Rethink...

Every once in a while we need to rethink about things in our lives. Things we took for granted, thoughts we blindly accepted from others whom we thought were trustworthy at some point of time in our lives. Things we dreamed about but never could make any progress with. Things that changed our lives even though we didn’t want them to...

Then again there are the growing up things... things we believed when we were kids, teens or just stepping into the adult world. Things we were taught in school, college or at home which turned out to be wrong! Things we should have learned when adversity hit us hard.

Then again there are things we wished someone would have taught us... Like the tomboy would wish her mother taught her about the ‘womanly’ things because she wants to impress her special guy or the angry young man would wish he could control his anger because its driving the one he loves far away from him. Then there is the rich spoilt boy who lost all his money because nobody taught him how to value what he had and also to value the people in his life! Or the playboy who only wanted to have fun would realize that all the fun messed up his life because he is now HIV positive and has a lonely and painful old age ahead!

Ah! If only we stop to rethink... in time!!! Many of us would not have made that grave mistake of marrying the wrong person! What a lifesaver that rethink would have been!! Or the time when you realize that allowing your friends to fuel your passion for speed was wrong because it landed you in a hospital bed for months and caused a limb to get amputated. Painful but true, when you realize that the decision to get plastic surgery done to make your nose look thinner was mindless and cost you the moon afterwards!

How many sleepless nights fretting over things that went wrong would have been avoided by just one rethink! How many flimsy frivolous relationships people enter into for all the wrong reasons would have been avoided if there was one serious rethink. How many adulterous men and women would have corrected themselves? How many hearts wouldn’t be broken? How many children wouldn’t have to live in broken families? How many lives would have meaning and purpose?

Then just think about the loved ones who suffer and have to pay a price because someone close to them has bad habits, attitudes, and made bad choices and didn’t learn lessons from them. Like the alcoholic or drug addict who breaks and destroys things in a jiffy, bashes up people and abuses the loving relationships that sustains them. If they had to stop in time and take stock of where they were going, wouldn’t it save them and their entire family from so much loss, pain and trouble?

Let us not forget the corrupt people who cheat people of their well earned money, take bribes or take credit for what they didn’t do... If every one of them would stop and think about the wealth they amassed and realize how it is a curse and not a blessing, would they still do what they do? Do you know of anyone who was able to take the wealth he made with him once he is dead? Who takes money, property or luxuries out of this world? What is the use of duping people, killing people, doing the worst just to gain some money which will do you no good anyway but only get you curses and losses because justice finally catches up with you in the end?

Whether in personal or public life there are some things we can learn about and change if we take time to rethink. I think this world would change totally if everyone just did their part in rethinking instead of following mindless philosophies and decisions thrown on them by others. Why do you do what you do? Are you doing what you were taught, are you aping your friends or following their advice because you blindly trust them... What if you wake up one day to find they were all wrong? Rethink... listen to the voice of your conscience, get yourself right within yourself and then decide what your life should be like. Go one step further and make the necessary changes. I am sure you will never regret that!

If we rethink, our lives would certainly become better and the world would become a better place if we rethink - one person at a time. I think a rethink is long overdue for many of us... I’ve decided that I’m taking time off to do my own rethink. What about you?