Guiding light | Understand the role of value in our lives | All you need to know about - Akhbaar Express
“I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am”
- Charles Horton Coolyey
In this world, most of us are not living our life to the fullest. One reason for this is we are living the life of someone else. We are trying to live up to what we think others think of us even at the expense of our happiness. We are losing ourselves in this overthinking.
How we can know ourselves if we are following someone else's dream.
Clear the dust of ignorance
To understand who we are and what makes us happy, we need to filter out our brain. Filtering out the unwanted noise of external influence helps us to concentrate on recognizing ourselves. If you do this, notice yourself, what you are before and now. Does your past value really reflect you?
Values play a very important role in your life, values are like a guide of life, helps to navigate in life. Our value comes through what we listen, what we see and from the people around us.
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Influence of Media
Impact of social media on our value is very large. People are spending lots of time on this. Also, the movie we watch, music we hear or the people we follow online or offline. Whatever in your news feed is feeding your mind. The more you absorb violent video, porn video, troubling news, celebrity gossip, the more your values are tainted with discontent, jealousy, envy and judgement.
You need to understand that the mind is like a hard drive. Whatever you feed your mind, the mind will react like that. Feed it with good values like determination, gratitude, charity, purity of mind, renunciation.
Audit your life
We need to do self-examination ourselves; you might write spending time with your family as top priority, but you spend your free time with your friend or playing games, your actions are not matching your value and you need to do your self-examination. You need to understand that no matter what you think your values are, your actions tell the actual story.
Time
Your time is very important most of you not agreed but it’s the truth. Everyone's’ time is important, but it depend upon us how much we give importance to the time. “Give respect, take respect” I feel everyone is familiar with this quote, give respect to time, time will respect you. Don’t waste it.
Let's do one thing, take a paper and pen. Make a list of everything you did yesterday. Now check yourself, are you doing the right thing? Will you achieve your goal if you continue this thing?
If your answer is no, then now is the time you can change your thing. Make a certain timetable of your day. Your best version of you is not that you can do anything. Your best version is the most disciplined version of you, who knows the importance of time.
Media
As I said before we are spending lots of time scrolling reel and shorts, liking and commenting on posts. We are wasting time on something which has not zero but negative results on our values. Plus, I am not talking about those who are earning through social media, it's their work.
Social media not only makes us unproductive but also feeds our mind with wrong values. If you want you can check how much you use social media in a day, week and even a month. Technology is for our comfort, we should own it, don’t let it own you.
“We are living in the perception of a perception of ourselves, and
we’ve lost our real selves as a result"
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Source - "Think like a monk" Book by Jay Shetty
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