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Confidence


What is it that allows one to walk through the road less traveled? In this competitive reality there are advisers who condemn people from rising above and deviating from the common path. Is it sufficient to do what everyone is doing or does one stride away to create a new path?

I traveled alongside a bunch of people I hardly knew. At the end we were tired, beaten and famished. The only emotional attachment I was having was towards a bed. After two days of adventure I was ready to mellow down.

It is sometimes funny how the answer to the finest questions are in the most unexciting and insipid location. I was looking for confidence, do not know why I was looking for it in the middle of nowhere, but I felt I would find it. We walked 21kms, flew with the clouds, bathed in the chill waters of the stream and found nothing.

I wonder what it is about colors that gets us going. Take a few colors and play around to immediately feel euphoric. Red, green, yellow together paint a wild picture in even the dullest minds. Here I am surrounded by all the beautiful colors of nature and I see something very normal as a character trait in a companion. Blown away finding what I was looking for I walk ahead to deeper waters to take in that beautiful surrounding. The answer I was looking for was freedom. Freedom to break the shackles coming from the chapters and lessons we learn every day. All the learning from this world becomes useless if there is no freedom to think. It is our thinking that differentiates one another. Just like there are a million colors in this world every human being is different in the way one thinks. It is the one thing that cannot be copied. All our experiences from the day we are born carve the way we think. It is the one patent you will never loose. Our mindset is dynamic; it always updates itself hence every moment makes a difference.

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