Are You Going Crazy?

I MAYBE AM LOSING MY MIND. Do you ever have days or nights when you just can’t fall asleep because of the seemingly thousand words or images whirling endlessly like a tornado inside your head?

I don’t know if I’m just getting crazy but I have moments when I’m physically present in a certain place but my whole mind is stuck in a trance. It could be fixated on a lyrics I’m mentally writing to a tune I created in my head, an unborn plot of a fantasy fiction book, or a slideshow of never-ending portraits I’m translating to poetry.

In our day to day life, you may sometimes find your thoughts glued to a routine where you no longer feel like yourself anymore.

Moments where it feels like you have thrown away any speck of imagination out the window or worst, a great vision or imagination already chained to your hands but it’s all trapped inside a cage, waiting and wanting to be free.

In my case, like whenever there’s a “mission impossible” task in front of me, a huge chunk of worry constantly takes over. It’s those times when you’re just simultaneously being slapped with report deadlines and immediate rush works arising out of nowhere, plus of course, an entire personal life you have to handle (which some of you thinks it no longer exist). But yes, it still does!

A simple example of that was a time wherein I was filling up a form, fully remembering my work phone number but can’t suddenly memorize my personal one, which I’ve been using like what, 7 years now? It was a funny moment but somehow, a wave seemed to have crashed upon me into thinking that I was again residing inside the box of a reality I was forcing my mind to live in.

With that being said, I honestly believe that one of the ways for you to conquer fear and worries when pursuing life outside your comfort zone, is to increase and strengthen your imagination on the possibilities you want to have and become in the future.

Imagination is your creativity in action. It does not just improve your learning process as you go through challenging times in life, but it also influences everything you do, think about and create. Imagination can provide you different ideas and a whole new perspective that can make you think out of the box.

Let’s take it from two of my most favorite icons, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. They used their imagination, visualizing how personal computers and mobile gadgets could change the world through not just entertainment, but through the way we work, through how we could educate our children as well as the future generations. And just look at the world now. We must all be grateful for them putting their vision into action!

Everybody has the ability to imagine but not everyone is aware how powerful an imagination gets if you turn it into manifestation. You have to remember that every material thing or a legendary moment in history, created and executed by humans were all first imagined. So it doesn’t matter if you imagine creating something simple as post-its, or doing something complex like landing on the Moon. Because at the end of day, it’s how you make those imaginations come to life.

Recently, I have been obsessively reading and learning a lot about Elon Musk, a famous technology entrepreneur who is mostly known for his goal of being able to bring humanity to Mars. And to be honest, I can’t help but just be mind-blowned of how this man thinks and how he always inculcates vision in everything that he says or does.

In one of his interviews he said that "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor”.

It immediately caught me off-guard. Every time I try to do something new that makes me a bit uncomfortable, my mind seems to be looking for reasons not to do it. Voices screaming at me that I am not enough. I am weak. I will fail. It’s not worth it.

During the first weeks of the world’s quarantine series, I felt like I was so busy but my heart felt empty. I was searching for something that could bring back the fire that was once burning. I looked for answers to questions I don’t even know how to ask in the first place.

I knew about Musk before but I was suddenly so curious why he thinks and acts the way he does. What is going on inside this guy’s mind!? Here I am dwelling on such petty concerns about myself but this man whose dreams and imagination are so wild! I can’t help but learn what keeps him go on despite the thousands of people disbelieving and calling him insane all throughout his living existence

When I started reading the book, the awakening I experienced was so vivid that I felt so much peace like I was at the deepest and darkest part of the ocean but at the same time, my eyes were unleashing flaming stars out to the skies!

His story pushed me to pursue creating my first website and eBook. A home, I can finally call, for my vision of a community where anyone gets to dream freely, explore every possibility, and seek for anyone’s story to be lived beyond the ordinary. A home, for anyone who feels afraid to try, anyone who doubts their passion, anyone who wants to get out of their comfort zone and anyone who wants to transcend any aspect of their life.

When encountered by fear, close your eyes and maximize what amazing things you can imagine for yourself. Take your vision and dreams to greater heights. I tell you, it’s such a wonderful outlet and reminder of how colorful and beautiful life could be outside of what you deemed as reality.