Doing something is always better than doing nothing.

Let me begin by asking you, ”What is going on your mind?” Don’t worry, this is not a social networking site which first starts by asking you “what’s going on in your mind?” and enthused by your response, gets more inquisitive and asks questions like, “what’s happening?” and “How’s it going?”. Actually, it’s my fault. I should have begun by asking the full question, “What is going on your mind when you are doing ‘something’?”

Now, this ‘something’ can be anything, ranging from playing cricket to watching a movie, reading a book to writing one, being in a relationship and caring for your loved one to hating that one person you can’t stand, watching television to reading a newspaper, getting up early in the morning at 5:30am (for those who don’t : in winters, it’s just like : “Andheri raton me, sunsaan rahon par, ek masiha nikalta hai, jise log Shahanshah kahte hain”, you need to sing it, only then you will get the feel of it. For those who are “pretty good” singers like me, here’s the link  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGYGaadeBdw) to staying up the whole night waiting for that one phone call.

You must be thinking that you are halfway through the post, and you still don’t know what I am talking about. Now, accept it as it is, that’s my way. I like building the premise.

Enough about me and my weird ways, now just think about my question. Since I cannot get your reply immediately, let me try and answer it from my perspective. When Sachin Tendulkar is on the field, is he worried about some anchor on a news channel debating how he should have retired long ago. When a salman khan fan is watching “dabanng 2”, he doesn’t think about what the critics have got to say about the plot of the movie or lack thereof. When J.K. Rowling was writing Harry Potter and when the readers were reading it, all they were concerned about was what would happen eventually. When you are talking to your loved one after a hard day, just listening to a sweet Hello can lift your mood.

Now, just imagine, you have got nothing to do. What would your mind be full of? There’s a saying “Empty mind is a Devil’s workshop.” I think there is no empty mind. There are always some thoughts in our mind. If we are doing something, these thoughts will always be about that ‘something’. The thoughts will always be about how you can do that thing in the best possible way. But, if we are not doing anything, our mind will be full of negative thoughts about ourselves. So,

Doing something is always better than doing nothing. This is the truth which, once realized, will change our entire way of thinking. But the problem is, this truth cannot be realized by reading a post. It can happen only when you are doing nothing and you get an overall bad feeling. When this happens, the trick is to just start doing ‘something’. Trust me, it helps.

 Now, this may sound a lot like preaching. But, believe you me, the fact that you are reading this is the proof that something was done so that you are able to read this. The more important question for you is “Was reading this better than doing nothing?” and for me is “was writing this better than doing nothing?” I can only answer the latter. Yes, it was. The former is for you to answer. B+.