Hello friends,

I have been asked to write something "Motivational". I have usually written impromptu and without ever being ready for the subject.

Till now I have only written when words have come to me. I try to do the same today but I know the topic beforehand.

I felt the need to write this here and now.

I am not a professional writer but this is what I always do. Whenever I feel there is a need for interaction and with no one in particular,

I express it in words.

It might sound a little strange to you but writing to me is black and white. There is no "GREY" in writing.

It gives me more clarity on my approach and views on a particular subject and hence makes me better.

I won't say that I would change anything with my words but I surely intend to put my perspective of things in words today.

We all have something within us that drives us throughout our lives, Something that keeps us in all the ups and downs of life.

Something that we are never sure of and something that is possibly not the same thing all the time. This is Motivation and you always have it in you.

Another thing that I know about "MOTIVATION" is people only want to take it from successful people.

Success has a lot of defined parameters for each one of us and not many would define me as successful for what I am today.

But regardless I am going to write. For me, it is more important. I don't want to say much, Just share a few things with you amazing people.

There is a reason why we are all different. The differences that we have, help us in a lot of ways.

I think one of the things that's different for all of us is "How we see the world?". Your lenses surely see it differently than my lenses.

I firmly believe that we should see and analyze things from as many lenses as possible.

We are never aware of what our lens is missing. Probably seeing it from your lens may just make things very clear for me or vice versa.

I want to tell you a few things that I have seen with my lenses. A few observations that I feel are worth sharing.

Have you ever observed an egg closely?

Yes, an egg. ( Egg and motivation, Great deal.)

I want to tell you there is a specialty with eggs. It is completely closed. There is no way in or out.

The creature inside this egg waits for the perfect time and when it is perfect it just breaks the shell and comes to life.

It is one of the best lessons I learnt in my life. The creature inside the shell tells us that sometimes in life we will land in problems that have no way out and in problems that we have no idea how we landed in but we need not freak out. It is just for our protection and nourishment.

That once the time is right we can also break the shell and come to life and once we come back from that eggshell (problem) we are a much better person.

Only for what we have experienced.

Here, I also want to add another thing. The eggshell we are talking about it is possible that we won't break it in our first attempt.

We may just have to keep trying again and again to break the eggshell but that does not mean all your attempts when you don't get out of the shell are failures.

Sometimes you may have to deal with this problem with a blacksmith approach.

A blacksmith has to use his hammer 100 times until it breaks down the Iron or it takes the correct shape.

But we need to understand that all his hundred strikes were important to achieve the result.

His success was not the result obtained from the 100th strike but the result obtained by the sum of all 100 strikes.

To break your eggshell(problem) you never know how many strikes it will take. But understand you are always one strike closer to success.

So keep trying one more time until it is the final strike. Until it finally breaks.

Until you know that you have defeated the problem by striking it a 100 times, Never give up. Never failing until you succeeded.

This is not just about writing another article. Unlike all other articles, I intend to achieve something with my words here.

I intend to strike a conversation with you. I want to talk to each one of you. We have all been through or are facing some really tough times in our life.

And some of us have got too much on the plate to deal with.

Don't worry this is not that post where I will question your abilities to deal with stress and situations.

I am sure we are all warriors and warriors never fight to lose. We fight and We either win or vanish fighting but never lose.

I also know this for a fact that we all have a way we want to deal with things.

Especially those of us dealing with depression and anxiety. I know how difficult it is.

I know you have listened to too much already.

I know you don't want to listen to anything more and I know it's dark in there.

But I am not here to talk, I am not here to help and not here to do any favors.

No popular quotes, No many syllable words and No advice on how you should sort things out.

I am just here to tell you I am listening and that I should always be there to listen to you.

I want to tell you that I have complete faith in the person that you are and you would leave these dark traces behind in search of your light.

I am here to draw a "HAND". A hand that wants to help you. A hand that I want to craft with my words.

A hand that tells you about how sure I am about you getting out of your tough times. A hand of Assurance.

I just wanted to do this so that whenever anyone of you does want to talk, you should know that I am available and ready to listen.

I would listen to you without being judgmental and intolerant of your views.

I would listen to you with undivided attention and I would listen to you endlessly.

I am doing this because I want to.

I want to make sure that whenever anyone of you wants to go grab that hand and come out of dark even if for some time they should not be hesitant.

I would also love to listen to examples and observations from your lenses.