Transformation

“The pessimist complains about the wind,

The optimist expects it to change

But the Realist, adjusts the sails"

-William Arthur Ward

In life, all of us people are faced with situations where we are pinned to the wall with little or no freedom of movement, at such times we lose hope and start giving up. But what we always forget is that we still and always have a choice- a choice/freedom to react to a situation. We need to look at the situation and not understand what personality type are we, rather think about what are we gonna do about it? We always have a choice, we get to choose our frame of reference- whether we are pessimistic, whether we are optimistic or are we a realist.

But in the end the only thing that really matters is that we get to choose what we got to do about it. And so if one decides to fight against the current, be angry about the situation, to argue, to complain, that person will never go anywhere except where the current takes him. What is to be remembered in such a situation is that we have control- to react, to adjust the sails so that we harness the power of the current to our advantage. As Alice Walker said, “The most common way people lose power is by thinking that they don’t have any.”

 

As true as it is, what is also true is that we always have a choice, we always have the power. No matter what happens in you life, we always have that one thing, that one choice- to ascribe the desired meaning to the situation. No one can take away the way you choose to react to a situation, and this reaction will be the building bricks to your future. It isn't your intentions, it isn’t your thoughts, it is what you choose to manifest into the world. And as you take action (identify and react), the world reacts, you progress, you learn, you build and as you build, you create things and as you create things, you can construct a world that matches your vision. But at the core of it is the understanding that you have the power.

One loses that power by giving up to pessimism, negativity and complaining. But if you are an optimist and an action taking realist, you know that there is always something that can be done in any situation to take advantage. Always ask a question, ‘how is this worse thing that happened to me actually the best thing that ever happened to me' and when a person flips the mind-set like that, nothing in the real world actually changes, but you start seeing the things differently and that bad thing becomes something empowering. It acts as a pivot, as a message from the Universe that it’s time to change, this pivot then leads to transformation.

Now coming to what actually is transformation, well we all know that when you keep the water in a freezer it becomes ice and when it is kept out of the freezer, it again becomes water- this is change of form or a temporary phenomenon, but when the larva/caterpillar transforms into a butterfly- that is transformation, because it cannot go back to being a caterpillar again. This is what one should choose to do at the right time. But only transforming the present is not enough, for a true upgrade, transforming the past is as critical because that is what helps in maintaining your power and momentum or even grow it because it comes from understanding that you own your actions and take responsibility to transform, to harness the situation- that leads to the belief that you are in control and when you are in control, you can go wherever you want.

And as the Ancient One puts it in Doctor Strange, “drop the ego because you cannot beat a river into submission, so surrender to its current and use its power as your own.”

So, transform, surrender control and eventually control because transformation is power. Life doesn’t transform you for no reason and the catalyst could be a person and a man will always choose to transform for the right person so pay heed and choose to transform! Well, today this is a commitment even I made to myself to be the best version of myself.

Ciao and Cheers & blessings for the transformations coming your way!

Credits: Picture- Harvard Macy & Content- Doctor Strange from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Tom Bilyeu