Every Level Of Your Life Demands A Different You

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkest fears that most frightens us.”

We ask ourselves, who is to be brilliant, gorgeous, cute, talented, fabulous and right every time? Actually, who are you not to be? Every next level in our lives will demand a different us.

Last year I worked a lot on the idea of whether true love really exists, whether it is not just a fantasy or also more like an apparition, a ghost. Like if you think you have seen a ghost, then you believe in ghosts; if you have not, chances are you do not believe in ghosts. Love is like that: if you have been in love, then you know love exists, but if you have been so crushed by love and then decided to destroy it, not to be hurt by it anymore, it is very hard to bring it back to life. We are guarded all the time. Then we start to think; does love really exists or do we just make it up and imagine that it does?

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we do not even recognise that growth is happening. We may feel hostile, angry, weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant.

Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. However, what is most unpleasant is to not know what is happening. Those long periods, when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods to wait for. For it is in those periods that we realise that we are being prepared for the next phase of our lives and that, in all probability, a new level of personality is about to be revealed.

Playing small does not serve the world. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Do not ever wait for another person to make your life better, which is your job. Nobody will save you; but you can, if you willing to take the steps.

Jason P Ashipembe is a student at International University of Management, Walvis Bay.

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