How To Romanticize Your Ordinary Life

An African proverb says ‘When death finds you, may it find you alive.’

This quote means nothing to people who are living in autopilot mode and with a mind that is trained to follow the patterns and behavior taught by the world.

Believe it or not, the majority of us aren’t living. We are just there — existing — doing things out of habit, thinking without consciousness while wishing to have something else, being someplace different, and waiting for life to change so that we can enjoy it.

I am no different. Even after being a big of intentional living, I have failed to ‘live intentionally’ and for the past few weeks, I have been living with fear — trying to find escape through social media, Netflix, avoiding important work, and being too much in my mind just so I don’t have to face what’s in front of me.

I am telling you about my failure to ‘live’ so you can understand two things:

1. The Mind Is Trained To Live Unconsciously:

No matter how smart you think you are, the training you and I have received since childhood has caged our minds. I used to think that I would never fall for mental chatter or fear or anything that stops me from living life but here I am.

I am a believer in romanticizing life but I have no idea when I started being in mind — fearing the next moment instead of enjoying the current moment.