When all of us were in school or college we used to say to each other. I am going to be rich and I am going to be XYZ. And that was kind of like wishful thinking. It was sort of like expecting the change would magically happen. And then we get the taste of reality. We face the music and from that point onwards we realize the life is going to be tough.
Then we forget our dreams and often meet people who we feel like our dream version. That is when the jealousy comes into the play. In all of this we forget that we have to build our own self one day at a time.
So how does one build their future self? Like a jigsaw puzzle.
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Future Self requires Missing Pieces
You are what you thought about in past. You are going to think today that will make the future. So your future self is already missing it's future pieces. Like do you dream yourself healthy? Are you healthy right now? If not how come your future self will become what you are right now? You have to try to eat healthy and build yourself healthy for that future self.
Future Self Has New Pieces
You picture yourself a rich person? In that case are you rich person? No? So how come you expect that person to build from what you are right now. In that case you have to change your habits and start to build yourself slowly into that. So you have to adopt those things that your future self requires and build on those new pieces.
Future Self is Perfect from Struggle
Do you think your future self which is better version of you become that without struggle? You have to polish yourself such that you are a diamond. And you realize that there is nothing in this world you can achieve just by staying still or doing nothing. Yeah good things in life requires you working harder than what you do right now. And you have to build your future self from same amount of struggle.
Future Self Requires a lot of Positivity
You can't make yourself some sort of anti christ out of being always negative. You have to think positive and build your positive persona. You have to be positive for your future self. Not because you have a good day today but your future self requires your positive behavior today so that you can build your positive persona later.
Conclusion
Life is like a puzzle. And our future self is that jigsaw puzzle whose pieces we have to put together right now. And that seems to be the only way for us to build the persona one day at a time. I have realized that some of the time you have to understand that you cant build future in vaccum but by placing pieces one day at a time for future.
Do you build your future self by connecting pieces today? :)