When i was waiting for my friends yesterday, i saw a blind man struggling to find his whereabouts. I wanted to help him, but guess i was just pondering too much about the situation. The next thing i knew was that another guy came to the man's rescue. I knew that helping the blind man was the right thing to do but unknowingly, i hesitated for a while. I know how bad this might sound but i can't help it facing a similar situation like this at times.
The incidence taught me a lesson that whenever you want to do something good, you shouldn't give it any second thoughts. Just do what your heart desires and not what your mind tells you. Our mind can turn out to be our greatest enemy at times, because our mind is a cunning faculty whereas our heart is just an innocent organ that is pure, uncontaminated by the evils of this world. Most of the time, we let our mind to get the best of us. Thus, we are designed to be calculative and manipulative that we tend to overlook simple things in life like doing the right thing. We just willingly surrender to negative things to influence our decisions. Instead, if we solely let our heart to decide, then the choices we make would give us absolute satisfaction and would also free us from the guilt of not being able to do something that coincides with our conscience. As i recalled this incident, i was feeling guilty for letting my mind win. The only reassurance i could give myself is that the next time i encounter similar situations, my deeds would be guided by my heart instead.
That being said, although we often compare mind and heart in the above manner in literature normally, in real, medically speaking, our mind is the important organ involved in decision making and in control of our emotions whereas heart is just a muscular organ that pumps blood. Guess I'm just contradicting myself here :P
Sunday, December 26, 2010
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