The Start of Something New!

There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.

—Brian Tracy.

To me, the start of something new is like standing between the devil and the deep sea.
Now I know that phrase typically means choosing between two equally undesirable or difficult choices (yep, Googled it for confirmation). But coming to think of it, would ‘deep sea’ mean something ‘difficult’ or ‘undesirable’ for everyone? If that was true, underwater diving wouldn’t be as popular as they are. In fact, beaches wouldn’t even be such a popular tourist destination in that case! Basically, sab aapke perception ka khel hai boss!

What I mean by ‘deep sea’ when I use that phrase is more positive. So when I am  thinking of beginning something new, it feels like I am looking at this lovely deep blue sea- a sea of opportunities, expectations, excitement. Like the positive illusions that grip new lovers, every idea that I come up with during that time seems like a potential masterpiece! And so with a bright smile on my face and with a bag full of optimism, I finally start working on something new, and BAM! there’s the devil standing there bringing all my insecurities and apprehensions to life, enough to make me question this whole venture!  More often than not, the devil wins. That’s what has resulted in the long list of ‘things I wish to try but couldn’t’ and the first thing on that list would be writing!

Then there are times when I ask myself, for how long do you let the Devil keep winning? How many times do you let the Devil get the best of you? How many things are going to be added to that ‘dreaded list’? Kab tak? Aakhir kab tak?

And I believe that any attempts to move out of one’s comfort zone take place during such times.

There’s an interesting change method we’ve recently been taught in class- the force field analysis. So Mr. Kurt Lewin, who introduced this method to the world and eventually to our syllabus, says that (Jargon alert!) for any change to be successful, the forces driving toward change need to outdo the forces that hinder progress toward change. 

Relating this to the current topic, I mean that for any one to be able to step out of the comfort zone, one needs to really just throw the Devil in the deep sea! (Whatever that means) See it’s these kind of sentences that I come up with that make me question my writing skills! But no longer.This world we live in is an incredible place. There’s so much to ridicule, to criticize, but there’s so much more to appreciate, to simply share with others! Considering all this, should your writing skills or English really hold you back from expressing yourself?

So here I am, writing ‘mera pehla pehla blog’! The Devil is still there, with the insecurities and apprehensions (yep, turned out to be too heavy to pick up and throw in the sea so mission aborted), but I chose to turn back, look at the sea and enjoy the view, because that’s where all the action happens. After all,

Boldness has genius, magic and power in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe