Thoughts are valuable. This column is specially meant for ‘sharing your thoughts’. Very often a thought crosses our mind; and, we are cocksure that it was a wonderful thought that could be helpful to many persons, if not to the whole world. When we feel like looking at it back, it is not there. So soon we have lost the thought and we feel bad about it.

Sometimes we cherish a thought and are very certain that it would be valuable to the people. But we would like to work on it, develop it and present it beautifully; but we never get time to do it and the idea goes away from our minds once for all.

Thoughts are like seeds. In Plant Kingdom the seeds spread fast through air or water or even with the help of insects and birds. Seeds are not meant for remaining where they appeared in the first instance. The ideal environmental support for it is waiting somewhere else; sometimes in a very distant place! Then, why we should arrest our thoughts and refrain from expressing them because of our own mental inhibitions?

If only we share our thoughts, which we consider good and useful, with others without holding it back, they may reach the person who is waiting to build on it.

Dynamic Youth readers may share their thoughts, at whatever stage they are, here in this column. Let us remember, even for great empires, the seed has been only a good thought expressed in time and acted upon with passion and commitment.

Thought for this month – February 2010

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

This means that being happy or unhappy is simply a matter of choice. The external world can make us unhappy only when we attach importance to its impact and allow it to work on us! Why at all we should surrender before the external world, when I happen to be a dynamic being capable of governing myself? When the external world tries to hurt me, can’t I belittle it with contempt and turn my attention to ‘within’?

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