WHAT NEXT - அடுத்தென்ன - आगे क्या
FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:
WHAT
NEXT
அடுத்தென்ன
आगे क्या
Even a well-designed action planned in advance may
sometimes fail. Never mind; it’s part of the game. You have to think ‘what next’
or ‘what is the next best’, as there are more lessons to be learnt and acted
upon from the past failures rather than from the past successes. Think that a failure
is nothing but an unfinished success, or a success on the anvil.
There is no use in unduly dwelling on a negative result in
despair despite best efforts or due to inadvertence that includes a mistake which happened even unintentionally,
or a botch. It is a negative reaction to a negative happening, for which you are
responsible or not. It is saner to think in terms of ‘what next' and 'how best' (next time). Get
on with your life or work more methodically with much more concentration and love
to turn it fail-safe and around your way. There is a saying, ‘Don’t brood on the
past, but don’t completely forget it either, and see that you don’t repeat the
mistake due to which it backfired earlier.’
Despair, desolation, despondency, and depression, which
are negative emotions, give us no positive lessons, postures, or inputs, leading us nowhere.
Painful and unfair things happen to anyone, sometimes
for no fault of theirs, but there is no use brooding over it. Of course, you
would have yearned for success, but it kicked you off. But still, you'd better use them
to learn and grow.
Don’t waste your time looking back, as, after all, you
are not a person to retract but one to go ahead and advance. Yes, every
next level of your life will demand a ‘different you’.
A failure even after a best performance with pursuance,
persistence, and perseverance is much grander than never having a striving
good enough to be called a failure.
Worrying is like sitting on a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere.
Belial would say, “People shouldn’t brood over their
past; some things are best left forgotten.”
Let me conclude with a couple of extraneous observations:
Don’t bother for being left alone in the battlefield. Even fighting alone or ploughing a lonely furrow is itself a credit and achievement.
Don’t love to be loved; love to love.
R.SAMPATH
8.5.2025
Yes you taught me this important lesson when i was working with you. Not only would you not brood, you never took anyone to task over the wrong done, but would simy say 'what next'. This did give us confidence to do our best. Excellent article. I really cherish this one. Hats off to you ji.
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