To feel distanced from one’s own self is a tough feeling to cope up with. This is a realization that the thoughts and feelings one goes through is not part of a process that he or she is able to own up.

Such a situation arises when one is forced into making oneself believe something that his or her innermost self is unable to resonate with. At times, forced by circumstances, one moves towards something that is not recognized by his inner self. Sometiems, a person is left without options and he or she is forced to find valid reasons for the deviation that his life takes. It is at this moment that one feels distanced from oneself.

What can we do? Should we give up the journey? Should we conclude that the new path we intend to place in the list of possibilities is absolutely wrong? No, both are extreme positions and dangerous at that. We need to go deep into ourselves and, in the silence of our hearts, discover what is the innermost passion that we always carried within is before we began to feel estranged from our self. We need to eveluate everything that we have taken upon ourself, based on this one single element of fire we always carried within us.
This process should be done with an open mind, in the absence of all the elements that forces in one direction or another. It is a discovery of our self and only in such a discovery can we find a solution to the feeling of estrangement from our own self.