DANCE IN THE RAIN

While starting to build SELF AWARENESS could be like opening the Pandora's box, it can nevertheless be handled with care and sensitivity. For beginners, it can be painful. It may feel exactly same as starting an exercise regime - one may go through inertia, your body may start paining, you may feel like giving up and so on. And if we persist, we become addicted to an extent that we can’t live without it.

When you start introspecting and trying to understand yourself, you may experience a sense of fuzziness; mixed messages; confusion with what you are and what you wanted to be; a sense of fear as if you are not like many around you; a kind of hesitation if you are becoming too philosophical and unrealistic and unfit for the present society and so on. It is quite natural! Its like the thunders that scare us as if earth is shaking; it all goes off once it starts to drizzle and then we can dance in the rain - drenching ourselves in the most poetic experience!

It should be a journey that we should start because we are inspired by it, not because we are forced into. Just like exercising after some body ailment and doctor's advice, we also get into self-introspection after some moving incident in our life. But do we need to wait for shocking incidents to learn about ourselves? Are we so boring to ourselves? Certainly not, I guess!

Here is a simple set of questions that I scribbled. They can serve as a starting point. If we know the answers to these questions with some sense of clarity, we must congratulate ourselves. That’s a great beginning! If you feel like, try it out - I attempted for myself.

• What do I have?


• What do I want to have?


• What do I need to have? (please note the difference between wants and needs)


• Why do I need it? What prompts me to have it?


• Am I capable of getting what I want?


• What guides me on my path?