QUO VADIS?

The captain has turned on the seat belt sign and we will soon be departing from the Familiar to the Unknown.

Wow! How does it feel when you are sitting in the aisle of life and your soul is the captain?? A lack of control from the fear of unknown flying over the ocean of doubt... Isn't this what most of us deal with? And if you do not know what I am talking about, then you need soul searching..

Going through soul altering changes is like a journey.

~ Pack your bags ( As in, prioritize your emotions, morals, judgement, alertness, and beliefs)

~Drive to the airport ( As in, taking a NERVE wrecking trip to your heart)

~Go through security ( As in, sort out through your failures, disappointments, heartaches, instability)

~Look for your departure gate ( As in, looking for the sorted out thoughts to now cross over to your

                                                    soul)

~Board the plane ( As in, you are now seated in the flight of challenges with the rest of the people 

                               and finding the balance to make it to your destination)

Life sometimes, is exactly that! We sit in this winged vehicle made comfortable for us, flight attendants serving us, entertainment to keep us distracted, seat belt signs going on and off like an intention radar to keep people as law abiding citizens and the captains voice a delight to soothe our doubts, and the window seat explorations are soul healing, but on the contrary how easily we forget how much work and dedication it must have taken to take off from one destination to another. Our mind and soul work the same way. The subtle changes you make within yourself makes it a pretty comfortable soul changing ride. Now what if the same winged vehicle goes into emergency mode, What do you do? 

Life has a lot of emergency modes like that, and people who are well equipped with the situation will most of the time, survive. A journey from your mind to your soul, is not an easy one, it will take a lot of ups and downs to bring the perfect equilibrium. Every intention, thought becomes crucial. Every taboo, judgements, morals you have been brought up on, becomes a defendant. It basically comes down to chasing yourself, rectifying your ideologies, getting off the dogma and most of all asking questions to those who do not like to answer, not as a self gratifying act but the means to learn and understand. As humans we all the have same feelings, we all feel elation, sadness, confusion, bitterness, anger, exhilaration but we never realize what's hidden behind it, and the sooner we sort out these little annoying air pockets of life, the faster we start shaping out worldview and life becomes a window seat exploration. I very truly and honestly believe when you have the intention to get on a journey and your slowly work on it, you will have a very smooth landing. The best lessons in life are people. You will be faced with situations you want to run away from, depend yourself on someone else, someone who appeared out of nowhere and challenged every being out of you, they might tap the wrong side of your shoulder to get your attention but in the midst of this, get off the seat, stop being fussy, own up to your mistakes and rectify them, have the confidence to stand up, and filter out people who are taking an extra seat, never feel threatened by people who are opinionated, challenge yourself, be happy with what you have and make the best of it and most of all we are all on a separate itinerary of life, so never compare. Once the fortitude and discipline is put into place, everything that is happening around you will transform into a different vision. Intentional things will now look like, passing turbulence's, annoying passengers ( as in, people) will teach you to stay focused with your patience. Basically you will have to re-frame your whole understanding process of the world you live in, and what roles you are going to have to play, it will all tune itself to the chord. Every journey is a collection of memories and experiences, given to us by our surroundings and by those who surround us. We may not have any companion in this soul searching journey but in truth we are never alone, we as humans sustain ourselves on another. True destination will never be non-stop, you will have to get off several times, change planes, wait for the departure, deal with delays but eventually we all get there. And that is where your true soul lives.

"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via"

"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars"