Our Story: Overcoming Inner Conflicts
Everyone faces conflicts, but it's the inner ones that shape us the most. Here’s a journey through mine.
My Journey Through Inner Conflicts
As humans, we all come across conflicts in our life. While external conflicts might be difficult to handle, inner conflicts are the hardest. Every one of us has faced some conflicts throughout our lives. For some, it might be the fear of heights or the desire for power, and for some, it might be the fear of rejection and wondering why you’re not good enough. I too had a conflict while growing up. It was the fear of being unintelligent enough.
As far as I can remember, I was an average student. I had neither any particular talent nor any remarkable traits. Feeling stuck in the middle, I tried my hardest to excel academically. I would toil for hours to memorise my lessons so that I would score better on my exams. No matter how hard I would try, the information stored in my memory would hardly reflect on the papers. Back then, I didn’t know the science behind it. Years later, I read in books that to strengthen one’s understanding of a subject, a neural network must be formed and reinforced in the human brain.
Realization and Growth
As I grew older, beginning to see and observe the world, I dreamt that one day I would figure out what was wrong with me. I looked for the answers in various books, videos, and discussions. These observations helped me to conclude that I was never unintelligent but had an innate human tendency to categorize things that have wronged me.
I realised that humans are different from one another. Each carries its own universe of existence. Thus creating and putting labels on them would be immensely difficult, if not at all an impossible task. We all have everything necessary: emotions, cognition, and working memory, but the difference is in the ratio and the sequence of its arrangement. That difference is what makes us so unique and human.
Connecting the Dots
As I grew older, I learned to look beyond things on a surface level. I have known and experienced multiple faults in the current education system. And with all these, I realised that we all should do something from our sides to make the system, a little less clutter-free. Learning doesn’t stop after 18 years of schooling. We all need ongoing guidance and mentoring throughout our lives. Just like a knife, the human mind retains its sharpness with continuous usage.
Steve Jobs once said that you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. The dots are nothing but the efforts we make in our lives every day. I believe that these dots are our pit stops in our respective careers which are closely interconnected. We might not see the connection today, but when we look back at them, we see the connection.
This story is not about a little boy who would blame his fate for being “the average in everything,” but of a person who wins his conflicts by connecting the dots with passion, effort, and sincerity.
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