Focus Makes!

 Today is the Padva. As the myth lets us know, the batu-avatar "Vamana" of Vishnu cut to size the mighty king. Why did it happen? I suppose, that was because King Bali's  focus shifted. For him, it was not enough to be a good king much loved by his citizenry. Much more important was to control the whole world, and still more important for him was his jealousy, his envy, his desire to belittle those who had not harmed him in any way.

Indeed that always is the case. The moment our focus shifts, the moment we waver from our life goals, our values, given our desire to destroy some one else, we dig a pit for ourselves, in which we fall, and thus fail, in the final analysis, ourselves. 

Focus matters in relationships, too. If in a marriage, for example, the desire  to control the partner becomes much more dominant, rather than the togetherness as a couple, as a pair, the marriage is finished, and what becomes much more important is the contest by the second to belittle, to humiliate, to finish off  the other. Actually in such a process, the belittler is belittled, is finished off.

In other words, focus makes, while the lack thereof, mars, in each and every field, be it sports, be it academics, be it creativity. Hence on this auspicious day, let us pledge to ourselves to never allow our focus to shift. Thus can we predict,  and over-rid(e), all sorts of tsunamis, personal and/or professional.

Pratima @focus forms fecundity