Remember why you started: It’s hard to build | Harder to maintain

 

 

 


Many of us must have heard of this famous quote- “When you feel like quitting- remember why you started.” It’s hard to build but harder to maintain. Why am I writing this today? There is a reason behind it. The reason is this blog coming after a long break on this website, almost about 3 months. The reason is- finding a work-life balance. I got involved in writing and publishing one of my poetry books- self-publishing took a little more time and effort, being it my first time into publishing something.

 

 

 

Remember why you started

 

 

 

I was kind of exhausted because sometimes it gets hard to balance things in life that carry equal importance in your life. You want to do this, you want to do that but then you want to do something else as well in between; in the middle of all this, one day you get so drained that you want to leave one or the other things that you were trying to hold onto for so long. Similar things happened with me carrying further with this website and the other important things that I began.

I started “The Pendulum Of Life” with a reason to help people find a slight light of hope and happiness in their life even after all that has happened in this past 1 and a half years. Our lives have changed completely. The definition of normal has changed and we have found a new normal. This new normal has come with masks, sanitizers, and social distancing. Many of our loved ones have lost their loved ones in this pandemic. Something which we will never be able to change. Someone that we will never be able to bring back. Many familiar faces that we will never be able to see again. And because of this, our lives will never be the same again. 

When I started publishing my work last year, there was a burning desire in my heart to let people read my thoughts. What I feel, what I want to tell them. Although we start with something and we carry on with things till they run smooth. But then they start becoming complicated and you feel like you can’t keep up with the rising hopes. Sometimes it’s ‘us’ who make things complicated. We take so much on our plates that it becomes hard to eat. But it’s not that you can’t multitask. You can very well do that if you learn the art of organizing your plate well. 

 

don't stress

 

 

Right after beginning with this website, I started posting on Instagram (@garimadixit19). Instagram is the platform where I have met so many budding writers and poets and those people have inspired me to the core to write more because when you get like-minded people in your life, it gets easier to develop your thought process in the way you want. I love using that platform as it’s because of it that now I have a collection of poems and quotes. 

But again one thing leads to another. Here is a series of those events beginning from the lockdown itself:

Lockdown→ Work from Home→ Blogger→ Word press→ Youtube → Instagram→ Pinterest → Facebook (though I don’t use it much)→ Poems→ → Job Change → Poem Books→ Work Pressure → Over Occupied→ No blogging→ No book promotion→ No bookselling→ Hopes lost→ No consistency in writing→ No writing for days →→ Disappointed in life

Now the above-mentioned events describe in brief all that has happened in the past 1 year. I was never a social media person but got exposed to it in this one year. When I see myself today, I find myself as a completely different person. 

There is a lot to do in life. And we all must do what we had thought of initially. The only thing is once you put yourself into something else, do not forget the primary thing that you started with. The purpose behind starting it. My purpose was to spread hope and positivity. And all of a sudden, I started losing my purpose because my mind started becoming over-occupied. It’s my hopes that started becoming a burden on my mind. Slowly there started a manifestation of my mind with undesirable thoughts. It’s me asking myself- What is my purpose in life? What am I doing? Who am I helping? What exactly do I want in life? How much successful am I? Suddenly all these questions took too much space in my life that the other reasons to live started becoming smaller. 

We question ourselves too much sometimes that in the process we forget our worth. Forgetting our worth is the worst of all the mistakes that we commit. Why aren’t we satisfied ever? Why aren’t we happy with what we are doing? Why our life suddenly starts feeling so small that it’s hard to survive? Why…Why??

 

 

remember why you started

 

 

Meet you in the next blog (Part II) with the answers to these whys. Stay tuned till then.

Till then just ponder over the very first line of this article- “When you feel like quitting- remember why you started.”

 

 

dont quit

 

 

Author

Garima Dixit 

 


 

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