An empty mind is a devil's workshop!!

I was quite small when I first read this line "An empty mind is a devil's workshop"... I didn't understand what it meant then. But now I have realised how true it is. When you have something to do, be it reading, writing, or a simple household chore, you don't have much time to think things that just eat you from within. That is why I always try to busy myself in one or the other task.

I was really scared of the long free days that awaited me once my SLC exams were over. I would have nothing to do...it would be a sure waste. With strong determination, I didn't let it happen. I joined volunteer teaching at a school near my home which not only kept me busy but also blessed me with so much of memories that I happily cherish now. I also joined Keyboard class in the morning and gave home tuition to a nearby girl after school in the evening. By the time I was home, I would be dead tired. But then I had to have dinner, then say how my day went to my family, watch TV for a while and then sleep. The same routine continued until I joined college.

I left keyboard class but continued with parttime teaching and home tutoring. Truly, success followed me then.

Then there was a time when I thought I should allocate more time for studies and not engage in any work. Certainly I resigned all my jobs and gave my full time to studies. I was successful then as well. Coz I had the reading to do, most of the times and there was the TV, family and relatives things besides.

When I passed my +2, I joined a government college for my bachelor's. In the beginning I gave full time to my studies but slowly the rate decreased. I was not motivated to read, to study or do anything fruitful. I didn't get any job though I had badly wanted and tried for it. TV couldn't amuse me all day long and there were little household chores to do. I was idle and my mind was empty.

It was the time when the wildest of thoughts came to my mind. I slowly began playing the suspect-game inside myself and those things appeared so true to me that my relationships with everyone including family and friends degraded. I couldn't and didn't want to take a step toward maintaining the same good level of relationship because I always found myself true and the rest, guilty!! Yeah, the devil in me had controlled me. My mind and my whole self had turned into a devil's workshop...

Luckily it wasn't very late before I realised what was actually happening to me. I started keeping myself engaged in one or the other work. I avoided loneliness and idleness. I would either read or seek other's company. Slowly, the devil decreased the pace of its work in the workshop it had created within me and I recovered.

Today I have got a really nice jon in one of the leading women's magazines and I have been able to generate the best out of my mind. My mind is not empty and therefore, it's not the devil's workshop...

So keep yourself engaged in one or the other tasks so that the devil won't be able to build any workshop in your mind. Afterall your mind isn't so cheap that it can't be hired or used by anyone, without your permission that is...

Be busy... be the true YOU.