Befriending yourself is the first step to befriending the world!

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and become tensed about the long pending things that you have to do, gotten sweaty and unable to go back to sleep? That is what over-thinking does to human brain! You know, it's a vicious circle, if you go on thinking, you can't sleep and if you can't sleep, you can't stop thinking. And this circle will go on and on until you learn to control your flow of thoughts. And that can happen only when you learn how to stop the mind from wandering here and there.

The biggest achievement in human life is to be able to make the mind free of thoughts. And those of you who think it is easy to do, try concentrating on a blank white page for 2 minutes right now and you will get to know how complicated it is to look at a plain page, more complicated than tallying accounts and developing softwares. Try getting one person to do it properly and if you find one, ask them the secret of doing it. For it is not an easy task to not do anything and stay calm. It needs you to love the company of self and to not need anyone else at some times. And loving the company of one's self is the biggest gift one can give to themselves, other than finding their soul mate in this life. The reason I'm saying all this is because when you love the company of yourself you do not need the company of anyone else, not even of those thoughts that keep bothering you in the night not letting you sleep. There lie the answers to all your questions, why doesn't some person like you, why you cannot make friends at college/work, when and how you will be able to complete all work in time, etcetera.

The one person who can understand you is YOU and the one person who can solve all your problems is YOU. And once you stop looking for your answers in others, you will get the answer to all your questions. Just try once to not look for a friend in other people and make yourself your friend, and see how you forget you were alone. This doesn't at all mean that i am asking you to stay aloof from the outside world and concentrate just on yourself. The only reason I am saying this is that even though making friends and being in relationships is a very good and essential thing, one more important thing that we miss out on is to befriend ourselves. And until we understand ourselves, we can understand no one else, and no one else can understand us. So what I'm saying is, 'Befriending yourself is the first step to befriending the world'. And what can be better than starting good things with yourself? Just try it once and you will yourself know how wonderful it feels to have yourself as your most favourite person. Plus you will get to know how it feels to have a friend like you, how lucky your friends must be!