It’s necessary to reflect

Every day, we consume an enormous amount of data. And in a day, 80 out of 100 things are not useful—at least not in the long run. So, I would safely assume in percentage 80% (and I’m being very generous here; it could go up to 95%) of what we consume is unnecessary. Now, the question is: unnecessary for what? Well, unnecessary for reflection, for taking a closer look at ourselves, for understanding ourselves—and I think we hardly ever do that.

We just follow new trends, chase people and things, and start believing in ideas without putting any real thought into them. External influences have now piled up like a mountain of garbage, burying our original nature deep beneath. We don’t know how to find ourselves under that pile.

So, by ‘reflect,’ I mean clearing that garbage, one thought at a time, making an effort every day to re-discover our real selves. In a true sense, it’s de-influencing; it’s about returning to the originality of simply being ourselves.