Destruction, though an intimidating word but it rhymes, with and is antonym of the word construction. For several days I was thinking to update my blog with a good post, but lack of constructive and creative thoughts was restricting me. On today’s morning, when I was analyzing and inspecting the construction work going on my house I came with a very awkward yet interesting analogy between the construction of building and our own mind.
Have you ever felt broken inside, with a reason or without any reason?? Mood swings without any reason at regular intervals, getting depressed again and again and having just negative approach for everything. Sitting alone in your friend circle or avoiding contact with them pretending that you are lost somewhere else. With every new day there seemed no new beginning, and sunset seemed more prominent than sunrise. The things which used to give us happiness, sounds illogical and scary and we just wanted to run away from them. We all have definitely gone through a very bizarre period in our life where life lacks something, what we don’t know? But the essence of enjoyment and enthusiasm is lost and we just flail without any control on our mind and mood.
But for some new construction or building of a new monument, destruction is the first part. You can’t create something new on an existing thing. Even for a slight modification something has to be destruct first. The same concept is applied on thoughts also. In order to clear your perspective and make way for new thoughts, the old thoughts and prejudices has to be destructed. You have to erase or wipe incorrect pages of your life book even tear them apart so that a fresh page can be created to write a new story.
Now, the mode of destruction and the initial phase of construction are not very comfortable. Comparing it with construction of a building, first the view is damaged and there are broken pieces everywhere. Same in case of our mind, our old mindset and opinions are damaged and we have to change them. Everything in the home is scattered and nothing remains at its right place, same with us as our mood and thoughts are scattered and even our mind is not at its right place.
We have to adjust our sleeping and eating-place, similarly we have to adjust a lot when the destruction phase is running in our mind. When something is broken, the sounds are very annoying and cumbersome. When our heart is broken, the beautiful memories of happy moments of past are also very painful and disturbing. Soon we became frustrated blaming our decision for this construction phase and remembering how good our building used to look and how comfortable it was in past? But we know that we are helpless and we can never have our old building back.
Slowly, we recover and adjust to this construction phase. We start plotting for our new and better monument. We tear the old pages and start afresh, filling colors in the sketchbook of dreams. An optimistic person may be opting a mistake again, but its human nature. We can’t remain depressed and sad for long, either by our own willpower to rise again or for the sake of not reflecting a weak image and creating emotional drama everywhere. In the last phase of our construction phase, we tap our back or thank our destiny that after a short uncomfortable period (which never looks short when we are passing through it) the future is better and brings more happiness than what we thought in past this unfulfilled present will.
