Flow State of Mind - Don't Chase your Dreams

So we are said that a life where we don't chase our dreams is a life not worth living for. A life where we don't take every single step in trailing our goals is a life without meaning. This tendency of human beings to set target or put benchmark or set the bulls-eye to throw the dart stems because it gives us a sense of purpose, a meaning perhaps a reason for us to live. Because the last thing any of us want is a life without meaning. Well to counter that life really has no meaning in itself. The evolution of us or any other species for that matter is without reason what so ever. Every purpose that we have defined for ourselves is from the figment of our imagination. So if you really wanna add meaning to your life why not to do something that is more efficient and that could emancipate us from this mental slavery because nothing is more imprisoning than putting your life in chasing something- be it a girl or money or most chased of all, the holy grail- Our dreams.

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So every day when you get up, brush your teeth and set out to chase your dreams. You might be doing it all right. You might be working very hard but the only thing wrong is that you use your work as a way to reach your goal. You use your passion as a medium to seek the reward which is, by the way, is the only ingredient that turns milk sour. So with this approach of chasing dreams we instead of freeing ourselves through our work, get enslaved to the outcome of it. We get bounded by time. We are constantly threatened by its possible failure. What if I fail? Which is perhaps the biggest reason why many of us never ever live our dreams. We get demotivated and the most threatening of all the death. Not to forget that we are mortal being we will die. Whether you are following or chasing your dreams or not this the destiny we all share and the worst- we don't know when.

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So if you are chasing something it might be that you never ever reach that thing.  So the right way is not to chase our dreams but to live them. If you want to do something do it every day without being enticed by the success of it or scared by the failure of it. Work in itself is enough of a reason for you to work. You don't need any mission or goal to get you work or in the words of Vincent Van Gogh " A work in itself is the highest reward and worth any sacrifice." And when you let yourself completely absorbed in your work you get into a flow state. It's a state where you feel completely engaged in an activity. You are neither bored nor anxious, you don't doubt your own adequacy, hours pass by without your notice or as Jamie Wheals says " A sense of timelessness, effortlessness, and selflessness." You are no more constricted by time. You are no more threatened by your death. The dreams that you were chasing is now lived by you so long as you keep yourself absorbed in your work. So long as you be in that flow state. And the only way to reach the flow state is when you pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the reward it brings.

So if you wanna be a writer, write every day regardless of how many people are reading you. If you wanna be a singer sing every day doesn't matter how many people are lending their ears. And if you wanna be a painter make sure that you make your canvass dirty every single day and don't give a shit whether it will ever be sold. I mean though life's got no meaning but by living our dreams instead of chasing them we might be happier and can have a smile on our face which is, by the way, is the most important thing to do to keep smiling.

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