Poem : 🌷 " Mental Peace N Balance "
Poetess : Tilottama Vijay Lele

Whenver we get caught unawares,
Our immediate response is always "Yes”

Hence saying YES becomes our pattern. 
Becuz we opt for easiest option...

Just to avoid hurting feelings of others 
We say yes even when we don’t want to

It feels easier to disappoint ourselves 
Than to disappoint someone else...

We don’t realise how heavy it makes us 
From outside as well as from inside us 

We carry our habits, thoughts n fears
Like a small bag that gradually fills up 

Until it starts weighing us down. 
We do nothing but occasionally frown 

Generally we overthink everything.
N imagine every possible scenario of it 

Sometimes even d one that doesn’t exist, 
With d thoughts on fixing it 

That drains our energy without notice 
Maybe that’s how it happens with all of us

Habits stay quietly Within a person…
N then slowly they turn into a burden…

We don’t intend to carry them, all along 
Until we accept them like nothing's wrong 

One fine day we realise that we’re tired, 
Carrying unwanted useless things’ load 

We feel exhausted n hopeless... 
As we hold so much within ourselves.

Then we come to understand though 
D importance of simply saying “ No “

When we feel something isn’t for us,
N when our intuition gives us signals.

We can say no when we‘ve doubts 
N anything that takes away our peace.

So d first “no” is to overthinking.
Becuz we've realised how it's draining .

D second “no” is to carry things
That no longer serve us yet exhausting 

Third “no” is to all that asks us to shrink
N compel us to just fit in…

When we say no to things that drain us, 
We'll say yes to thing that really matters 

This'll surely make a huge difference...
N will give us mental peace n balance...

🌷@Tilottama Vijay Lele
🙏🕉️🔆