How things changed for me

It’s been a while since my last post, and it has really surprised me how things have changed within few months.

Imagine being all day long engaged in your thoughts and don’t really understand how to get rid of them in the first place.

Well in the recent research about the famous angel investor Naval Ravikant (from various podcasts, interviews and blogs), I understood the art of doing literally nothing, happiness being a choice we can work on, meditation being the passage for peace in your mind and wealth creation.

According to Naval we all are facing the modern struggle, a struggle against unhealthy food (processed), insomnia, porn addiction and social media. Where every tech giant is regulating your sleep, happiness, envy, comparison and various other emotions; all this while we are alone in this battle far away from our communities.

I would specially like to highlight the concept of happiness being a choice as quoted by Naval. For a long time for past few month, I’ve tried a lot of ways to understand happiness and what can I do about it.

Happiness have different meaning for different people , happiness comes from solving life problems(not ignoring them) as explained by Mark Mason in ‘the subtle art of not giving f*ck’, happiness can be the state of being satisfied with your life and not running in the treadmill of goals, different definitions of happiness have their own critics and drawbacks but the definition which actually makes much of the sense in todays world is happiness is a state where you no longer something missing in your life, when there is no emptiness within.

Now try imagining a state when you don’t have a cloud of endless thoughts inside your head thinking about all the material things you don’t have and them being the sole reason why you cannot live and grow peacefully in the society.

Your mind will automatically shut down when you aren’t anxious about things, and you can more often be in present to focus and embrace your current self.

Also, in the past few months I’ve learnt to let go of things bothering me unnecessarily and also cut the string attaching me to the fear about tomorrow’s problem.

Most of these things are actually playing in my mind and that’s why it’s the most difficult thing to take a hold on. Life is more than past regrets and future dilemmas, we just need to calm down and think from a different perspective.

Another amazing thing which I discovered was the no more need to ask ‘whether I’m happy or not ‘ .previously there were times when this question use to arise in middle of nowhere “why I’m not happy?” and then another loop of thoughts were activated searching about its answers , this process always ended up making me more sad than ever and really spoiled my mood .

It was later when I realised the true meaning of happiness was in never having this question in the first place and getting out of this negative habit (I no longer have now).