Painful Doubts Are Actually Wisdom

There’s a famous line which goes something like this:

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I have no idea how universe functions on these things, but, what I discovered once was:

When I want something, my mind conspires in helping me to *not* achieve it.

Take for example when I woke up early one morning and said to myself that I wanted to live and die as a writer. Full Stop.

It was okay for a couple of hours, but after that…my mind began its functions:

‘Writers are dead.’

‘There’s no point being a writer.’

‘You’re not living in the 20th century! Now, we have videos. Nobody writes.’

‘Only the people who can’t be billionaires become writers.’

These are just a few specimens. Not that I was scared from all this, the intensity was such that I was in fact, traumatized. Still am. I no longer want to be a writer. Which obviously means, my mind keeps showing me the benefits of being one:

‘Writers are alive.’

‘Life is all about being a writer.’

‘You’re not living in the 20th century! This is the best time for writers. Look at the platforms!’

‘Only the people who can’t write become billionaires.’

I Wanna call these things PAINFUL DOUBTS!

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