Let it go

CA Anurag Sharma | Last updated: 26 October 2021

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In today's social media-driven world, we often get caught up in pointless debates about trending topics and celebrities that have no real impact on our lives. This wastes our time and energy, diverting focus from our personal goals and affecting our mental peace. Just like a skilled batsman knows which balls to leave, we too must learn to let go of issues beyond our control or concern, concentrating instead on what truly matters for our success.

We are living in a world of social media where we see trending topics and formulate our opinion on almost everything. While most of the content on social media is propaganda driven. We forget our actual goals and start arguing with strangers on issues that hardly concern us.

How are the issues like, "Virat or Dhoni who is better?"; "Which film celebrity is better?" etc. concern us? They are living their lives but we are fighting about them while these celebrities don't even know that we exist.

Let It Go: Focus on Your Goals, Not Useless Debates

We are just wasting our time and energy on forming opinions and fighting uselessly on issues that just don't matter to us. It clearly impacts our mental peace too. Just think about the logic that all these things serve?

There are certain things which need to be left as it is. You cant change it. You cant change my opinion about your favorite actor or politician neither can I so why waste each other's time and energy?

We are carrying useless excess baggage of these unnecessary things which shift our focus from our goals.

Lets take another example from cricket. Difference between a great and ordinary batsman is that great batsman knows which ball to leave. If its outside his comfort zone of strength he wont poke at it and get out. He will play the ball and score runs on the balls which are in his arc or his area of strength. That's how he becomes more successful.

Life is like that only. Just try to be calm and focus on your job in hand.

There are so many things that are going wrong around us. Can we change everything? If we keep on poking our nose at every matter then when will we work towards our goal?

Don't be a puppet of the propaganda carried on social media sites. Social media is a great tool to keep ourselves updated about various issues and learn new skills and things.

Just use it in a positive way.

Learn to let go of things that don't matter to you or your career.

FAQ :

We often get distracted by social media debates because trending topics and propaganda can lead us to form opinions and argue about issues that hardly concern us, forgetting our actual goals.

Engaging in useless arguments wastes our time and energy, shifts our focus from our goals, and negatively impacts our mental peace.

Learning to let go means recognising which things don't matter to you or your career, and choosing not to engage with them, much like a batsman avoids playing balls outside their strength.

By learning to let go of distractions and focusing on our goals, we can become more successful and maintain our mental peace.

Social media should be used as a tool to stay updated, learn new skills, and engage in positive ways, rather than getting drawn into unproductive arguments.