I wish the answer was ‘never.’ I really do. I wish everything was clear and simple. It never is, however.
When do we start doubting? When something goes wrong? When we stop understanding something? When we see sudden unpleasant changes? What if we can honestly and with clear consience say that we have been doing everything possible to keep doubts out of our minds and souls? But what if … we are doubting.. not ourselves? Does that mean we cannot do anything about those doubts? Nothing to improve the situation?
I guess we cannot. Time will show. And we cannot control time. We cannot control the situation. There is only so much we can do. Everything else should be left to time… It will show everything.. My wish is only that that far away moment, which we are looking for does not procrastinate, does not run away from us. My wish is that at that moment in future, no matter what happens, we still can see the meaning in what have been done in the past, in what have happened, and in what the efforts and hopes been put for.
I wish we could be strong enough to not let doubts invade our minds, to not let them change our believes.
At some point I discovered. We let those doubts in only when there is a lack of self-confidence. Then the question is “where can we take this self-confidence from?”. Easy. The only unquenchable source of it is knowledge.
The trick is in how we use knowledge. It is not enough just to know. We have to learn!
To know-to learn-to be confident-to be self-confident!
By: Luckypenguin on May 10, 2010
at 12:36 am
Thank you for the comment. You know you are right that the source is knowledge. I agree with that. I even can see how doubt can be in lack of self-confidence.. But I do not think this is the case.. Sometimes doubt has nothing to do with anyone’s confidence, at least not self-confidence. Sometimes doubt comes from the facts…
By: theseawave on May 13, 2010
at 2:08 am
Tell me the case, and I will try to show how the system works. Is it the one you wrote me about couple mails ago?
By: luckypenguin on May 13, 2010
at 10:45 pm
Wow, very philosophical. I tried to get to Lucky Penguin’s blog but it is closed off now. I think she switched over to Russian anyway. Glad you were still writing as of a year ago. I’m glad you are my FB friend!!!
By: kazaknomad on May 30, 2011
at 1:49 pm