The Infinite Mind

8 Half Body or Culture of Inbuilt Talent NOTICE PERIOD IS A TIME where one is on the verge of leaving a company and moving on to the next job role either with the next job proposal in hand or even without it. The stress increases exponentially when a person does not have a job proposal in hand. The very same was the scenario for Ansh, who has survived the dry months just applying and looking for a job role, but has been unsuccessful so far, for more than 5 months now. A situation arose when he wanted to give up and contemplated suicide as he was unable to see any other way out. A loan EMI was staring at him; taken for his sister’s wedding. The loan funded the groom’s demand for a car. Keeping his sister’s happiness in mind, Ansh took the loan. He HAS to pay the EMI. With funds low and savings on the verge of depletion, his worry increases and the need for a job is increasing multifold. Ansh cannot invest any money on himself to update his skills. His parents cannot help him as he comes from a poor background. A person with such background doesn’t usually have a huge circle of friends who can support him financially and of course he cannot think of another loan. What to do now? Every door appears closed; he spends his day sitting on a corner of his bed, waiting for a job, which can help him uplift his mood. Thinking about the next meal has became very his thought process as he has to be thrifty in spending money. He has stopped socialising; he knows if he does, he will end up spending precious money. The only option seemed to be suicide. Fortunately, this option was terminated after sometime. When hard times hit a person, the first instinct is not to give in, to fight out the hard times. The person waits for some time, consoling oneself that times will change and good times will be back, and so waits for the better times; surely the unfruitful phase of life will pass. But the very same person finds the hanging rope more convenient, when this unfruitful phase of life drags longer than expected and consoling oneself is no longer working. I do remember the case of a beautiful young high school girl, admitted to a hospital due to breast cancer. One day the doctor broke the news to her parents and they faced the hardest time of their lives; the doctor told the parents that the only solution for the illness was to carry out a double mastectomy. The mother could not handle the news and became miserable thinking about the future of the girl without breasts. The parents peeped at the girl through the window, wondering what her reaction would be when they told to her what was going to happen next. How would she live her life? The long years ahead. The parents sat near the girl and told her the treatment planned, with tears all over the place. When the news was shared with her, her world nearly ended as she could not imagine her life without her breasts. Thinking about the future, who would marry her and what would her life be? And how would she become a mother? This was like taking away the gift of nature from her and her very identity as a female, which would affect the role she would play later in her life, as a mother in the future. The only option she could see was suicide to end her misery and her parents’ misery too. Suicide appeared to be the perfect escape from the people’s loose talk. People face various adverse situations in life but the train of life for some people seems to stop at this easier station ‘suicide.’ During adverse times, everyone’s attention automatically gets focused on the negative aspects in their life. They forget one very significant aspect: The universal power with humans and the direction of their attention too. If someone pays attention to the negative aspect in life, then this aspect expands in one’s life. If someone directs attention to the positive aspect in life, their life expands with positive energy. A person overlooks the positive aspect he still has in his life and jumps directly to suicide. People see what was lost in a moment and stay with it as their awareness level is low. They don’t see the talents they have and how they can make use of them. We need to inculcate a culture of inbuilt talents among people. So that during the tough phases of life, even without a job, one can earn through his or her skills and lead a happy life rather than thinking of suicide. A person who has lost his legs in a battle when he stepped on a land mine, can still live life to the fullest and contribute to society. He might not walk on the battle ground any more, but with proper training could easily help in the information technology section of the army. As long as the brain is active, you can still earn. You could write a book or a novel and later it could be made into a movie! You could be a consultant in your area of expertise. Alternately you could learn new skills as learning has no age limit. You could learn a new language and teach students and earn your livelihood and even take up translation projects. The list of choices is exhaustive. But it is because of a weak human mind that we give up easily. Unless your brain is dead and there is no breath in your body, you are still the richest person on the earth.