Just another cliché motivation article

What are you doing to yourself?

Seriously, it may seem like a stupid question, or one that is blaming you for the things you are making yourself get through and that you don’t deserve at all, but I want you to bear with me in these lines and strip my will from any of those clichés you’re thinking about and answer me this no-brainer of a question. Just tell me, what are you doing to yourself?

What are the things you’re letting yourself live, and the ones you’re not letting? What are your limits? What are the lines that when you reach, you say to yourself « That’s it. You can’t go further. You’ve never went and will never can, so why bother? »
I want you to tell me the things you continiously tell yourself that you can’t do, or that it’s forbidden for you to have no matter how much you’ll try. I want you to list the things you want to achieve, and especially the ones you’ve never had the courage to want to achieve.

You feel like you got no purpose, huh? I bet you keep thinking to yourself « Where are the goals everybody is telling themselves they will reach one day and that I don’t even have a clue about? »
I’m not here to give you answers, but I hope that the only meaningful phrase I’d say can at least give you a perspective, open your eyes a bit.

You are your only barrier.

I know it sounds a cliché, if it isn’t one already, but just think about it a minute with me, will you? Surely you’d say to yourself that it’s bullsh*t.

"Outer circumstances are the barrier, not me!"

"When other unexpected things occure, we'll see what
the barriers truly are!"

Yes, you’re right. But not really… Actually you’re not.
It is true that life gives us lemon too often, and it is true that sometimes we can surpass it, while sometimes it’s just so difficult. But those life problems didnt come to us and tell us we can’t go for something, or at least hope and dream about something so we can reach it.

The problems life gives us are then called obstacles. And those obstacles are made for you to override and with which you’re going to upgrade.

But what is the thing that keeps telling you that you can’t do something? What is the thing that builds a wall in front of your eyes that no matter how much you’ll jump, you’ll never have the ability to outdo? What is the thing that even if you, by some miracle, overtake won’t even give you the perks of leveling up?
I guess you got me well here. Yup, it is your own will. It is the door you’re keeping shut by underestimates, fear or whatever, while you’re crying because you can’t see the sun out.

« You can not find the sun in a closed room. »
                   -Ghassan Kanfani

I won’t tell you more. I know that you know that we have reached that part of the text where it’s time to tell you to go out, to have courage, to open the door, but you already know all that, and that is not my main mission here. Everything that follows is up to you, I don’t bother about you going to change your life or stepping outside your comfort zone. Life isn’t only outside of it after all. But this is what is hoped to be a spark, something to change a certain view. Maybe you already know what I’m telling you. Certainly, I am stating the obvious. But you know how we get a bit dramatic in life. You know how we tend to think that everything is going against our flow and that we are some little miserable poor ones who want to do something but the outer forces are just stronger than us.

I am truly deeply sorry to inform you that the outer forces turned out to be inner ones.

This is a friendly reminder:
You are your own enemy. You are your biggest source of energy. You are your wisest preacher. So stop searching all over the world for something deeply burried inside and have the courage to flick the dust over the master within you.

Take control.