Never Give Up by Soma Mukherjee

There are no books on success for everyone as each book or each journey has a different story. The day a baby is born, expectations are dumped on the baby to be beautiful, fair, thin,intelligent and so many other things. Expectations keep on growing . From education, marks, life, marriage and so on. In the rat race of life, you do what is asked by your family and keep on satisfying all till Mr Yamraj comes and asks about your life balance sheet. It’s often said what happens to a child till 5 years remains in their mind till the end and they act accordingly through out. If a child is not loved, picked up, cuddled and if it sees violence frequently, he or she does the same through out their life.

In a lot of seminars, I have seen people having issues with themselves, with their parents or how their boy friend or girl friend treated them. People have not spoken to their parents over years, few have been abused , scarred  and so on. Problem  in India is they don’t seek professional help. We talk about depression when Deepika Padukone speaks about it. Still going for counselling or taking help is a taboo. It’s assumed only people having mental issues should take help ,rest pretend nothing is happening. That’s why we read so many cases of crime, violence etc .

My write up is not to scare everyone but to let people know that all go through strife during their journey of life, many times. Therefore always listen to people you love and care and also be kind to strangers if you feel he or she needs help. In today’s world people record incidents and post it on social media rather than helping anyone. Also, stop having low self esteem issues and stop getting bullied, shamed, abused or disrespected. We are all imperfect and no one needs to be perfect. People in media looking perfect, use artificial or real means of diet, surgery, make up, air brush to look perfect. Look at Sonam Kapoor”s honest confessions. Love yourself and pamper yourself. Know who you are and what you want out of life. Treat failure as a stepping stone to success. Remember Robert Bruce ? Be happy,blessed and have  gratitude towards what you got. Try for what you want to achieve and if you can’t, decide was that your best or look for alternatives.

Life is a box of chocolates so enjoy it well.

Author Bio: Winner of the inner beauty sub-title at the recently held Mrs Karnataka Pageant, mother to a 20 and 18 year old. Soma Mukherjee tells us how she lives life to the fullest.