Think Before You Act

How many times have you been told to keep a watch on your actions? How many times have you been told to limit your dreams? And how many times have you actually limited your aims only because someone, who himself couldn’t dare enough, told you to do so?

‘Too much’ is a phrase often used by people who themselves are ‘too less’. In every phase of your life, at every step, people will ask you to think before you act. Your well wishers telling you so is still okay. But watch out when you are told to think about something not in terms of what is best for you but to think about a thing or a deed to make sure that whatever you plan to do or aim to achieve appeases to the minds of the most sections of the society.

‘Think before you act’, a common phrase we were taught in junior school and so many lessons had this as the moral of the story. It is a good term to use for people who base important decisions on their impulses, or whose actions are driven merely by an emotional surge. But only if this phrase was only used for the impulsive, unthoughtful ones. Now, this junior school moral has turned to a toxic advice given randomly to anyone by any random person and it dangerously tends to drive a person to think so much into their actions, that the fear of disappointing someone or hurting someone unintentionally generally tempts a person to hold back their plans.

So, if there comes even the tiniest opportunity of an unparalleled happiness in your life, do not, for the sake of yourself, even think about the multiple consequences you would have to face or the numerous people you will have to lose or the million efforts of yours that will get wasted if you fail. Never, ever give up or back off from something only because someone, that is not you and knows nothing about you, told to limit yourself. There is nothing wrong in dreaming beyond your capacity, nothing wrong in wanting everything at once and absolutely nothing wrong in taking all possible steps to make your dreams come true.

Just trust your heart with the ever-consuming happiness that is coming your way and with all your being, lose yourself in it. You can achieve everything together and as long as you do not disappoint yourself, you do not need to worry about disappointing others.