Friday, December 12, 2008

Control your emotions

A man was afraid of his shadow and he was afraid of it every day and since he wanted to get away from it, this particular day he ran as fast as he could. The shadow kept up with him. He went faster but the more he increased his speed, the faster the shadow went, keeping up with him. When he stopped, the shadow was there. It stayed right by his side. Finally, he came to the conclusion that he hadn’t been running fast enough so he went all out this time but, unfortunately for him, it was too much for his body and he dropped dead of a heart attack.

He did not realize that if he had stood in one spot long enough, the shadow would have disappeared because of the sun – it would be underneath him when the sun was directly overhead.

What you realize here is he was trying to run away from his own emotion and was not in control of his emotions. Hence he was unable to think. Even in times of disparity, you need to be stronger, keep yourself together and not give into the situation. Else the situation will be in control and not you. You have to tell yourself that you are the one in control, which you will start believing soon, and eventually you will be in control of your emotions and in turn of the situation in hand.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Yeah its really very true we keep on running from emotions ... giving them the charge of lead forgetting that emotions build in ourself so one should be in the charge....
good one....