Believe in your own power

It is said that, A new born is connected with god directly for few months,
A child is an image of god (very similar),
And an adult is also God's image (a copy) with his/her own set of values, rules and experiences and thus an adult has a responsibility to keep that image of God intact while working through life with his/her set of values and experiences.

In this book I have shared some of the important values I was taught as a kid, by my parents and grandparents and these values were my rules in my toughest times because I felt like I was walking on a very delicate line that could break me consciously and I would fall in my own eyes if I didn't follow these basic principles that I was taught and that according to me make me a good human being, gave me strength and belief in humanity and a better world. I don't call myself a spiritual or a religious person at all but that is where I found my peace and solace when push came to shove because that is all I knew from inside.
Just like a butterfly, struggles to come out of the cocoon, sometimes God's plan work in ways where we are put in a cocoon for our transformative journey which will lead us to God's planned life. The struggles might seem too much at the time, when we are going through them, but remember God only gives us what we can handle. Because after the struggles, just like a butterfly, when we will come out of this cocoon, we will be stronger, have beautiful wings of our own, will know how to fly and will be appreciated by the people we come across in our journey for being 'us'. Just like a butterfly, the cocoon is there for our protection and coming out of it at our pace is the journey of transformation.

This book comes from my experience of a time - when from a wildfire (few incidences that happened in a span of several months), all my dreams and hopes were burning one by one in front of my eyes and I was helpless in putting the fire out no matter how much I tried. The more I tried to put it out the more it burned all the dreams and hopes. All the hopes I had were blacked out, by others or myself, one by one until there was none left. And after the final fire that was so huge that my body felt like an empty blackened vessel and my mind full of ashes of myself, my dreams and my reality, I felt like giving up entirely and not living anymore. Because I experienced that I was all gone/dead from inside and wanted to live no more, I tried to stop breathing and went into some trance/deep sleep for some time with lots of dreams/nightmares and came back again to life when I woke up from that deep sleep that day. And as if the incident and the experience in itself wasn't enough, in a nightmare I had in that trance state - I had glimpses of the worst things I could ever go through in this lifetime or any other. I was shocked, scared and in no sense at all after I woke up.
Although the journey of my struggling times, now resonates to me like the journey of becoming a diamond as I could relate with the fire, pressure and darkness I went through after the healing, but sometimes during the healing years I felt more like a butterfly because I would go weak and anybody could crush me or my hopeful world very easily at that time and I had to build my dreams and hope again and again and make myself stronger so that they couldn't destroy me ever again and I knew when I am done, everyone could see the beauty and appreciate the efforts and the journey as much as I could when I was going through it. I use Diamond and Butterfly here as a metaphor for a person who went through a very dark transformative journey.

I am writing this book for everyone who has gone through a very struggling time or is going through a very difficult time in the present.

Don't loose hope, even if you cannot see the light beyond...
Don't loose hope because there is light at the end of the tunnel.