Give it a thought..

At times people let time take decisions for them rather than they taking decisions for themselves. There can be many factors which influence this. It can be because they don’t have the proper mental stamina to take the situation into their hands, either they are preoccupied with more important things in life , are influenced by other sources , are compelled in doing so or are too scared in thinking of the future. It can so happen that in lines of thinking of the future, they miss the basic that life is individualistic in the end. No matter whom u live with , whom you care for , whom you succumb to or whom you compromise for, at the death bed, no one will be with you other than your true inner self.

Imagine this. You know you would die in a few minutes. You have no time left in this world. You can’t change whatever you’ve done in the past. Its no time to regret. You want to take something with you, some person , something valuable , which you feel you cant live without. But you know it isn’t possible. And no one is as stupid to leave their lives for you. Imagine your legs losing weight. Imagine your mind going into darkness. Imagine yourself being sucked into an unknown hollowness where you have nothing but only you. Lifeless. Scary thought right ?? That’s how it would be. And when you feel you will regret something at such a time, why do it at the first place ? Many questions to answer at that time. Many for which you might not have an answer that would satisfy you to close your eyes peacefully.

And to avoid such situations , if a person can take a few minutes off thinking about this before taking important decisions in life, I’m sure we would have very less troubled mortals. Agreed that thoughts, mind-set, morals , feelings, society, community , race, religion, situation , belief, principles , persons, individualism, care, satisfaction, spontaneity all such issues come into foray while a decision is ought to be taken. But just a thought about the future, just a peek into what would happen, most importantly to themselves, after a few years and how the decision would take toll on them mentally , would do wonders . Also avoids many situations which we had talked about in the previous para.

In my opinion, a person should question himself what he wants, how dearly he wants, how he can cope with others for the decision he has taken, whether he would be really satisfied with it, whether he would repent,retaliate,revert about it at any point of time in his life, and whether he would be at peace with it in the journey. Every person is responsible for himself, for the way his life is, for the decisions he take, for the way he is in the past, right now, in the near future and at the end. I guess the attitude, want to achieve something is the driving force behind decisions. Influence is inevitable. But what is life if you are living it on the order of others ? If you feel life will go on, then this may not make minimum sense. But if you are of the opinion that life is under your control and you have to manage things that go or don’t go in your way, this is just basic. I feel this very thing separates graduates from IITans, Businessmen from the Successful ones, Actors from Stars.

Give it a thought. Unfortunately, life doesn’t give a second chance.

-Snehith.