Know the chariot of your life journey

Abstract

Assume that you have a water pump fitted to your bore well. The pump suddenly goes out of order and it is a big task restoring it back to action. Every time it goes out of order you go looking for a mechanic. The mechanic comes and attends to the pump and in a few minutes it is restored to action. As the frequency of this intervention increases it becomes cumbersome for you to restore the pump as the mechanic does not come in time to attend to it. At this stage there is a feeling that if only you have the know?how you would have attended to the repair. More importantly, you would have found out ways of minimizing such situations in the future. We have a very similar situation in our life also. There are numerous occasions in our life when we lose our “cool”. We shout at people, treat people who we normally respect with little or no respect, hurt feelings of people unwittingly in an angry encounter and destroy moods and relationships albeit temporarily. In most of these occasions we go through a post?event phase of repentance. This is a normal behavior for many of us. However, what is abnormal is our inability to take charge of the situation and work towards reaching a state where we will not fall into this trap once again. Some of us even have a genuine desire to achieve this but we do not have the “know-how” for this................