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Seeking Permission

Early in your life, you learned to follow rules and discovered that there are circumstances where you must obtain permission to do the things that you want to do. This begins at home when you need your parent’s permissions to stay up past midnight, to go out with your friends, and so on. However, now you are all grown up and you don’t really need to get permission for many things. But occasionally you will still need to seek permission for something. You may need permission to arrive late for school or work or to participate in extracurricular activities.  Your life changes once you reach adulthood. However, you’re still surrounded by situations where you need to seek permission and get approval to do the things you want. During your university or college years, you will need approval to enroll in your chosen path of study. At the workplace, you will need other people’s approval to leave early, arrive late, or to be absent.   Stop Asking for Permission  The permission-seeking processes exists also in people’s lives who need licensing. In such situations, you need to seek formal approval to engage in activities like getting married, driving your own car, owning a dog, building a garden shed, and so on. The world the surrounds you has made you accustomed to seeking permissions for activities that made it difficult to recognizing the occasions that do not need the approval of others. In fact, there are times when outside consent is not needed. People need to find ways to give themselves the permission they need to do something.  This can be the case when we use you age to give yourself permission to do certain things or activities. People also use the number of faults in their current workplace to give themselves consent to leave and look for new employment that interests them more. People also use their family obligations or the demands of their work to give themselves permission to turn down invitations for events that they don’t care to attend.  It is highly important that you recognize the situations that you don’t need outside approval to do. Go ahead and feel free to proceed. It is doing things you want without seeking permission from others that lifts your confidence and increases your enjoyment of life.  You do not need permission to live the life you dream of. In reality, you are the only one who can give approval to your life anyways. You are responsible for the majority of things that have had happened in your life. If you complain about your current job, who do you think applied for it? If you want to quit your job, who do you think will decide to do it? There are great doors and opportunities out there waiting for you, but only if you choose to take them. You can blame your family obligations, workloads, and other things in your life for not reaching your goals, but it’s actually you that’s getting in your way.  You have been taught to submit yourself to living an ordinary life while hiding your true self. But, living this way will not allow you to enjoy life. You only live once, so you need to do what you want and what you think is right for you. It’s time to wake up and live the way you want.  There are two ways which you can live life. You can spend the rest of your life complaining about how the world seems to be against you, about your job, about how things could have been better if you have spent more time on it or more money.  Or, you can start taking responsibility for your life and begin to actually start living. What if you quit your job and try something different or what if you start your own business instead of dealing with your boss that sucks? Everything is up to you. It’s your life, so you need to have fun living it. After all, the only permission that you need is from yourself.