From an infant to an adult, love, joy and happiness is all one knows, is all one desires and all that attracts him. They drive the choices and decisions one makes in their lives. But as life progresses, love and happiness often become a faint light at a distance, living only in memory.
When expectations go unmet and desires remain unfulfilled, self-image seems less worthy, life takes a different route. Daily living becomes a tangled web of conflicting thoughts where problems don’t seem to leave the grip of the mind. Blaming ourselves, someone or something is all one is left with.
Throughout ones lives, vast majority share similar internal struggles, where inner demons dominate their thoughts and dreams are fraught with unrest.
To full fill this void of emptiness and unfulfillment in their lives, each embark on a path with a common thread, only the details may differ. The directed path chosen is shaped by the identities one carries, parental influences, societal concepts, ingrained beliefs or simply the myriad voices that surround their environment —whether social or digital! These influences are inescapable, at least for the vast sleeping ones.
All have problems in their lives. Anyone who claims otherwise, has lived an unexamined life or managed to suppress them.
The journey one undertakes to be free of them is driven by hope and fear. Hope for change and fear of being lonely. Hope and fear make a man act in way which hope and fear do.
Journey of hope and fear to overcome our inner conflicts begins…(continued in Part 2).
