Thinking and Acting and Feeling and all that....

I think, I think and I end up thinking so much that I end up with a head ache.... But in the process of all that thinking I’ve realized one very important thing and that is that, all that thinking never got me anywhere.... The moral of the story my friends, is to stop thinking beyond the point of necessity and to plunge oneself into action... That is the trait that one must inculcate...

The fact of the matter is that most of us come from families that are not so well endowed and time is a luxury we do not really enjoy.... In saying so, I mean that we have little time to think and event lesser time to act. To act is imperative for us, if not to make it BIG, at least for us to stay afloat in the sea of humanity where there will be tides and waves of competition that our peers will form a part of.....

In having written about this I must also make it a point to point out the importance of emotions and of being human in our pursuits…. We may want big cars and palatial homes but do we really need them? Are these the things that we really yearn for in our lives? Are those the real goals behind our enormous and often inhuman efforts? Aren’t we more really looking for that special someone, that li’l piece of joy that we find when a kid laughs, that smile we find ourselves smiling when we see a puppy, that nice feeling that we get in our gut when we see a baby smile? Aren’t they the real treasures we are looking for? We may not want to admit it but the answer to these and a lot many more such questions is “YES”… No matter how hardened or “evil” a man or woman we might be the real answer to that question is a definite and resounding yes.

We all have our dark sides, and I’d like to quote Abraham Lincoln - "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." The quote doesn’t tell us that we can be as evil as we want because the more the evil we are the more virtues we have. No! It tells us that it is alright for us to have our faults. That’s what makes us human. And that being human we can make an effort to right the wrongs of our past and that’s what distinguishes us from the rest of the creatures of this planet. The ability to repent, to want to make up for our wrongs and to be able to find ways to do exactly that, that’s what it really means to be human. We all want to make our lives grand and be successful and we’d like to think that we’d do it at any cost, but “any cost” is not “really any cost”. If it were so then we’d have more criminals on this planet than good people.

We must learn to subscribe to the good nature of the human mind. In Hindu mythology there is a story of an incident where the Demons declared war on the Gods and all of the Gods fled in fear. It is said they hid in the hearts of the human beings. And we today go out in search of the Gods when all we need to do is look inside ourselves. The point being that we all have “Good” in ourselves it is just that some of us expose it more than some others might. All said and done we are in the end the same – a heart, a mind and a soul. So when we act let’s not act blindly, like has been already stated, enough thought must be applied (just enough) before we act so as to keep not only our emotional balance and our “humanness” intact but also to make sure that we do not hurt someone else. Nonetheless, ACT we must!