Precious Baby Steps

The moment a baby’s cries are tamed with what the little bundle see’s through his/her eyes when crawling, instantly the mother will start to realize that it’s not very long before her son/daughter starts to take the first steps. That first baby steps are very precious to the mother because it involves a big decision whereby, she has to accept that the moment for her to let go her son/daughter has arrived. There’ll no longer be following the instructions but each instruction will be accompanied with a WHY and of course sometimes a little truth or dare game.

No matter how old we grow a mother does not forget that moment and she’ll keep those memories fresh especially when we fall in life. Our baby steps were never smooth where there was wobbling at first, then we crawled back and then we tried to stand again till a balance was achieved. The innocence gathered with the driven force within made us achieve success but we tend to take it lightly when we start to find and stand on our ground presently. Till now everyone remembers their childhood fondly and even wishes to take a few steps back just to go through that phase once again. However, with the increase of responsibilities which falls in accordance to our age we no longer value those baby steps that exist even now. Of course, it’s not like old times but it’s a modified version of courage + choice = fall/success and there might be redundancy as well. 

When we enter adulthood, it might seem to be a little intimidating especially when parents start to play their role in advising. Certain choices tend to be wrong to our parent's eyes and when it’s from the eyes of our peers it will be right. Going against our parents is a NO NO but let’s be realistic, have we ever not go against our parent’s will? Of course, when it involves life threatening choices or any other major decisions it’s a must to include them. Though sometimes we will still want to give it a try even though the support and encouragement might not be like expected there’ll always be the desire to achieve that. We start to dream big and when the dream starts to expand our confidence also tags along with the opposite effect (fear). The decision won’t be taken merrily but that one small step of try or will towards it is already a big success.

Besides that, baby steps define who you are because everyone’s steps differ in accordance to attitude and aptitude. The synchronization of both produces the diversity which defines you for you are. My friend is a crazy fan of cars and at the early stage of my friend’s tertiary education, an investment for a car was made. Almost most of the money was indulged in it due to the burning desire. The flame was not put out even by the parent’s disagreement and as a result, a trouble in standing for a short period but my friend had made an obligation; “NO troubling parents due to own financial constraints”. So, eventually started an entrepreneurial life with very minimal knowledge but the gradual baby steps did not impede the dream of being the best version and coping up with all the impossibilities. Well, even now my friend’s success still requires baby steps at each of phase of life.

Life will feel new with your own perspective when those baby steps are attempt and valued. A new start we hear people say regularly. A simple sentence which contains such deep meaning and task enforcement sometimes tend to lack the required force to get going. Baby steps are no longer valued highly at moments because we as adults want to take a huge leap forgetting that we are also an average human with the tendency to commit a mistake. Then, when we fall hard on the ground even the soil no longer feels soft to lay down anymore. Success takes a whole lot of late nights, early mornings and keeping up to it is not an easy talk. You wake up late the first day or miss your target for the time being feel proud for making it until the end of the day because some do not even make through the entire day and start to give up in midday sharing their misery with the entire nation in the middle of the road.

So, negative feelings will never subside even though you walk aimlessly in the middle of nowhere. Every night, before going to bed think about the baby which didn’t give up till he/she got to walk steadily. There was no fear or regret in those eyes when a step was missed but still went on by valuing each second and acknowledging each attempt. Whenever you fall next time, think yourself has the baby back then whom woke up and does not claim herself/himself as a failure but always a born champion that dissolves fear with those baby steps!

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