Achilles heels

Everyone has a pair of heels. Achilles had too. Unfortunate for him that his heels where not touched or treated by the mystical secret of invincibility. And eventually led him to his downfall.

It has come to general custom to refer such weakness in person as Achilles heels. A single weakness in spite of thorough all round strength. It is also used to indicate the single point failure possibilities in engineering systems.

But here we are primarily talking about such attributes in real people.

Every one of us would one time or other come across such situations. Everything might seem to go well except for one damn thing. And that one thing will keep haunting.

It can be an unfulfilled desire. Or it can be a guilt. Or it can be health issue. Or can it be a career position. It can be anything that haunts the mind.

It also becoming super encompassing. It can also completely engulf all aspects of a person including his body, mind, emotions and all his daily activities, domestic life and everything.

Sometimes, those things would wear out and naturally fade away. Life situations taking forcefully us in different directions may make us gradually move out such prickings. Or sometimes, one's own wilful efforts to change their life directions can ease us. But whatever we do, at the fundamental level, we know that its not gone unless it is specifically treated to. We can just pretend that it is not there.

But how to overcome that? Apparently, there is no way to overcome it. Eventually it will eat us out. It will continue to exist until it is specifically treated to removed. But, apparently, it is also said that, even though it may continue to trouble us, it is totally the choice of the individual to get troubled or not.

In other words, the particular weakness can make us vulnerable and prone to get affected. But actually getting affected or not is completely within our hands. At least that is what is being spread across as highest wisdom, about which we will be talking often in other posts.

It is said that the first and foremost thing is to accept the existence of the weakness, at least within ourselves if not to anyone else. Rest let us see in other related posts.