Journey of Self Empowerment

“It’s time to get up buddy” –the voice echoed. Get up, before it’s too late” ...it continued

The voice continued till finally, Rohit opened his eyes to figure out from where was the voice coming?

Still rubbing his eyes to have a better vision all he could see was a figure standing in front of him. Due to the bright light behind the figure, he was unable to see the face of the figure, yet there was something peculiar about the figure.

Wait a minute – Am I in the hospital? He thought to himself. Am I dead and in heaven? He almost froze at this thought.

Relax buddy, the figure told him you are not in heaven!!!

No sooner did he realise that he was not in his room, his wife was not next to her and his astonishment, the entire room was (unfurnished) except the bed and a big chair lying opposite to the bed. The natural bright light coming from the various windows filled the room.

Till this time, Rohit was all alert sitting on the bed, his eyes fixed on the figure that placed himself in the big chair lying opposite to the bed.

Who are you? Where I am? What is this place? Am I kidnapped? Rohit finally managed to bombard these questions to the figure.

Post Rohit’s question a long silence followed, slowly the light behind the stranger was fading away and finally, he managed to notice that the figure seated in the chair was in a pair of blue jeans and black colour collar t-shirt (his favourite combo), and was he was almost about to collapse when he saw the stranger’s face.

No, that’s not possible- he was sweating now he tried to get up from the bed and run away however he felt as if he was tied to the bed by the invisible knot. The more he tried to rid of the felt the knot getting tighter.

Rohit opened his mouth to shout out for help, yet his voice got lost in the silence of the room.

“Looks like your talk time is over,” the figure said with a smile on his face. So now the stage is all mine I guess and then the figure quoting the poem “ I choose to”.

The figure stood up from the chair, came near to Rohit he said “Ya, I know that was one impressive quote oh, pardon me, where are my manners, let me introduce myself.

Hi, I am Rohit!!!!!!

 Rohit was shaking with fear with his eyes fixed on Rohit standing in front of him, he neither had a choice to speak or run away so the only option left was to hear him out.

“Well, my dear friend” the other Rohit started I understand so many questions must be running in your mind well you need to hang on to this because this is going to take a while!!!!

He continued “You can quit at any time you wish to, however, if you do you’ll lose out more than you can ever achieve” choice is yours, take your decision wisely.

Rohit on the bed was listening to the figure carefully now and to his surprise, he was getting calmer and was feeling knots getting loosened up too.

Good decision Rohit, the figure said.

 As you must have realised till now I am pretty much part of you, am here to have some pep talk with you.

I understand you are a successful Motivational speaker and have been invited to a college seminar to talk to students about Self Empowerment, am here to quiz you!!!!

Excuse me Mr, you mean to say you scared the hell out of me ...to have a pep talk with me for my seminar?

Ya Rohit sorry for the dramatic entry, am not a fan of this, however, I ran out of options.

The duplicate Rohit then asked our speaker Rohit “What can I do to empower myself” or “How can I have a better life”. There was a short pause.

So students...I guess our so-called ghost friend has thrown us some good questions, let’s see how best we can address this.

With this voice at the back, the curtains were drawn down and finally, the audience saw Rohit Saxena, the successful Motivational speaker in the centre of the stage with the spotlight on him.

Rohit Saxena was always known for his amazing motivational sessions and this skit was just another feather in his cap. He was welcome with a huge applaud by the students.

Well as we all know our ghost friend was referring to actually ‘Self Empowerment’ which is to realize that your empowerment resides within you, its is the positive expression of power, as it relates to self-actualisation and self-fulfilment in short when you have the remote control of your happiness in your hand rather than giving it to someone else!!!!

Please raise your hands if you have ever asked the same questions to yourself

To no surprise, almost everyone raised their hands, and Rohit smiled because he knew half battle is won, if you know which weapons to use.

Let’s discover together who could be the possible ways of achieving ‘Self Empowerment” 

The entire audience actively participated in pouring their thoughts; however, in the end, everyone had one big question on their mind: How to execute it.

Rohit’s session was a success, needless to mention the audience did realize that “Your path of Self Empowerment starts from within!!!

As Rohit came out of the session, he heard some voice coming from behind -‘Wow, what an amazing session, you answered my question very well. Rohit turned back and saw the same figure standing in front of him and now this time our speaker asked the figure What is your way of “Self Empowerment” Rohit?