LET GO!

A wise man shared a funny incident with his audience. Everyone almost split their sides with laughter. Strangely he repeated the joke to the sound of restrained mirth. He kept cracking the same joke again and again till there was no laughter in the crowd. Then, with a smile he queried, ‘when you cannot laugh at the same joke over and over again, why do you keep crying over the same thing again and again?’

The above anecdote came to me through e-mail. Surely, we hold on too much to the negative incidents in our life. Even when the wound has healed, we still carry the pain. Life moves on but often we languish in travails gone by. We keep crying over the same thing again and again.

We need to draw inspiration from little children. They can laugh at the same joke again, yet they forget the unpleasant in a jiffy. But as we grow older we begin to let go of the joys and hold on to the sorrows. The past sadness is allowed to sour up the possibilities in the present and the opportunities in the tomorrows to come.

After all, it is said so well that it is futile to cry over spilt milk. It is best to let go of the past and the moments old. We need to shrug off the grip of discouragement that comes from being burdened by a bad experience. We must be better at celebrating the affirmative and overcoming the negative.

Let go of the sadness of moments old...
BE BETTER at casting a positive mould!

- Pravin K. Sabnis