Here's a powerful renegade thought --
Make yourself your own best friend so you can totally 100% depend on... YOU!
Yes, it's totally scary and totally... the BEST way to be.
But... why?
Because everyone else around you can be here today... and... gone tomorrow.
So, knowing that and knowing the laws of nature... the fact that there'll be a time where the people you've depended on, expected things from, hitched your umbilical chord too, will... in some way... falter, fall, melt... leaving you to pick up the pieces.
Most hear what the Buddha said - be your own island, be your own source of strength and solitude - but... either through timidity or, through simply loving the intellectual idea of it but fearful of walking the narrow path... do NOT focus on being their own source of strength.
And we've all the educational systems, trainings and processses to help us. In fact, if you look hard enough, you'll find everything is available...FREE!
Information ISN'T lacking.
Fearlesssness... IS.
Because let's face it...
It's easy to not be our own island, our own strength source... it's much easier to live in the comfort of what others have in store for us... because then... when things aren't going too well, there's a person or thing OUTSIDE of us, to blame.
Ah.
How nice.
A comforting cushion we can go lay our heads on and commiserate with ourselves when everything has gone... haywire.
And let's be clear here - being one's own strength and one's own island... doesn't mean you live a life of a recluse on some far away mountain top.
It means you live on your own terms, depending on yourself for your own motivation and strength... and in turn, influence others through your behaviours.
There's a quiet revolutionary power and certainty to that way of being.
Are you up for THAT kind of challenge?
Raja Hireker