Heys
Heys is a collection of my letters I send to myself. It's a way for me to step out of me and reflect on me, and life.
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash, riding a bike is so natural to you right now that you don’t even think about it but I distinctly remember how when you were a kid and learning to bicycle, you were scared shitless any time someone let go of the bike. This is how learning feels like. It feels scary, it feels like you don’t know what you’re doing, it feels like you’re going to fall down, it feels like you’re going to hurt yourself, it feels like you’re going to make a fool of yourself. You think you can’t seem to learn but I want to argue that it’s just false narrative in your head. The mere fact that you’re sitting here right now suggests to me that you can learn anything. What I do think happened is that overtime you’ve let your fears take hold you cause I distinctly remember when fear never stopped you from diving head first into literally anything. But today it seems like you avoid learning like a plague cause of fear. Don’t let that fear stop you my man. You need to look right at the fear and dive head first into learning, You’ve done it a thousands of times before, and I’m certain you can do it thousands more times.
Can you try and be more bolder for me please?
Have a powerful weekend my friend Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash you’re always on lookout for negative feelings, bad habits, negative behaviours in you and you fight so hard to get rid of them. But fighting them counterintuitively makes them stronger and you weaker. You can never win by fighting them. You can only ever hope to win through kindness. You’ve to allow yourself to be kind towards your negative feelings. You’ve to create space for it. And most importantly, you’ve to try to see through the lens of sheer non-judgement. Then, and only then you can hope to win. So go out there and be kind, towards you and others.
Have a lovely day my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash there’s something magical about early mornings that you really like. And I think all the birds chirping outside would agree. I also hear couple of squirrels playing around. It seems as if we are all in-tune with the earth in a way. I think it makes sense cause we’ve only had electricity for what 2-3 centuries? But we’ve been relying on earth for our activities for like hundreds of thousands of years! Anyways the point I am trying to make is that you like waking up early, it makes you productive and I would love to see more of this in you.
Note that you can’t force it. Just appreciate the days when you do wake up early, and know that over time you’d keep doing it more cause you like it!
Have a productive day my friend
Akash
Hi Akash how are you doing today?
You know if there’s one thing that has reliably worked time and again for you is exercise. I can go into details about how and why it helps but tbh it doesn’t matter; if it works, it works. Can you promise to always give it a try before trying anything else?
Thanks, have a lovely evening my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
There’s this visceral resistance that you feel when you sit on your desk to produce something rather than consuming. I still haven’t found a best way to overcome for you but I’m getting there. In the meantime, I think taking very deep breaths, dividing your tasks into smallest units works. Can you try that and let me know how it goes?
Have a productive day my friend
Akash
Hey aakash how are you doing today ?
Why do you wallow in the past? Past is only as good as it helps you learn, It’s not a place to be. It’s just history my friend. The present moment is right in front of you, It’s the most real thing you can experience in life.
Have a lovely night
Akash
Hey Akash, how are you doing today?
Sometimes you seem to forget, but it’s absolutely a wild and awesome time to be alive right now. Literally every single thing in your life right now didn’t exist just a few decades ago. Computers, Airplanes, Waste management, Hot showers, AC, Medicine, Vehicles, Internet, etc and so much damn more man! So there’s always something to be grateful for. Can you try to remember that next time you’re feeling down?
Have a lovely evening Akash
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Every year when the spring comes around, almost all trees just give off their leaves. They look so empty at that point. But come summer, they’re full of all new leaves, full of life again. When you’re fasting, your cells do exactly the same in the process called autophagy (repair or shed off). It seems like a good practice. Why can’t you do that for your creative endeavours and other life things? I think one reason is that you get too attached to things, so it becomes harder for you to let go. But if you don’t let go, it’ll weigh you down. It’s actually very liberating to let go. I think one way to get around it is to reframe it. Make it a ceremony to shed things off just like how trees and your cells do. They’re extremely unselfish in that way.
Have a beautiful day my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash you keep fighting to open the door of opportunity but sometimes maybe the door is just locked you know. And All you can do is level up in all areas of your life so that when someone finally opens the door from the outside, you’re ready. Can you do that for me ? Can you let go of trying to find and open a door and focus on levelling up?
Thanks and have a thoughtful day
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash you’ve this image of ideal Akash and you keep striving towards that. But I feel like that’s a wrong way to look at it cause your image would keep on changing, and more importantly there’d always be a large disparity between your current you and the image. And that’s just going to evoke negative feelings in you. Can you maybe reframe from an ideal image to just doing more of what you like and want to have. For example, I like akash going to gym, I want to do that more often. I think that’d keep compounding. Give it a try.
Have a sunny day my friend
Akash