(What you need to do despite having money, fame and family, if you truly want to be happy)
A lot of us have been bruised in our childhood in ways that come back to haunt us till date.
In the process we might have become perpetually sad, too ambitious, and forgot to enjoy life in the first place.
Here is what I think: Eventually we all will end up making money. Or building a good family life. Or give ourselves the very thing as an adult that we lacked as a kid.
However, if we do not heal the inner kid that was once bruised and grew up too fast to make up for things they did not have a hand in the first place, that inner kid might come up at the most unexpected places.
Such as: Some people deal with people they hire with extreme rudeness, because hey, we are paying you. Some people become entitled because “they endured so much hardship now you cannot give me more hurdles because I have reached here by a lot of hard work, and I don’t deserve more problems.”
It is sad, and almost makes me pity those well intentioned, hard working, really genuine people at heart — to see their unhealed inner child come out at a slightly unexpected moment.
So, my friend, in the process of growing up and growing more, getting rich, surrounding yourself with the right people, please please make sure you forgive everyone who bruised you in the process.
Your parents.
Your ex.
Your old friends.
Your siblings.
Sometimes, your own past self.
When you forgive people (without condoning their doings), you give yourself the permission to be lighter.
Which is when your inner kid comes out.
You are happy, because you just are.
You don’t fret, because sometimes things don’t happen as you want them to be.
You aren’t insecure, because you believe in yourself.
You don’t lose your temper, because you are at peace within.
The journey is filled with pain. You have to let go of everything that led you here.
But you know what’s worse? To live with everything that led you here.
You deserve better, my friend. Your inner kid deserves better.
