Perfecting Youth

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Samkit Yuvak Mandal

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out of hands, to avoid cracks in relationship, to avoid taking decisions in anger, anxiety, stress or hurry.
In a nutshell, 10% of life is made up of what happens to you, 90% of life is decided by how you respond to it.
Here we see whether we react or respond.
⚫ Sitting on a sofa, watching a one day cricket match on television. The game has entered into an exciting zone. 8 runs required & 6 balls to go! Here goes the bowler taking a stride and in comes your mom in between you and your TV, opens the cupboard above the TV set and you lose your temper. Was it a reaction or a response?
You just miss the train by a single minute and you have to wait for ten minutes for the next train. You feel it was just because of your brother's call while you were leaving from the house in time. You recollect the past episode and get upset. You can't properly answer the question asked by any co-passenger at that moment. Is this a reaction or a response?
Size of a man is measured by the size of a thing that makes him angry. Very small things disturb us, makes us angry, we have lost our patience. Our
saturation point has gone down, and our excitement level has gone up. We blast at every odd minute. We lose our temper on every odds. Why is it so? Before going to the solution let's deal first with the cause chapter.
Three elements in our life prepare an instant reacting personality within us.
1. Fast Food
Our patience level is too less. We can't bear certain things for too long, we want the door to be opened on the first knock or bell. Our saturation point is well below the standard, prime reason behind this is our diet. Our eating habits describe our self. Root vegetables are restricted in the diet of Jainism, one of the reason is they give rise to instinctive abilities and anger. Those who eat spicy food are bound to get excited.
PERFECTING YOUTH