No matter how prepared we seem for tomorrow, we don’t know what tomorrow holds. We go to bed thinking “I will make tomorrow the best day of my life”. However, when some natural disaster occurs, such as an earthquake, everything is turned upside down. Instantly, all our attention is diverted to staying safe and finding comfort. As a result, when everything is settled, we begin making plans again, and we set ourselves up to soar into the stars. We get ready to spread our wings only to fly higher and higher the next morning. And that’s how it should be. It takes intention for a flyer to touch the sky. It has nothing to do with things happening at ground level.
If you notice closely, every day we go through ups and downs, yet we gather our courage, balance our feet, and start walking again. And before we know it, we’re running faster than ever before.
Don’t you think it’s fascinating how our emotions change throughout the day? Even if it only lasts for a few moments, we experience both the highs and the lows. In the morning you may appear calm, collected and composed. In the afternoon, your mood swings and you become sad, overwhelmed, and lethargic for some reason. It’s like an emotional rollercoaster ride. If you have experienced a real rollercoaster ride, you know, there are ups and downs in motion and that’s exactly what happens to our emotions too. Emotions flow in motion. Once you let them flow, you can enjoy every bit of that emotional phase, whether you are happy (up) or sad (down). We shouldn’t look at how these emotions go along with all the ups and downs, but rather at touching the sky and observing all the feelings, sentiments, and emotions that occur during the process (fulfilling the intended targets).
We can’t really hold things. We love our freedom, so why not let our emotions be free as well? Thinking constructively is a choice. Hold on to optimism if you want to hold on to something. If you ever feel stuck, remember this marvellous quote by Elbert Hubbard, “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
Keep your eyes on the sky, and let everything else “let it be.”
Let’s end this article with a beautiful quote and admire it wholeheartedly: “A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of a branch breaking, because its trust is not in the branch but on its own wings.”
