Stuck in a Limbo, Your Life or Your Mind?

I think we all have come to a point in life where we just don't know what to do. Humans are complex beings. Our desires and wishes are complex. I think this is what sets us apart from other living creatures. We don't settle for less, as it should be, but we also don't settle for something that used to be our goal, but is not now anymore.

Everyone wants different things from their lives. But I think we can all relate to the fact that if we finally accomplish what we had wanted, it suddenly isn't everything we desired. Hence, we set our goals to something more far and then work for it..

If we don't strive for something, our life will be meaningless. So we keep setting goals for ourselves.

One of the biggest challenges that we face in our life is when we feel that we are stuck, but not because of the lack of opportunities or you not being able to achieve your goals. The problem comes despite having everything where your personal and professional life is well settled and everything seems to be going as it should be. After a while, life starts feeling repetitive. Rinse, repeat. Rinse, repeat. And you start feeling like you aren't moving forward in your life even though things are just peachy. The real frustration comes when you can't even figure out why you feel like this, despite everything being perfect. Our life is moving forward, but our minds seem to get stuck.

What to do when we start feeling this way? Wouldn't life be just easier if we knew what to do when we start feeling "that" way? It seems like we always have more questions than the answers. That's one of the main reasons that we keep moving forward, in search of answers that we never seem to find. We are a curious being by nature, but isn't it funny that we are able to satisfy our curiosity about the damn Universe, but just can't do the same with our own selves and minds. It just serves to push home the idea that, we, as human beings are more complex than any other creation of the whole universe, including the Universe itself.

Now back to the issue at hand. What can we really do when we start feeling like we are stuck in a limbo? Our life seems to be moving forward, but our mind is not. I really think that this state of mind can drive a person crazy. Talking from a personal experience. And of course, we won't discount the fact that every other person is different. Every human being has different finger prints, what of their minds now.

Now, what I learned from my personal experience when I was going through the phase is that I just needed to stop for a while. I know, easier said than done. But I had to. Not because I didn't love my life anymore, but because I needed the reason to revitalize that love again. I realized along the way that when you become used to something, you start taking it for granted. I was grateful of the life I had. I didn't want to start resenting it because I had worked very hard to achieve what I had. But us, human beings, we need change. Always have, always will. Like I had said earlier in the beginning, We just aren't capable of stopping. But sometimes, we really need a break. A break that we need for ourselves. Life is hectic, specially if you are working. Even if you aren't working on a regular basis, it still becomes a bit tiresome. Routine, can be a angel in disguise. and a demon also. Depends on who you ask. You want to ask a person like me, who is afraid of changes because they are always risky and uncertain, I would say that I love being in a routine work. Ask someone who likes to live on edge, they will make a cry of despair. But even myself, who prefers being in a routine, always knowing when and how things are supposed to be done, can become weary of my life sometimes. I realized it much later though, that it wasn't my life which was making me feel like I am stuck, It was myself. I needed a break from my life, not because I was tired of it, but because I wanted sometime for myself. I needed a break for myself. I took a leave from my work, did some travelling, did some writing, And then thought what if this was actually my life through out, if I could just travel, just read and write, and believe me, I was having fun while doing all those things, but I didn't even consider that idea. Because I really loved my life. Just to imagine what will happen if I didn't have that anymore made me realize the importance of what I had. I had taken time out for myself. It also made me appreciate my life a bit more ( not that I didn't appreciate it before ), but still, getting reminder of that wasn't bad. I know I will start feeling like that again sometime again, but I also know that it's a part of me. Of every human being. It's in our nature. The point is not to let it drag us down, It's a very painful process. To go through a feeling of despair where you can't seem to figure out what it is that is actually wrong despite everything being fine in your life. Sometimes all it requires is to reflect internally. We often don't get the time to do that. Too busy in our lives to actually study ourselves, learn ourselves.

Life can be a handful sometimes, ups and downs will forever be a part of our lives including the extreme emotions on the opposite ends. The best thing we could do is to learn to tread through the Tsunami which is our life.