Overcome Your Doubts
We are rarely clear about our future. The unknown is waiting for us in another twist of life or the uncertainty which we could face in every coming morning that would cause the feeling of anxiety in us.
I would like to divide people into two groups. The first group consists of people who prefer to not mention such fear. They live in the moment. On the contrary, the people from the other group prefer to build their lives by thinking of their future. They make the decisions only after they went through all the outcomes in their mind.
Students seem to be the same. They worry about their prospects. So, what are they afraid of? What worries deep inside that are torturing them? Maybe it is the anxiety related to their future profession in medicine, or maybe it is something bigger, something general that could affect the whole life?
Conversations with fellow students make me think that all of these fears are connected. The dread of getting lower grades is always tied to the eagerness of being a successful man in the profession, and eventually to be successful people in life. The anxiety that students feel during their semesters cause them doubt in their abilities, chances and possibilities in life.
These fears can exist in your subconscious or can flourish in your thoughts constantly. Students become unsatisfied with themselves, their studies or with their life. Such doubts can never do good to anyone especially to young people who are in their crucial moment. They need to make a choice of their lives, start building a foundation for their happiness and stable future at this exact moment. It can cause enormous stress to them.
These decision-making processes in the young person are easily manipulated by the society, older generations, some imaginary races with peers, and the peculiar programming from their childhood in the form of being asked about their plans for the upcoming life. All these social norms make young people start to believe — believe in the necessary to know and envision their future in detail.
If you think about it, we can’t constantly live by thinking of the ‘upcoming’. You will miss those moments and everything taking place right now. Another ‘today’ could be lost if you keep doubting on your own. Sometimes it is better not to think about the right and the wrong of your choices and go ahead, just do it. Do it without any doubt, any fear, to live your day without looking back onto your future.
But, with the mentality ‘only living for today’ is wrong too. I suppose finding a balance between spontaneity and reasonableness is difficult, but it is something that we can call it as the secret of happiness without any hesitation. It is important to have the intuition in yourself, let life go by in its natural way. Remember, you make your own luck. I hope my fellow peers can learn to do it and won’t ever let their doubts destroy them.
text Anastasia Guslyakova
translated by Anastasia Guslyakova
edited by Lai Yen Xing, Reshma Durai
