In today’s world of showoff and fakeness it’s very difficult to be, what you are. The first step towards being yourself is, treat yourself nicely. Take good care of your health first, then think of others as its said ‘you can’t pour from empty cup’.

Our lifestyle is such that we are running towards achieving some targets or goals all the time, for example a sales manager is worried to achieve sales targets, a fat person’s goal may be to reduce weight and so on. In this fast life of ours we must slow down a little bit and try to live a simple life. A simple life not only make us calm and composed but also bring the feeling of satisfaction.

Sometimes we do certain things to please others, we fake smile, we become extra nice, we showoff how rich we are, we wear expensive stuff to impress others. But we forget, by doing such acts, we might get the attention of others, but in the process we loose ourselves totally.

We in this world of technology, are more active on social media than in real life. The creativity which was present in each one of us has taken a back stage. We get all the help from Google. Earlier we use to learn from each other but now if you want to learn anything, you have tutorials available on youtube, and that too free of cost. Now, when someone travel, will post on social media platform, if someone visited a restaurant, will post a pic of what they are eating. The way we use to talk to each other have changed drastically.

The more we have become dependent on technology, the more we are loosing ourselves. We don’t find time to do any creative activity or our mind has become so dull that we can’t think of anything creative. In this case I am lucky, I was planning to do something creative for so long but couldn’t understand what to do. And one lucky day I entered into the vast world of blogging. I will share honest experience with you that from the day I started blogging, I have seen change in myself. Earlier I spent almost whole day on social media seeing this video, sharing that post. It was so unproductive and waste of time. Now my mind have become creative and I feel so happy when I publish new blog of mine. I feel that, yes, this is my creation. I have not copy it from anywhere.

‘SPEAK LESS THAN YOU KNOW, HAVE MORE THAN YOU SHOW’. Our thirst for knowledge should be such that, we must focus to first learn ourselves and then only advice others. Copying others is waste of time, you will only try to copy others, but where are your creativity if you copy others. Some people think that if my friend have choosen such a course or doing a particular business, I will also do the same. This shows how dull your mind have become that you can’t even choose what your potential is, what you are capable of. You haven’t think of things which may be your friend might not be good at but you are. Think out of the box. To be yourself , you have to spend time with yourself. Then only you can decide, what are the things that makes you happy. Your lifestyle allows you how much time to devote on yourself. When you stop those stupid act of forwarding received post, as it is, and think to create something of your own. When you wear dresses according to your choice, when you visit places you want to visit, when you eat what you like, when you are free to be happy or sad. This mindset when you achive will take you to the steps further, to be yourself.

We all are unique, everyone has a quality or the other, we just have to recognise it and ask a question to ourselves that ‘What is unique in me, that makes me different from others’? The answer to this question will be different in each case. But this will make you the person, you actually are. So, BE YOURSELF.

Ramneet Kaur