When you finally wake up

When you finally wake up, you see meaningful signs everywhere. When you finally wake up, you no longer truly want to carry out the same activities. When you wake up, you want to make sure that everything you do and all your thoughts are in alignment with your newly identified purpose. When you finally wake up, you realise that others too are waking up and seeing your potential. When you wake up, you want to treat yourself because you know from the bottom of your heart that you deserve it. When you wake up, you recognise opportunity and you want to embrace it. When you wake up, you are open to failure and want to learn from it. When you wake up, you understand that you were in slumber for the reason that you could truly appreciate waking up. When you wake up, you understand that doing things for yourself not only empowers and benefits you but it allows others to get a peak into what you have to offer. When you wake up, you recognise the magnificence of time as you can feel so brand new in a matter of seconds. When you wake up, you understand that the only person who truly prevented you from waking up was indeed you. When you wake up, you understand the truth behind the saying that there is always light at the end of the tunnel.

When you wake up, the world wakes up with you. When you wake up, you try to reconcile your feelings of empowerment with all the experiences and thoughts you had before waking up because you know that your history will always have a lot to teach you. When you wake up, you not only embrace each moment like never before as you try to compare how each moment feels in this state to how each moment felt when you were in slumber. Finally, as you wake up, you are prone to be more grateful to all those that came into your life and all those experiences that shaped you for they propelled you to where you are now.

Hey, if I knew what I knew back then…

How I wish that I could go back in time to strike up a conversation with you. How I wish I had enough sense to realize that this was not going to last. How I wish I just looked into the future a little bit more so that I could see the bigger picture. How I wish I had noticed that it was never ever the words but the overall impression. How I wish I had realized that it is the moments spent, not the gifts showered, not the laughter but those times when you are being heart-wrenchingly truthful with the person you are talking to.

It is not the smiles that you make when you are thinking about something by yourself but it is the smiles that other people give you in return for making their day that much fun. It is in the knowing that you have made a difference, not in the knowing that you have made a friend. It is in the casting of the net that progress can be made, not in the counting of the fish. It is when you dive in without expectations, it is when you jump the gun that experience can be gained. Life is right there, with every breath you take, with every step you make, you learn that every moment is a blessing. You learn that sharing your darkest secrets, you learn that laughing out loud, admiring someone from afar and much more makes life worth living.

Whoever said that life is tough didn’t know that it is in growing, we learn and it is in sharing, we experience. Regrets are a part of life and  I believe that with regrets, you truly realize what you are looking for. For without looking at that sadness, you will never really know what drives you. Yes, life is transient but nobody ever said that dreams are transient, instead, they evolve just like you grow. They take into account your regrets and in the end you come up with a dream that is just so much more special and that you think about in those darkest moments knowing that you now know what you truly want.