Hi guys, I hope the week has been lovely and productive. Well done my people. I have come to share with you, my own ways of travelling light, in reaction to Travel light Tuesday pompt. I believe there's no how we walk without shaking our head. There's no how we can be in this wide world without stepping on people's toes, or they stepping on ours. In fact, it's a complex world, this time we offend one, next time, they offend us. Then how do we stay clutter free? How do we have our peace? How do we retain our sanity?
For me, especially, having issues or misunderstanding with people do have a negative toll on me. Maybe because of my faith or my easy-going lifestyle. I don't want problem. I don't like quarrelling. I don't like holding grudges against anyone, even when It is clear that things are in evitable in human relations. So, whenever I had a misunderstanding with anyone. My mental space would become messed up. You know the guilt, regret, self blame and disappointment that trail my heart would be second to none. I would be feeling I shouldn't allowed that issue to escalate, even when I couldn't have curtailed it. I would just feel like beating myself up and sometimes hated myself even when the other party was the one at fault.
It happened like that for a while until my brother caution me to always take things easy on myself. He asked me why I would be emotionally down, when the other party involved was laughing and enjoy him/her. He preached self-love to me and told me to embrace it above all things. He alsoadvised me to find a better way to be getting rid any burden that weighs me down but definitely not putting it on myself. So, I decided to embrace dialogue as my own hack of getting rid of both mental and emotional burden.
Dialogue is a face-to-face conversation that allows me to express myself, listen to other and settle whatever dispute in a polite way. I so much love dialogues because it has helped me to lift unnecessary burden off my mind in so many times. Often times, I discovered the issue I was worrying about never even existed, when I dialogue with the other party. In fact, I consider it a minimalist approach because it is so simple. Dialogue approach helps parties to express themselves and apologise where necessary. It is simple and sometimes costs nothing. Dialogue discourages unjust punishment on one-self but resolve issues in the most amicable way without going to the extreme of hurting oneself or another. Minimalist lifestyle is just the best. It opens eyes to various simple ways of resolving things.
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