As we grow up, life puts
us through varied experiences – we happen to grow up thinking innocence is not cool. In order to be cool, boundaries had to be stretched and broken, one needs
to hold information well beyond his reach to be able to succeed in life, and
that this approach was rewarded through popularity and possibly success –
always prepared more than your peers. There is this false belief that this lack
of innocence after all is life – living a life of compromise.
But this burden pushes us
to expect a lot from ourselves, and everyone around us – and we shall slip into
living a life of regret, harbouring moments of failures than being happy about what
life benevolently bestows upon us. With time, one shall come to see losing our
innocence as a major regret – a sort of slow, downward spiral; not able to enjoy
the precious little moments in life. In our intertwined set of expectations
from ourselves, somewhere deep down we hold a lot of expectations from others
in our life – for us to fulfil our expectations, we start to hold them against
it. This will only lead to barriers and we give up a lot in this process. We will
lose our most important ability – motivation to try.
It would not be right to
think if it is good to keep this attitude of innocence when going out into the
"real world” – please be convinced that hiding our innocence is much
easier, but not necessarily the right step forward when we start-up and also
remain happy in life. Once we start building the walls to protect ourselves,
our innocence is lost and it would be hard to try again – happily.
It is important we
realize happiness is in our ability to try – and it is a beautiful thing. Give it
a try, be innocent and start-up.
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