Hey! Thanks for all the advises that poured in from you all in my last post's comment page. Each of you sounded like you could make a guru for self-help methods and I lapped up all your words of wisdom like an eager student. It set me thinking a bit. Do I have a philosophy for my life?

Yes, a philosophy for life! A philosophy that guides us in the manner in which we conduct ourselves in our lives. A philosophy which influences the way we take those important decisions in our life. Do I have one such philosophy that I stick to in living my life?

To be honest till around one year back I did have one such guideline philosophy to fall back upon in times of weakness and confusions. You would surely be interested to know what it is. Well, its the simple and uncomplicated philosophy of "Live and Let Live". I used to believe in this open-minded, all encompassing, beautiful words with my whole heart.

Then a few events changed the course of my life and gave me a totally different perspective of life.I started viewing my pet philosophy as a weak and too forgiving one. It lacked drive and relied more on a passive method of living. It also sounded like a philosophy that an introvert, shying -away- from- any- sort- of- trouble person would choose. Perhaps, I thought, it would have sounded better if it had said "live and Help live" instead of just "live and let live". So my search for a new philosophy started and to tell you the truth it is still on.

I am seriously looking for some guidelines on which to navigate the rest of the course of my life's ship in this vast ocean of life. Any help forthcoming? Just asking. I don't want to adopt anyone else's mantra for living as my own, but I guess, its good to toss some ideas and see in which direction my thought process is leaning towards. All I can say is that I am done with the live and let live kind of philosophy and am looking for some peppy, motivating philosophy on which to base my beliefs and thoughts.

I am all at sea at this moment and don't know what to make of my life. Sometimes I think "Normal is boring" while at other times I am not convinced about "abnormal" being the wise way of life. I am not looking for success in life instead I am looking for meaning in it. Actually I want to know if this illusion called life needs any philosophy or meaning at all. At this moment my state can be called "drifting with the current" kind of living. And if I can be honest about it I must say it is not a very comfortable way of living for me. Trying to fit in to society's "normal" method of living isn't really appealing to my senses. I want to break free.....out of the constraints that my own inhibitions put around me. Can I find the real me?