Does Being Extra Careful pay ??

Wish you a speedy recovery Rajib and hope you take good care of yourself by taking extra nutrition. To your question 'what would happen would happen and there is no human control'and that this is pradoxical because it precludes us from taking extra careful I ahve this to say--- Whatever has to happen will happen ;there is no doubt about it; but look at it as though you are a student.If a student appears for an examination without taking extra care to cover the syllabus and do his best saying whatever has to happen would happen , what is going to happen?. Making a sincere effort to one's capacity is our duty and this is what is prescribed in the Bhagavad Gita . You must also have read 'the Secret of work' by Swami Vivekananda. After making this effort we just leave the outcome to God. Regarding accidents the element of fatalism does arise here. Whether we make efforts or not, if it is fated for us to face an accident, then this will cause a momentary slip and that would eventually cause the accident.That is why it is called an' accident'..We can take efforts in trying to keep to the right side of the road etc as far as we can. If the accident is bound to happen , there would be someone else doing something else and this would still occur. We can only do our duty without expectations and then leave it to God. Not all careful people are free from accidents and not all careless people face them. But this does not excuse carelessness, because you may still be the cause of someone else's difficulty.

Hi Rajib, hope you are feeling better. I can see why you would ask this question and it has crossed my mind before. I’ll give you an example. I am suffering from an annoying, although not overly serious condition and its symptoms would be greatly alleviated if I took a certain medication which has cancer amongst its side effects; it is a small risk but it is there all the same. Up until now I have chosen not to increase my chances of developing the big C by not taking the medication which of course means living in continuous discomfort. MY father said to me the other day, “Just take it, if you are meant to get cancer you will regardless…” and he is right but if I did get sick I would feel a lot worse with the knowledge that it could have been prevented by me not taking the meds. What is one to do? It is the same as taking care on the road etc., if nobody took care there would be havoc and at the same time too much caution could create problems too. In my opinion it is good to be careful without overdoing it and sometimes it may be worth taking the odd risk after consideration...I think I will take the medication at a low dosage perhaps.

I think we could drive ourselves nuts but being extra careful. We need to be aware and proactive but not overly so. Life is too short. And afew mishaps make like what it is supposed to be. If we mess too much with fate we will really mess things up more than they are already.

I think your point of view of carefulness and extra carefulness is right. After all nothing is in our hands. Who knows when what will happen. So everyone should live every moment of life. You should not think how many moments are left in your life, but you should live many lives in every moment. Cheers!

Hello my friend Rajib Ji, Jhon Milton has described two contrast character in his poetry "ALLERGO & ILL-PENSESRO" (it was in 1968, when my hubby did graduation and later on keeps explaining and implementing in nhis life, so I might b ewrong to spell out). Now, one thinks to jump into occean and another fellow is worried to take shelter even underneath a tree, thinking it may fall on his head and die. So it is amount of taking risk in one's life. Remember, "WHATEVER IS TO HAPPEN, IT WILL HAPPEN, NO ONE CAN STOP IT". I go by this theory, and wahtever Almighty, does, does for one's goodness. Let's remain positive and do our duty. Soldiers have to step out at times to cover the same distance in time. May god bless You and have a great time.

Rajib- I'm so very sorry to hear you are ill! May you make a speedy recovery. I suppose at times you just have to live life. As a parent I live life in the wind so to speak. I cannot always worry that the next runny nose will cause me to become ill, I just have to deal with life as it occurs. Oh, I've had my share of colds, but I'll still go on sharing licks of icecream, a taste of the latest conncoction on my son's plate, and kisses from children with runny noses because that's my duty as mommy. When I was a new parent many moons ago with my very first child I can recall being overly sterile. After my 6th child I just take life as it occurs. It's much more enjoyable that way. Many thoughts sent your way for a quick recovery, Namaste-Anora

We should be careful with our life. who else cares for us.

I believe also that if that is destiny to happen it will happen and I got to think also even if people have extra careful on everything they do, if they destined to die at that moment it will happen. Paying extra careful is to avoid accident happen to you, but the problem is we don't know if it is our time to die. As long as we can we still have to be careful in our everydays life, so we have chances to live. I agree we don't have the control , but we still have to be careful.

I think that when I'm meant to die, I will and nothing I do will prevent it. I can take care, though, to avoid broken bones and bad food to make my life more enjoyable! So you were ill? It's boring, isn't it? I had surgery in May and laid around for weeks recovering, I never watched so much television in my life! I'm almost well now but I know how miserable it is to feel so badly that you just lay around. I'm glad you're feeling better!

Hey, Well I actually believe that it is best to be careful when you can. I think that if you are not careful in anything you do, then you might actually have to end up paying the price. So being extra careful does pay off. Make sure you have a good day, God bless and Happy Lotting!!

Wish you fully recovered friend, have enough rest still, to regain strength. I got your point but maybe taking extra care would somehow lessen the damage or bad effects would be at a lesser extent.

If the person riding the bike in this example were being truly careful he would have taken a road less traveled by speeding trucks or travelled at a time where speeding trucks were less likely to be on the road.