Can the mind be changed?

He has always been consistent in making resolutions at start of the year... then it went to 1st of every month, then to a week - Monday and finally ceased on tomorrow...

I don’t remember how many time he promised me, of not drinking from tomorrow? The determination started when the sun god showed up, and faded with his exit! Well gone are those good old days, one day he finally came to term, liquor was passing affair and he was seeing refuge!

All I thought everyday - was there any need for him to drink every night? and honestly then and even today he says NO!
Was he ashamed of sin? On asking him he always said No. He never felt bad about drinking?

The need wasn't for body but for mind... All it did was helped him forget bitter experience and forgive those who made it possible, it also gave him unmatched courage to avoid cowards and finally the bottle refrained him from potential relations which he could have had it with opposite. He drank and drank badly cause to avoid possible conflicts or at times relations.. (not that relations are bad) But he wasn't keen on having stop gap arrangements and was so self-centric that never wished to do anything in half hearted manner.

Drinking is not bad, for those who drink for pleasure, but can have devastating effects if one avails just to run away from reality. It simply takes the drunker on different plane where every thing around looks rosy, secured and by the moment one is out of hangovers, reality struck.... O no - REALITY HAUNTS!

Days went by and so were months,
Years came and were gone,
The guy who once had determination was showing up signs of vulnerability.. This was to end somewhere, but "how" was the "big Q"

Until one day he realized -

Today’s reality was to be tomorrow’s past,
Tomorrow was yet to come, what all mattered was today!

The problem was in his mind, as he contempleted on every word, action of others! Others who had, kind of dislike for him - for his attitude, but were unable to express there true opinion!

All it took him was to change his outlook; the mind finally persuaded to the very fact once which he conceived but had long forgotten!


Siddharth -
"You could fix your own problems and not someone else’s Problem"