Day 088

Dear dreamer,

Control or not...

You can choose to control your life and what you do or not. The choice is always yours. 

You can choose to be borderless or have borders everywhere. I will suggest you are bordered on every side. Take control of everything you do every moment to what takes up your time and space. Focus. Well, today, I was reminded of how important this is to us as individuals. I stopped doing every other person's job and just did mine yesterday and out of the blue, I realised that I was effective. I was able to complete my own work and even had time for other things. 

Now, there was a catch. I still need to focus on the right things. That is also being bordered. I need to hold down my fort and say this is what I need to do. That is exactly what I lacked right now. The noise in my activities were a lot and I need to filter them out before they pose a real threat. 

Usually, our lives will be riddled with choice of what we can do and can not and we always have to make a choice on what is priority or not and stick to it. This is what will determine what our borders will be. I lived a borderless life today and the consequence is with me. I could not get a lot of the most important things done. Tomorrow will be better I think. Looking forward to a new chance to correct what needs to be corrected after all, this is the only chance to live my dreams. 


                ~A Penniless Dreamer

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