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I Woke Up at 5 AM for Doing NOTHING; WHY I Did So & How It Helped Me

Renuka Gavrani
6 min readOct 18, 2022

We are always busy. One task after another. One email after another. One video after another. One thought after another. The cycle never ends. We never take a pause to reflect on who we are becoming, what we are losing, what we are thinking, or what is our thought process.

The problem is our world is getting smaller. And we are so connected to the outside world that the inner connection is lost and considered irrelevant. As a result, we end up following, doing, thinking, and becoming what the outside world suggests to us.

I am one of those people who never knew how to take my decisions independently. If you present two options before me, I will keep thinking about which one to choose until my last breath. Since childhood, I always needed others’ opinions about what’s good for me, what I should do in my life, what I should wear, and things like that. Or maybe I was always told what to do that I never realized God has luckily blessed me with a brain as well that I can use to analyze ‘what’s good for me’

I was so dependent on others that when I was in college, I used to wish for someone to tell me ‘what’s my passion.’ In fact, I have searched on YouTube as well ‘how to find your passion

But in the past 2 years, I have transformed. I have discovered my passion and I have gone through so many challenges alone that my younger version feels proud of me.

What I realized in these 2 years is that ‘I was always enough to do things on my own, take decisions independently, and think critically without needing suggestions or opinions from friends, family, or YouTubers’

The problem, however, is since we are so open to information, we are losing our mental capabilities to be ourselves. Every time something goes wrong in our life, we open the internet to look for solutions. I want to question,

when did you become so powerless?

And the problem doesn’t end here. Looking for solutions is not as bad as not knowing what’s wrong with you yet feeling something is wrong with you. You feel a void in you, you feel incomplete, and you feel frustrated at times because SOCIAL MEDIA and the outside world have made you believe that YOU NEED

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Renuka Gavrani
Renuka Gavrani

Written by Renuka Gavrani

I talk about slow & Intentional living - taking you closer to a happy life. I am a published author of the book 'The Art of Being Alone': https://a.co/d/531JIFq

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