Recently, I noted a film dialogue, “ Insaan ki ek dukti rag uski har taakat se badi hoti hai”. This means that a person’s single weakness is stronger than all his strengths! A powerful dialogue and so true!!! Think about it. Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, our strength is defined by our vulnerabilities, not our strong points. Not all the preparation in the world or intelligence can help you with any exam if you have an indecipherable handwriting that the examiner cannot figure out! Here your handwriting rather than your intelligence and hard work decide your future.
Similarly, you may have worked out a superb project with the deep research and smart inputs, but if your timelines are not worked out and you cross the deadline, it is those couple of hours delay, that become the decisive factor! Similarly you may be a great professional but your loose tongue at an inappropriate moment may put paid to rest of your capabilities. You will have plenty of people around you who are not just willing but eager to exploit your negative potential as displayed through that one weak link, that one vulnerability! There is a category of people wheedle info after putting you at ease and assuring you they are totally with you. Most of us have had a brush or several, with a office pseudo empathizer who always emerges as soon as he smells your moment of insecurity or misery. He always knows, for he is always on the lookout. And sure enough, there he appears with oodles of sympathy and a smile, pumping you subtly for information. He gives you subtle hints and encourages you to speak up. In a moment of weakness, you are most prone to let go and spill it all out. Satisfies he runs back where he came from and uses the information to his advantage before you realize! Your one weak moment could have done you a lifetime of harm.
Consider the power of weakness! Even the power of a relationship it is rightly said, lies with the one who cares less…..never with the one who cares more and so has more at stake! So the weaker your love, the more powerful you are to mould the relationship and your partner as and how you wish to!
It is indeed the moments of weakness and weak points that we need to guard….it’s when you are most comfortable that you should be most guarded too.
We are born with strengths that we can at best hone and understand, but an equally important task is to understand our weakness and work hard upon these.
. For these, our greatest weaknesses, if guarded and worked upon, have the potential of becoming our greatest strengths! Remember the great Achilles was only as strong as his weak heel! Had that not been known, who could have killed him? Had it not been known that Bheemshma would lay down his weapons if faced by a woman and Shikandi not been used for the purpose, who could have defeated the mighty warrior? Had it not been known that Abhimanyu could pierce the chakravyuha but not find his way back, how could that innocent son of Arjuna been killed by the Kaurvas?
Author : Anjali Rai, Lucknow