It is how it is. Living in this era, isn't easy. Not at all. I don't know if it was always the same. But sometimes, living in now seems very hard. Getting mocked and ridiculed for appearance, for the virtues we don't hold, ignoring all the things we are capable of, has become an everyday thing.

Right from the birth, a baby is disregarded on the basis of gender and color, both of which, of course, a newborn has no control over. After somehow growing up, the society makes sure that we end up with the least self esteem possible, right from our childhood. Fortunately, if everything in our childhood goes good, teenage us, trying to be the savage and cool gangsters mess up our own lives. And if adolescence, by God's grace, turns out smooth, you have a plenty of opportunities to mess yourself up after your teenage. Adding to all this, a bunch load of inevitable, unpredictable gifts wrapped in the disguise of life is delivered timely. And so, here you are. Here we all are! Teens and twenties year old, battered, hopeless, scarred, under-confident surviving homo sapiens. 

We numb ourselves up saying 'everyone will always just comment'. But that doesn't work sometimes. And we really badly want someone to just say that we are awesome. We grow up being the inferior losers with a whole bunch of awesomeness trapped in us, waiting for someone to approve us and bring out that treasure from within us. 

There are paid workshops of growing our self esteem, being conducted and the amount of people enrolling for it is insane. It is so important to survive right now. I wonder why this is not being taught in homes, schools and colleges for free. 

We have all been hunting for peace of mind. Meditation, yoga, exercise, doing what you love, etc., etc., But we are still searching for someone to teach us how to calm the 24/7 running machine - our brain.

The point is.. we are all no different. We are all broken. Life just works that way. We want someone to teach us how to live it, at some point in life. And that's perfectly okay for us. What's not okay is criticism. Right? So this concludes how we should treat others too. Don't do it, if you don't want it. Let's keep it mutual!

We expect to be loved though we are broken and imperfect. But how many times have we tried to accept and love other broken, imperfect ones? We are all going to meet incomplete people everyday. The best thing to do is to be the person YOU want to meet. A little more caring, a little more understanding, knowing that different things hurt everyone differently, showing light without criticism - is all that it takes to make broken people beautiful.