"Complacency is the greatest enemy. Enemy will exploit all gaps in our mental readiness." This is a line from Naruto Shippuden 241. Naruto is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and dreams to become the Hokage, the ninja in his village who is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all.
Not only that this anime talks about friendship and loyalty, this anime as a whole teaches a lot about hard work, patience and willingness to learn. We are faced with trials everyday. Can you count how many times you feel down and how many times up? How many times did you experience rejections, failures and mockery? I bet you can count more negative feelings. This negative feelings are persistent. This is good. What? How can this be good? This prepares you to be strong and be resilient. How? Now that you know how it is to have a negative feeling, i.e. you are not motivated to work, you lack energy, you seem the world is coming down on you, you resigned to yourself and more, you will do things to prepare yourself not to experience them. Your goal is to live a stress-free (or to be realistic stress-less life). So subject yourself to all kind of stimulation and try to get all the lessons from them, try to remember all the feelings that you felt. It would help if you write them too. And then formulate on how to cope with it. For example, you feel so lonely because you are away from your family and will be missing a very important occasion, write this down on one column, then on the other column should be your solution to address this feeling. One item maybe is saying, schedule an online video session, or leave a video message and encourage them to do the same. You have to keep this list of yours and get back to it when you always feel this feeling. What is important is you acknowledge the feeling and then do something about it. Don't let the emotion overpower you. Don't be complacent.
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