Bollywood actor and former Miss India Ruhi Singh, known for movies like Calendar Girls and Ishq Forever, is among the actors who are quite active and popular on social media.
In one of her latest posts, the actor wrote: “I warned you, to not lose what you can’t replace.”
Another one of her posts had the actor giving her followers an important advice about societal pressure to fit in and fake belief systems.
The actor wrote:
In life we are made to compete with people from a very young age. We keep fighting for attention, acknowledgement, achievement. This is about a fake belief system that we develop over the years as a result of that constant competition- Am I good enough?
We seek constant approval from the society, from our partners, new friendships- trying to fit in- it’s all a vicious circle. People in power constantly reject us or select us- unknowingly affecting our self esteem at the deepest levels. Especially in our industry- it’s a journey of absolute uncertainty.
Everyone always tells me how much I deserve in life and how underrated I am and how I’m so much better than so many out there. But then they hardly contribute anything to my upliftment and all they do is feel sorry for me. Ruhi you’re so damn good, so talented, blah blah blah. And then they leave. (Lol). That just makes a bigger hole in my heart and even I feel sorry for myself.
Yesterday I had an epiphany while feeling bad for myself as usual, That who is anyone to tell you if you’re good enough?
Even if you deserve all this greatness, why do You need opportunities to prove that to other people?
Why can’t You just embark in your glory and enjoy all this greatness 😄 live every moment and just be happy!
You know you’re awesome, why do you need other people’s approval!
We are blessed to be comfortable, in fact we are surviving pretty well, then why are we stressed.
Why do we need achievements or winning arguments or shining in parties or man made awards to define us? And the truth is that there is no end to this hunger and greed of acknowledgement.
Why can’t happiness motivate us instead? I think our next goal should be to be more joyous and kind than we’ve ever been before.
You know very well what You can do- and you do not actually need anyone to tell you if you’re capable or entertaining or passionate enough. You do not need constant judgements on yourself.
Please take all that power that you give others and give it to yourself. Be your own judge. And remember these moments that you’re wasting worrying are not coming back because only time has value. Nothing else.
“You are a warrior, and warriors don’t give up and they don’t backdown,” was another one of her posts.
