Captivity of negativity has molded our lives so much that it seems almost impossible to come out of the clutter. Just look around your life. You will see a shield of strong distraction that blocks to get the light of belief and truth that heals the hopelessness. It’s all around and yet we strive to come up each morning with a new vow to start fresh. We try to engage our lives to get rid of the armor of passiveness. Do we?

Life is a journey with the mixed bag of emotions and incidents. Some of them thrash us apart and some of them take us to the moments of euphoria. There has been a long battle between positivity and negativity. Don't you think; it will exist till the last? Yes, it will and fact of the matter is we cannot deny it either. Then why we are the captive of negativity more than the other pole?

When someone says that we are not good enough, we seem to like it. It seems that we foster the thought, which someone threw at us. We start to feel the emptiness. Moreover, we tend to gather adequate logic to compliment the comment. We do not want to face the hard truth. As if the trying out to become someone we want to might hinder the pathway. If someone says that you are not good enough, you can either support it or make it happen for your own sake! We tend to show off more to others than realizing the true need of our own soul. Competition is not with others, it is not about proving others right or wrong. It is about discovering our own confidence and faith within.

When there is hope, trust and belief amazing transformations start to happen. Look around the people who came out of their vulnerabilities. They just started to believe and negativity was all alone to find its empty nest. APJ Abdul Kalam former President of India is a prime example of someone who believed in his own abilities. Born in the most humble background of south India; he was meant to be a boatman initially. A man who could have been just another of the thousand mediocre individual believed that he is not going to end up where he started. Eventually, passing out all the odds of negativity he became one of the most valued persons of all time. Did he lose in life? Yes he did. He wanted to be a pilot and he was just a step away to become one. However, his short-sight did not allow him to become an aviator. Hence, his fortune was awaited with more to offer. When he failed he was so shocked in disbelief that he thought everything was in vain.

He met Swami Sivananda at his Ashram in Rishikesh at that dismantle phase of his life. The life changing advice was there for him as the saint urged, ''Accept your destiny and go ahead with your life. You are not destined to become an Air Force pilot. What you are destined to become is not revealed now but it is predetermined. Forget this failure as it was essential to lead you to your destined path. Search, instead the true purpose of your life existence. Become one with yourself, my son! Surrender yourself to the wish of GOD”. It changed his life to become the ‘Missile Man’ of India.

Let us look back in our lives. What do we see? Did we lose all the time? Was there any single incident where we had come out of the dirt? We did actually, knowingly or unknowingly. Do you want to know why? This is because God has not send us with hollowness. We are his creation and he has given us the choice to choose. We are open to taking the path. It can be either right or wrong. Only human beings have the consciousness to choose their own pathway. He has given us a super computer (brain) to think and judge. The choice we want to make is wide open. When we lose, it does not mean the end of the world. It means a new opportunity embarks us to move ahead. It means we can come out stronger each next time. Life is never meant to be the bed of roses. It is how we perceive to shape it. It is how we see our lives to turn into. Our lives can be the one to remember or the one to suffer.
The choice is ours, only ours.