Many a times we fall into the trap of living life in a linear fashion. Tying up the outcome of one event to another and building up a long chain of dependency. The ‘If this, then only that’, leads to being stuck in the same place. You find it difficult to move through anything.

Our life is made up of different domains.

Self, family, friends, work.

Even though its one life and we are one being, these domains can be quite independent as well.

Hence, its important to maintain the boundaries between these different life domains. We need to not let setbacks in one bleed to another.

You can independently, gently push your agendas in each of these domains.

A personal setback does not have to mean you skip that important event of your friend. A family argument does not necessarily have to impact your work.

This is an important skill of – compartmentalization.

Of course there can be events which are so overwhelming and their impact can cut through all areas of life. It is important to help yourself get through such difficult life events without imposing additional burdens of achievement.

You don’t need to turn into a cold individual who endlessly pushes through goals as if setbacks and failures don’t impact you.

Having a sense of compartmentalization and clear separation between different life areas in fact makes life more palatable and ‘livable’.

On the same lines, you do not have to strictly adhere to a linear life where one thing leads to another. There is no timeline or predestined order of events you need to follow.

Be aware of the freedom life gives us and be courageous to follow your own life order. You do not have to live by anyone’s definition of life and how its supposed to be lived, linearly.