THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD THAT NEVER SEEMS SATISFIED

The Human mind is the most important thing and it can become one of the loudest places in your life when the voice in it never feels satisfied. No matter what you do or what you achieve, it tells you it's not enough. No matter how hard you try, it keeps reminding you of that thing you haven't done. Even in moments you are to feel proud of yourself, that voice quietly whispers to you that you're behind, you could have done better with this or it tells you that you're not where you are yet. 

There are lots of people out there who silently carry this kind of pressure in them. We all constantly smile on the outside while we keep fighting a tough battle on the inside. We wake up everyday trying to be better, wanting to do more, achieve more success, fix more and somehow, our minds still refuses to understand the little progress we're making. And with that, we begin to criticize ourselves. 

Sometimes, those whispers comes from comparison. We look at people around us and we somehow feel like our journey has no value because we think they are ahead of us. We have those around that are succeeding publicly and we're there struggling privately because we're judging by their own pace, we kind of measure our own worth based on what others are into. 

At times, that unsatisfied voice is created by pressure. The pressure to win quickly, make family proud, become financially stable, heal from the past and to prove ourselves to people who doubted us. 

Without realizing it, we slowly begin to live like a pause is a crime, slowing down means failure and making it look like if we're not producing constantly, we don't deserve peace. 

The truth is, growth is only achieved a step at a time. Growth is not always loud and the progress might not be visible sometimes. Like someone would say, "Not every season of our lives is meant to look successful on the outside". 

There are times in our lives where surviving is an achievement. There are days when waking up alone is winning, moments when trying again is a big step and there are times when healing quietly matters more than proving anything to anyone. 

The dangerous thing about trying to satisfy our minds every time is that it can make us overlook how far we've made it already. Many of us become so focused on the next level ignoring how we got till there. There are battles at every stage of life, and if we lived to tell the stories, we're warriors, winning warriors. 

Many of us tend to forget the version of ourselves that once wanted what we have today. We forget the nights we almost gave up but decided to go again. We forget the moments we thought we would never heal from. That's because of the constant discharge of whispers that makes peace sound difficult. To experience peace, our minds begin to tell us to look the other way because the moment that happiness starts to feel comfortable, the joy looks temporary because our minds are always searching for what is missing rather than appreciating what it's got already. 

As we all know, self awareness is very important. We must learn the difference between having a healthy ambition and one that carries a self-destruction desire in it. 

To want more from life is not a bad thing but to continue pushing and punishing ourselves for not doing or being enough will eventually cause us more problems than solve them, and our spirits somehow gets drained. 

Do we think it's a problem with wanting to improve ourselves? The problem starts when your value for being human is placed side by side with just your achievements, validations from othets and how much you've accomplished. If peace doesn't exist within you, your mind being satisfied will always feel temporary.

The voice in our heads sometimes is not asking for more success or more achievements, what it's truly asking for is rest, healing, forgiveness and balance. But because we're too focused on chasing the next dream, the next place we want to be, the next position and the next agenda that we fail to listen properly to what our inner voice is telling us. 

We must also understand that life isn't necessarily a race. Everyone is carrying different wounds, different responsibilities, the pains are different, the tests are different and importantly, we run at a different pace in a different timeline. Comparison of your "here we go" chapter with another person's "done and dusted" chapter where there is basically no match will always make you feel inadequate and left behind. And the truth many people avoid is that even people you envy secretly might be struggling with the same problem and emptiness you're trying to escape as well. External success doesn't automatically silence internal battles. 

There are people with money who still feel lost. People with fame who still feel empty. People with achievements who still feel unhappy. Just because of what we see on the outside, we must understand that satisfaction is just about the shine and bright of the outside but it is also built from internal peace. 

One of the greatest form of maturity a person could have is learning to appreciate their progress while still trying to improve on themselves, to have the ambitious mind in you without hating yourself, to grow without constantly insulting the person you currently are... All of these things are traits of maturity of the highest level and pedigree. 

It was never a template to begin with that you become perfect before you deserve peace or you need to have everything figured out before you rest. Many people have gone with the "we either get it or die trying" rule to push themselves beyond limit which needs them to constantly show they are worthy of their own existence with justifications that goes against their will. 

Sometimes, the best thing you can do for yourself is to let go off that voice and remind yourself of your growth at your own pace. If you consider the battles you've won and the hardship that almost ended your journey, but today you're here, and the difficult moments you've survived, you'll understand how strong you are and that already means something because at the end of the day, life becomes too heavy when the war on the inside never ends. And if care is not taken, the voice in your head can make you blind to the beauty of your own journey and the reward for your persistence.

Let's learn to appreciate small progress, learn to rest without guilt and stop measuring our value only by results. And most importantly, learn to speak to yourself with the same kindness you give to others. 

Growth is very important, a one step at a time thing but also, inner peace matters a lot.

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