Thought for the day eighteen

We need to endure what cannot be cured

This is the best way to turn a disadvantage into an advantage. Every day we face numerous inconveniences, ailments, irritations and accidents that are beyond our control. We must learn to endure them cheerfully thinking “God will it so, so be it”. God’s logic is beyond our comprehension. Believe it and you will gain in patience, in inner strength, in will power.

We will be in a hurry to reach the office. An important meeting is scheduled to take place. The vehicle does not start immediately. We do all circuses to start the vehicle. Finally it starts. We try to hurry. The vehicle in the front is touched by you. Mistake is ours. But still we argue saying why the front guy should apply brakes?  Poor fellow, he would have applied to avoid hitting the vehicle which is in front of him! And that vehicle would have avoided hitting a small kid on a bicycle by applying brakes suddenly.

What a chain reaction!

In the bargain, we would have lost the precious traveling time and won’t reach on time for the important meeting.

Here, what is your mistake? You can’t blame the situation. A kid’s life was at stake. Each one has tried his best to save the kid and their vehicles. Except us, we went overboard and hit the vehicle in the front.

Well, this is something which is unavoidable. We need to get adjusted to the situation. This situation can’t be cured. So, we need to endure and move on. If we carry a grudge and continue thinking about it, we end up becoming crazy and moody. This won’t do. The colleagues won’t keep quiet. They would tease us. We lose temper and utter something which we would regret almost immediately and for a lifetime. Is this a necessity?

No!

Not any day!

We need to be tense just because we underwent some torture. It was something which was uncalled for but has happened. We need to accept this and start the work which we are supposed to do. This is the right method.

On the other hand if we behave very differently and become rude, most of our colleagues would desert us or they would just be artificially polite with us.

There is an American proverb, if you can’t lick them, join them. Without misunderstanding (!) words let us analyze. If you can’t fight against a system, better become the part of the system is the meaning carried by the proverb.

Seriously, it is not right to be accepting what we don’t like. The saying what can’t be cured, must be endured must have been made by someone who would have totally harassed by the system when that person fought against injustice and the person failed.

So, suffer and tolerate all the injustice which crosses your life. You wouldn’t have undergone all these tortures if you had accepted the system’s default condition by default!

But this is not at all right. We need to get into the root of a system and see whether we can remove the unwanted thing.

If we can’t do it alone, we have to have patience to bring together the like-minded people. This would strengthen the group’s convictions. The group can fight the injustice in a better and methodical way. When it is one person, even the opponent feels strong. But when a group fights, there would be a seed of doubt in the mind of the injustice. This makes the fighting team stronger.

A single finger can be broken, but not a hand showing a fist. It takes more strength to break a team.

What can’t be cured, need not be endured. We can fight and get the cancerous unwanted growth out of system.