Baggage of the past

There’s a popular saying in Hindi, “ Jab jaago tabhi savera.” It’s a very powerful message because the thought provides us with a chance to reset our lives. 

As we live our life and cover a sizeable distance, we get ridden with the guilt of mistakes that we committed, opportunities the we missed and risks that we either took needlessly or chose not to take and play safe! And this guilt can really sag our spirits and become a bottleneck or a hurdle in the way of our onward journey. The fact is that as goes another popular saying, “ Aadmi galtiyon ka putla hai”, loosely translatable as “ to err is human” and in the course of performing our duties, we do make mistakes in personal as well as professional capacity. These mistakes are attributable to the judgment that we used at that juncture based on the facts available and maturity of mind that we had! On the hindsight these mistakes may appear to be very gross and outright stupid, but in real life there’s no Time Machine that could take us back to that particular period to relive the moment and act as per our state of mind today! 

It’s never too late to make a fresh beginning provided we shed the baggage of our “ not so rosy past” and live the present with full gusto and enthusiasm. Let’s forget the job offer we didn’t accept, the relationship we shouldn’t have entered into, the assignment that we refused, the bad property deal we went ahead with et al and reset our lives as tomorrow is a new day to be lived like there’s no tomorrow. – forget yesterday!