticed that even the best movie critic never got behind, or in front, of a camera? It’s easy to be a critic. Tougher to get the job done.
A brilliant insight from a Hindu Sage, Sadhguru: “Only when you do not know yourself, the opinion of other people becomes important.”
About Hemant Rustogi
As I am in a difficult part of my life’s journey, I am finding that as I walk through this difficulty, I am learning more about who really am. As I discover more of the real me, I am more able to traverse this difficult path. I am also most aware of the people who are really walking beside me. Reality is not a T V concept show