Date: March 5, 2022 (Saturday)

How do you live your life? Do you live the life of your dreams? or Is your life driven by the opinions of others?

Our society seems to have a timeline. A timeline that's worth following. If one will not be able to follow the same path, for sure it will affect their views towards you. There will be a lot of opinions being thrown at you. It seems like they wanted you to live the life based from their vision of being successful.

Not to mention, we can't deny the fact that we are affected by the opinions of others towards us. We are greatly affected on how they view us as an individual. Even though they are not the ones who are feeding us, still they can affect our choices in some way. We wanted to prove that we are successful through following the journey of what the society has built. We are trying to reach their expectations towards us even if it's not something that satisfies us in the first place. Needless to say, it's true and it's innate to us to be people pleaser, although we unconciously do it sometimes.

Moreover, we can't deny the fact that sometimes because of the influence of others in the path we're in, it seems like we are living someone else's life. It seems like we are living a life driven by others. That's why in the end, we feel unhappy. It seems like something's missing or a part of us has a missing puzzle we are constantly looking on the journey we are walking.

Now, try to reflect on the path that you are walking. Is that the life of your dreams? Is that the path that you wanted to walk with? Is it the path towards the summit that you've been longing for in your heart?

Fret not if you feel like it's not the path that you wanted to walk with, and it's greatly influenced by the decision of others. In order to regain the passion you have towards your life and towards your dreams, you have to understand that you must recover the ownership of your choices. The choices you have that are not influenced by anyone. The choices you have with no stains of expectations from other people.

Always grateful to be surrounded with generous and supportive people in my life. To those who are not part of the S-block, you are all appreciated and loved as well.

Be Brave Enough to Live the Life of Your Dreams

You have your vision and purpose towards your life. Be brave enough to live it, to embrace it, and to walk the path towards it instead of indulging to the expectations and opinions of others. Just so you know, we are influenced by a lot of people, it seems like we are aiming at multiple targets with multiple of hopes towards us. By trying to please them, we end up pleasing no one, including ourselves. We end up feeling hopeless in the life that we have, and worst, we will then start looking at the cup of others and the achievements that they're pouring in their cup. It will make us feel worthless in a way that we feel inferior on the path that we're taking as we are blinded by the achievements of others and the achievement of other people.

Not to mention, we should not allow ourselves to feel this way. We should not allow ourselves to feel like we are not enough or we are worthless just because we have not reached the expectations of anyone. Let's be brave to help ourselves to reach our dreams in life, instead of pushing it down. Be gentle to yourself all the time.

Do What Makes You Feel Alive

If your goal is to reach the expectations of others, you will not be able to live a life happily. It seems like you are in chain while walking your journey. It seems like your goal is not to make yourself happy, instead you're constantly thinking on how others foresee you.

You have to bear in mind that it's your life, not theirs. You have your own decisions in life. You have to do what makes you feel alive. You have to do what matters to you and not theirs. You have to make yourself the happiest and not others. Because at the end of the end, all you have is yourself.

Fall in Love With Your Life Anew

Life is short to be influenced by people's opinions of you. You have to embrace you, you have to fall in love with your life first, you have to embrace what you have and support yoirself towards the goals you have for yourself. You have to be your number cheerer. You have to love yourself. And you have to do things for the betterment of yourself and not for others; stop pleasing, stop judging.

Not to mention, the first thing you have to do is control what people thinks of you. You have to control yourself not to be influenced by them in the first place. It may be hard at first, but with constant practice, you will be able to attain it. Learning to live your own reality is indeed not the easiest, but once you reach it, you will definitely live a peaceful and calm life away from the toxicity of the opinions and expectations of others towards us.

Closing Thoughts

There is more to life than pleasing the people around you. There is more to life than following the path that the society has built for us. Your have your own choices, you have your own dreams. You are the captain of your life, live it and decide who you are for yourself. One day, you will be the happiest for choosing the life of your dreams.