Monday, September 16, 2013

I am no more the person I used to be

I started drafting this post a year back. My blog might sound a bit dramatic, but most of the times I was told that life does go through phases of good and bad, and then good again. It's a series of ups and downs. In a graph, life can at best be plotted as a wave pattern, never as a straight line.
I remember one of my neighbor saying don't laugh so loud you will attract bad luck. She actually believed it, and, if a few minutes later she caught any of us crying, she would come the smug remark, didn't I tell you whenever you laugh out loud, you will certainly be crying soon enough.
I am no more the person I used to be.  Everything went as per plan. I have got world’s best mother in law, a loving caring husband. a relaxed jo. But I can’t find out the reason why for some time now I have been feeling more and more negative about myself.
I have mood-swings very often and very strong emotions lately. I feel as if I have become very sensitive as if I was never before. I easily get upset- I may cry at the smallest things. I would take every word to heart. I feel pretty low most of the time these days. More often I sleep more during the day than at night. My family had been pointing me that I do not smile often. Over the past few months I have been feeling extremely bad about myself without any reason. I get a strong feeling that I am in the grip of forces beyond my control. I am scared of tiny things. I find it difficult to keep a conversation going. I sort of forget what the other person is saying and sometimes also my own thoughts. I find it difficult to keep a conversation going. I want to be the same old me. Friends had to stop me off laughing, I use to talk nonstop. I was never scared of anything. I do not remember crying on some really big situations where I must have cried. I was writing this on my 25th birthday when friends were calling me with all the best wishes and I was waiting for that one call from someone special.
It's the silly me side which made me write, I feel the mantra to live happy is not just living for yourself its living for the people around you for your family. I figured when I was happy I was actually living for others, I had my parents, family or friends in mind. But time changed and I had set up many expectations for myself, being stupid I was expecting surprises, special treatment for myself and when things were not coming as I wanted them to be it was getting taxing for me. And finally I released as I had expectations from others I was disappointed. Now I find my life a lot easier as I

Keep my expectations to the lowest.

I recall when I bought my phone — received a black box with the phone inside. Wow, I thought, that was incredible. At least that’s what I thought for about one month until I saw another new phone coming and my expectations killed the happiness. Today after almost 2 years still using the same black phone but when I broke the phone last month I wasn't at all excited to buy a new one. Because I don't have expectations any more. I learned to be happy in present state rather keeping my dreams so big (not in all context, I still would like to get a promotion) ;).