Recently I was filling up some self-evaluation forms and while blabbering about how good I am as a person, I just lifted my pen for a minute and pondered over one of the qualities I had mentioned about myself. I had claimed to be very honest in whatever I do…and mind it..i am not at all refuting that attribute of mine! But come to think of it, how honest we really are in our day to day lives? Every New Year we take resolutions, every other month we break them and then we make new ones! “I would read a novel every week”, “I would try to be less worked up this year” etc etc etc. But how much are we able to abide by it? 1 month? 1 week? 1 day?
Actually we never slack in the beginning of the resolution. In the initial phase, we are full of energy and enthusiasm and are strongly determined to make a difference this time. Gradually, as we start achieving our sub-goals, it is at this time when we become complacent. It seems like the good and fiendish side of ours always stays at conflicts. Like in the fitness regime, initially everyone is happily eating salads and avoiding junk food entirely. Then, as soon as he or she starts shedding a few pounds, then the counter attack begins. Slowly they start slipping on diet plans once a month, then once a week, and before they know it, they are happily chewing away those extra pounds and back to normal selves.
Well it’s actually not completely our fault! If everyone behaved in the ideal way, lived the ideal life, always wore the right clothes, spoke the right words, “ate the right food”..then life would become very boring..no? It would be a world the way it was before Pandora opened the forbidden box. People would lose the actual driving factor that keeps them going – the desire to achieve a goal, the excitement when they work towards that goal. I know this is no excuse from slipping away from what you plan, but then this is the typical way in which anyone’s psychology works! So next time if you feel you are slipping up, just put yourself together, pick up the loose ends and viola!! There you go!
Actually we never slack in the beginning of the resolution. In the initial phase, we are full of energy and enthusiasm and are strongly determined to make a difference this time. Gradually, as we start achieving our sub-goals, it is at this time when we become complacent. It seems like the good and fiendish side of ours always stays at conflicts. Like in the fitness regime, initially everyone is happily eating salads and avoiding junk food entirely. Then, as soon as he or she starts shedding a few pounds, then the counter attack begins. Slowly they start slipping on diet plans once a month, then once a week, and before they know it, they are happily chewing away those extra pounds and back to normal selves.
Well it’s actually not completely our fault! If everyone behaved in the ideal way, lived the ideal life, always wore the right clothes, spoke the right words, “ate the right food”..then life would become very boring..no? It would be a world the way it was before Pandora opened the forbidden box. People would lose the actual driving factor that keeps them going – the desire to achieve a goal, the excitement when they work towards that goal. I know this is no excuse from slipping away from what you plan, but then this is the typical way in which anyone’s psychology works! So next time if you feel you are slipping up, just put yourself together, pick up the loose ends and viola!! There you go!
