Listening to your Conscience..

Many a times, we hear our elders saying, "Don't go against your conscience, 'coz it will land you in trouble". But most of the time, we do actually go against it and end up making a lot of mistakes. And then we say proudly, "I learnt from my mistake". But why make a mistake and learn, when our conscience clearly tells us that it is a mistake already.

Being human, we tend to be curious towards what is denied to us. So, when our conscience says, "You shouldn't be doing this", we seldom pay attention and go on to do it anyway. This sometimes results in huge blunders or rarely accidental success.

But first lets know, What is CONSCIENCE?
It is a set of instinctual principles that is inherent to all sane human beings. Some might call it as MORAL sense and some might acknowledge it as the Speech-of-Soul. Whatever be it, it is an inner voice, which calls out when we are doing something unacceptable and points out a better way. 

People say that "LOVE is BLIND". In fact, its not true. People in love often over rule their conscience. For example, a guy falls in love with a happily married woman. She has no necessity to return his feelings, but out of pure lust, she reciprocates. The guy knows that, its just pure lust that she has for him, but he deludes himself that she is in love with him. And when finally, she breaks up with him, he blames and begrudges her. They guy stepped forward in spite of knowing the sham, making a mistake and learning from it, instead of simply listening to his conscience.

Someone would say, its the way of life. But is it? You make a mistake, and you regret it. You live with that regret and still bluff yourself saying you don't. Instead, you can simply choose to listen to your conscience and make a beautiful life.

Same thing happens, with education, in relationships, in crisis, in day-to-day life. And still, we choose not to listen to our conscience. And we all know, that we are the ones to blame, even though we square our shoulders and say in defense, "To err is human and to forgive is divine". Well, lets hope our conscience forgives us, lest we live with a guilty conscience.


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