LET NOISE REMAIN OUTSIDE: A FIGHT FOR THE FRUIT

 

GOAL SETTING

A sharp young man keeping the noise outside / Photo Courtesy / Boom

Initiate A Measure

Your inner world is worth a fight. You just don’t end up with a clean mind. There are enough distractions around, which are competing with each other. They all want access. Distractions are not looking for the whole door to be opened. They just want a little space. Like when you forget yourself and get carried away. That moment you engage with the person distracting you. The one looking for a fight where there is no fight. The moment you start engaging. You are granting distraction permission. There are enough things out here, which are jostling for your attention. So you need not just to be careful but also aware enough to know what constitutes to a distraction. Your mind is special. It is worth a fight. A fight to keep all chaos outside. The mere fact that everything else is messy does not mean everything else within you should also be messy.

The chaos outside is not worth your mind. The noise outside is not worthy it. The many things that an average man talks about every day do not deserve an acreage in your mind. Fight for a clean space. Keep a clean and healthy mind. The many things that hurt you outside do not just remain outside. The pain and hurt go inside your heart and mind. And when you allow them to find a perfect landing in your mind. You are in for a much bigger battle than what happened outside. When things that hurt you outside enter your mind, they create resentment.  And resentment in itself is an obstacle. It prevents you from making progress. Because it creates hatred. And when you begin to hate somethings, it is like creating a little prison around your life. That prison first locks you up. And then, locks up other people.   

When you are in a prison, you are not free. Something is holding you back. Hatred is holding you back. When you resent something. You want to get back at it. Someone is looking to cause the same pain he or she suffered from. The many things that hurt us physically carry the same potential of hurting us psychologically. And that is even a much worse place to get hurt.

It is Not a Boxing Match

And what fruit are we fighting for? / Photo / Jenum

When the mind gets hurt, it never heals quickly. Instead, it develops wounds that never heal. The wounds keep growing every time they are left unattended. The more the wounds grow, the more, your mind begins to get toxic. And that toxicity does not just remain in the mind. When the wounds increase, they begin to spread. And the next stop becomes your heart. That is now terrible. A wounded heart is a bad thing to nurture. Because the wounds do not just remain in the heart. A wounded heart seeks revenge. It aims to wound other people.

So yes, your mind is worth the fight. The fight to keep the noise as far away as, possible. Your inner world is worth a thousand and one fights. The fights in this context are not the physical fights. The word fight here means all the measures that you need to take to keep distractions and rubbish away from your mind. A lot of things happen every day. Those things are not just our jobs or the result we get from our jobs. In the midst of life happening, many other things happen too. In the busyness of life. A lot of people get hurt too. Because they hear things they don’t like. And in the process react with those words, which eventually break them. But here is what you need to know. There are actually many things and people who actually want to break you. Things, which are against you are much more than things, which are for you. This means that if you just put yourself out there. And hear everything. You would end up more broken than you thought.

The things that come against you are meant to deposit some level of destruction in you. So the noise outside is not for your good. The noise outside is for your destruction. The noise does not just mislead but also wounds at the same time. In fact, the noise is after anything good happening in your life right now. If you have a clean mind. The noise is here to corrupt you. To taint everything good within you. There are all kinds of talks taking place outside. The talks are shaping narratives and views at the same time. The talks that move from ordinary conversations to poison are not just aimless conversations. There is an angle at the end of it all. Those talks happen in the public space for a reason. They are loud for a reason. So don’t walk around ignorant listening to everything. The mere fact that the conversation was taking place in the public.

Hard working people fighting for the fruit / Photo Courtesy / Thirdman

Don’t Let the Noise In

And you happened to be in the public at the same time, does not mean you ingest everything. Walk around with guardrails. Prevent some things from entering your mind. Protect yourself against conversations, which look like diseases. Popular culture will never run out of materials. There will always be new things happening each day. In fact, something that will happen the next day will be much sweeter than what happened the previous day. Things will continue to sweeten up every day. There will be plenty of them. All competing for your attention. But don’t let the noise in. Let the noise remain where it is supposed to be. On the surface. Let it rot outside and eventually fall off. Do whatever you can to keep it outside. Don’t allow resentment to mislead your soul. Don’t walk the path of offense. It will lead you in a much worse place.

And when that happens. You will no longer be alone. You would have become a home. A home to something. Anger, bitterness, revenge, hatred, or hopeless arguments. That is what the noise around you does. Corrupt purity. Steal order. Infiltrate innocence.  And contaminate every beautiful thing. Your inner world (mind, heart, soul, and spirit) deserves a break. They ought to remain undefiled so that they can carry out their respective functions effectively. The spirit to lead the soul. And the soul to lead the body.

 

A heart must keep you alive. However, if you overburden it with unnecessary loads. You might end up dead. Keep a clean heart because a rough world deserves a good a neighbor. And you can’t be a good neighbor if you are corrupted. If your heart is poisoned with whatever noise happening outside. It is incapable of laying down its cares to rise to the occasion. But we are in critical points of our lives. The number of people who need a neighbor is raising. So keep the noise outside and answer the call. Don’t throw kindness to the wind. Instead, go to the wind and fight every fruit that you have lost.