Your Greatest Enemy is YOU!
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Twenty (20) years ago, I lived a disastrous life wallowing myself in themurky depths of Heroin drug addiction and the world down under as a gangster. The day I was pushedto live in the streets, I startedtoblame my mother for leaving mewhen I was around 3 years old and began seeingher as my enemy.I alsoused to blame the friends, who were a bad influencein my life, those who offered me heroine, I considered them as my enemies.Furthermore, I started blaming the society for not beenstructured in a way to accommodate insecure people like me. youngsters who came from broken
Moreover, Isaw people who grew up as orphans yet they livedhighly productive lives. Then I also saw many youngsters living in darker places yet they did not get themselves into anything destructive. Then I started to renew my mind to grasp who my actual enemy is. I started to speak to myself. I realized the reality,if a youngster who grew up without parents is living without dangerous drugs then why am I addicted to heroin?Then my mother cannotbe blamed. Likewise, I understood that I have been fighting the wrong battle by blaming others,merely because of my inability to understand who my real “Enemy” is.
An inner diagnosis of my conscience helped me to realized that my greatest enemy is not anybody else but “ME”. Just think for a moment. Who tells you to sleep for another 30 minutes and report to work late? Is it your friends or YOU? Who told you to postpone your exam this year? Is it your mother or is it YOU? who urges you to give up the job when things are really challenging? Is it your colleagueor YOU?The “Body – Soul – Spirit” is an attached control unit which is in your custody. Your neighbor can’t change your TVchannels from his remote control. You are the one who has the authority to makedecisions regarding your own emotions and circumstances.
Therefore, your greatest enemy is not anybody else butYOU. We as a nation must strive to come out of this “blaming culture”. The more we fertilize it by blaming others the more severe the battle will be. Just like a machine, your outcome is purelybased on the processed data you input. Europeans rejecthot and spicy food because they have not continuously fed their systems with such food. Likewise, thetaste buds of Asians don’t respond to non spicy food because their systems are prone to spicy food. Therefore, you are what you feed. If you keep on feeding your soul – your emotions, way of thinking and your decisions with negativity your entire system will be susceptible to negativity.
If you are carrying a blaming attitude than an inward seeking attitude your children will also inherit the same through your DNA. Haven’t you heard the famous saying “when parents eat sour children’s teeth will get insensitive” (demawpiyo ambul kewama daruwange dath hiriwetenawa).
Therefore, make an unwavering decision today to regenerate your thinking and renew your mind by understanding that the real enemy is not outside but lying deep inside you. Just as there is a friend inside you who desires to have all the good you also need to understand that there is an enemy deep inside you who is against you.
As a practice every night Idiagnose myself to see to whom and when I have been feeding. Is it the “Enemy in Me” or the “Friend in Me”? Treatment becomes easier when the sickness is properly diagnosed. Likewise, the battle becomes victorious if the enemy is chosen right. If you’ve identified the wrong enemy you are battling the wrong fight. Overcome your biggest enemy, That’s YOU.