MINDHUGS WELLNESS

ENTREPRENEUR? YOU SURE?* Throw away all the romantic origin stories you have heard about Great ideas and companies. Research extensively and read lots of accurate biographies. Read articles and lots of different books. You will be delivered from your "pie in the sky" fairytale desires. The kind of hard work, networking, PURE LUCK, privilege, bias unexplained grave and what nots involved will make you born again in your mind. Look, you are probably not going to experience a Eureka moment and come up with the next multi billion dollar company. You will go through thousands of half baked and ridiculous ideas and so many roadblocks to make your head spin and ache. It is going to take sweat, grit, blockheadedness, perseverance, giving up and coming back up, getting depressed and even suicidal, experiencing deep pain and hopelessness, sleeping scared and having nightmares and so many other things most successful people or their close cousins, motivational speakers, won't tell y...

I think apart from ignorance, the other reason most people do not pay attention to Mental Health is because of FEAR. Fear that if we looked closely enough at our selves, we will see the truth. The truth that we are not really doing as well as we want everyone else to think we are. So like the ostrich we try to bury our heads in the sand, hoping that no one sees through our pretentious appearances. So we avoid anything deeper than social media friendship and we put up exciting and animated posts and pictures. We work so hard to project an image of perfection and satiety when we know that it is all an act. A complete and utter lie. We smile fake smiles and use smileys we don't actually mean. We have automatic responses to how we are doing and take lots and lots of pictures of our faces as if to convince ourselves of the lies we keep telling others. The only problem is that, pretending Mental issues don't exist or can't affect us won't change the truth. The truth that, ...

Some people are so scared of living. Oh yes they exist but they don't actually live. Not really. They are not alive. It is no wonder nothing exciting really happens in their lives. They have so many layers of insulation between them and life that by the time, they realize it, their lives are over. When the opportunity to be something better or significantly different knocks, by the time they open the inner door, unlock the bolt chain, open the padlocks of the burglar proof doors, push part the sliding doors and walk across the lawn to the outer doors, the opportunity has moved on to a more welcoming person. Life can be cruel and painful and we get hurt all the time. However we can't let those feelings cripple us and imprison us. We have to build ourselves back up and take life on. The world is your stage. Don't hide behind the curtains. Step out and live. Stop existing. Live! PKT #BookAddict