He was young, 2 beautiful kids, Successful…. He was in love, deeply in love…. She happened to be his wife. She was overly extravert, wanted to booze… to party…. She broke his heart… Piece by piece…. His emotions finally gave way. Leaving a note to his parents, love my wife as you always have, Take care of my kids, He took his life.
I was hearing this tragic story from my mother about the demise of a long time family friends only son and I couldn’t help but feel outraged at the wife. Fair enough, I’m not in a good position to pass judgment. But what scares me the most is that this was a decent guy… a really good guy who had a reasonably good life! One single bad decision on whom to marry drove this man insane and was the end of him. This brings me back to my old post ‘’the decisions you make shape the life you live’’. Being slightly paranoid myself on finding the right person to marry someday, it scares me a great deal. People often make a decision on whom to marry without knowing the full implications of a bad decision I think.
No wonder those Indian Parents get so involved!! I Remember reading a post sometime back about a blogger, who met a Kapuwa to fix her with a good guy, can’t blame the parents can you when in today’s world there are so many blunders in this area. Just as much as a good partner will help you excel in life, a bad partner can bring you down completely. I know of a guy who lost all his savings, millions. Coz it was in a joint account, lost his kids coz he had no source of income simply since he could not go back to work with so many domestic issues at hand and got kicked out of the house and the business which they started together (love really is blind). From riches to rags this guy went in a couple of months and for many years he was bordering insanity. Women go through the same, if not much worse…..
Marriage is a decision that needs to be taken after careful thought. I remember a blogger who once recommended a book which stated some important principles which need to be aligned to make sure no major clashes occur in a marriage. I suggest everyone to take a peek. Need to trace down this post….. Like the bible says, you really are in a mess if you happened to be unequally yoked!
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Choices we make, Shape the Lives we Live
What would the outcome of World War 2 been if not for a single important decision the European power houses made in September 1938??? What if Europe never signed the Munich agreement giving Hitler access to Czechoslovakia?
I guess we will never know,
Some of history’s most fascinating human achievements, discoveries, inventions & tragedies are often pivoted around a single or a couple of insignificant choices (at the time) that people chose to make,
If you probe the world around you enough, the world itself would not fall short of empowering you with the knowledge of the importance that each day brings, a new set of choices….. to be made, enforced….. Therein lies the answer or should I say cure for the often monotonous rat race that we engage in,
To feel excited of making an obscure & mediocre decision in our day to day lives transcends the often shitty feeling that most feel,
Making choices as if History & your very life may depend on it shimmers down a fresh ray of light into what might otherwise be a quite boring reality,
Think of Bill gates, what if he never quit Harvard?
The logical, calculated, risk mitigating choice would have been to stay in College, complete his degree, be recruited by a fortune 500 company, have a nice successful career etc. How different our world would have been if not for a single choice made by a Harvard student?? unknown to Bill at that time, he had just made one of the most important decisions of the 20th century!
There lies a dreamer in all of us……
if we can tap into our inner ability & God given Vision then the fear of ‘’losing’’ itself is lost in the emotion of living out our lives knowing that one day we too may wither away, and before we do, we must give it all we have in discovering the apex of our individual potential,
To do that unfortunately in not always possible by making decisions the same old way that the world has taught us, what the world calls ‘’Risky’’, what the world calls ‘’irrational’’
Remember, the Choices you make, shapes the life you live!
Do you dare make your Choices Different today???
I guess we will never know,
Some of history’s most fascinating human achievements, discoveries, inventions & tragedies are often pivoted around a single or a couple of insignificant choices (at the time) that people chose to make,
If you probe the world around you enough, the world itself would not fall short of empowering you with the knowledge of the importance that each day brings, a new set of choices….. to be made, enforced….. Therein lies the answer or should I say cure for the often monotonous rat race that we engage in,
To feel excited of making an obscure & mediocre decision in our day to day lives transcends the often shitty feeling that most feel,
Making choices as if History & your very life may depend on it shimmers down a fresh ray of light into what might otherwise be a quite boring reality,
Think of Bill gates, what if he never quit Harvard?
The logical, calculated, risk mitigating choice would have been to stay in College, complete his degree, be recruited by a fortune 500 company, have a nice successful career etc. How different our world would have been if not for a single choice made by a Harvard student?? unknown to Bill at that time, he had just made one of the most important decisions of the 20th century!
There lies a dreamer in all of us……
if we can tap into our inner ability & God given Vision then the fear of ‘’losing’’ itself is lost in the emotion of living out our lives knowing that one day we too may wither away, and before we do, we must give it all we have in discovering the apex of our individual potential,
To do that unfortunately in not always possible by making decisions the same old way that the world has taught us, what the world calls ‘’Risky’’, what the world calls ‘’irrational’’
Remember, the Choices you make, shapes the life you live!
Do you dare make your Choices Different today???
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