Surprisingly today, I saw a beautiful red Rose picked his head out of bushes in a hardest ever place for a plant to grow. I do not even remember if I had planted any rose seeds in my front yard little garden. However, recently I have challenged myself that I am going to spend some time on my little garden making sure it is always clean, trimmed, watered and the soil is rich. I challenged myself to keep the things I have already had in place, but I was gifted as a surprise with this beautiful red rose which could have been there under the soil for many years but due to my negligence of nourishing the soil, watering the plants and basically ignoring the garden it never had a chance to blossom.
As I grow older, I have realized that nothing is more precious than the time and energy that you willingly would give to something or someone if you wish for them to blossom as a beautiful flower in your life. And the most important of all is your inner child who needs to blossom as a beautiful flower within you. I have noticed that majority of us due to many factors such as family’s expectations, social requirements and even our small association with our close circle of friends and community, we are all somehow bounded to get stuck to where we are and forget the real person who we are with all the great potentials and strengths we have in within, and we try to please everyone and their expectations and basically neglecting ourselves and our needs.
Sometimes even we are stepping further insisting in our negligence that we expect if we fix something external, our internal world will change for better. That is why many people who suffer from being overweight would go through intense exercise schedules and keep up with it only for a short period of time and do not get the results they wished for and easily give up. On the other hand, many of us choose the shortcut and we accept the pain and spend thousands of dollars to do the cosmetic surgery to change what we can alter and still not satisfied. Some of us choose the distractions instead and rely on drugs, drinking, parting overnights so we may tolerate the discomfort for a little longer. However, the reality is that all these quests for seeking happiness in surface in an external world, is acting just as you are taking a painkiller for your pain which treats the symptoms for a while, but it never cures the illness or treat the actual dilemma.
Spending more time and energy on yourself does not mean to be boring. I am a fan of partying, socializing, travelling, and experiencing new adventures in life; however, you must be aware of many distractions in life which are just a temporary relief or a break from a reality that you have to encounter eventually. A reality that something within you needs true attention. Your inner child is neglected and needs to be acknowledged. It is giving you a hint that you are the one and only one who must meet your unmet needs. You must dedicate more time and energy to yourself and your inner child so you could clear your mind from all negative self-talks, to trim all your thoughts from toxic cycle of patterns such as procrastinations, self-sabotages, and self-doubts to feed your brain with positivity and new ideas to explore, to nourish your body with healthy food, water, and regular exercises so you could love and appreciate yourself for who you are and discover the surprises within you which could be offered to this world as a beautiful rose in my garden.