DOUBTS HELP US ATTAIN WISDOM AND TAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS

Why do we doubt? Because we are not sure of ourselves or others; or we have had a bad experience? Or, is it that we doubt most of the time because of lack of understanding? Any of these may put us in a situation that leaves us with no option but to doubt.

The word ‘doubt’ is usually taken in a negative sense. And we always doubt a doubtful person. Even then there is nothing wrong in having doubts because doubts force us to make sure that we don’t take a wrong step. It is in having an obsession with doubt that spells our undoing, because doubting too much could mean we are always suspicious and negative. In other words, we become weak in our resolve and unable to take decisions. As a result, our journey of life to seek a purposeful existence gets lost. Nothing can be a greater loss.

It is good to have reasonable doubts. Galileo Galilee had said, “Doubt is the father of invention.”

That means all good and great things had doubts and queries in their origination. Even wisdom and truth have doubts at their base.

But let us be on a constant watch that we don’t become victims of doubts because, as William Shakespeare says, “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” (Inner Voice comprises contributions from our readers.) The views expressed are personal

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