Hello 👋, My Name is Restless.

They say restlessness is a blessing, not a curse 🤬

Riki Adi Setiawan
2 min readFeb 8, 2019

The word itself already made everyone feeling unease, stress, even the worst thing that happened from every aspect of our mind, our thought, and thinking are somehow feed the monster 👾 itself.

To some people, restless means stop! 🛑, a sign that is something wasn’t right with whatever we are trying to do with our evolving journey.

It creeps you in the midst of your sleep 😴 and unconsciously discourages you to believe that you are making a bad decision or trying to break your pattern that you just start. It isn’t drugs-related, at least for me drugs doesn’t give the restless a room to grow, it should give you one of the highest forms 🌈 of pleasure, so no, that’s not the problem.

So what is it? is it the life-changing cycle that makes you restless, or fear 😱 of losing the people you love? the “should-rules” society and modern-culture made? you know, the “rules” that you “should” follow to live a happy life, get a steady job, a good income and get praised, the should and should not, and that’s not even the cause that makes me restless.

I suddenly realized there’s something magical 🦄 about this.

Restless is not the enemy, restless is the sign, a truly good sign that life’s challenging me to evolve, it does not try to ruin my life. in fact restlessness is the one that reminds me that I am in my new reality, new emotion, new expectation that something a lot to deal with, its truly one of the blessings that persuade me to do more to the unknown, the restlessness.

Restlessness is a blessing, not a curse.

And Hello 👋 , my name is Restless.

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