With all the events that are going on in our lives, we tend to forget the things that matter. Once in a while, we need to slow down and make good use of our precious time to think about certain things over and evaluate ourselves--- Is this worth it? Am I happy?
We are afraid to take risks and embrace change because we are worried about what other people might say. I read somewhere that being ourselves is life's greatest challenge because we live in a world where everything is being dictated to us. In a way, we're too scared of making mistakes for we are too busy giving people a good impression. As much as possible, we don't include the word "failure" in our vocabulary. The pressure is on and all we wanted is "perfection". That perfection is equivalent to happiness.
We've heard this cliche so many times before but we have to remind ourselves that nobody is perfect... that sometimes it is okay to make mistakes because making mistakes make us learn. Striving to be perfect is definitely not the key to happiness because in reality it only makes us feel more insecure, miserable, and emotional. That's why we have to learn to let go of the things that hinder us from attaining the happiness that we deserve.
Let go of pretensions. Let go of insecurity. Let go of trying to please/impress other people. Let go of close-mindedness. Let go of fears.
Yes, letting go is not easy to do but if we never try, we'll never know.
