"Mom, it's like a lucky draw...one of them will hit the bull's eye..."
...I'd always say jokingly when anyone of us would visit the doctor for a routine ailment (fever/stomach ache etc) and we'd get colorful pills (while some doctors have moved to prescriptions, many still prefer giving their own pills). It was always fascinating to see tablets and capsules of vivid colors - orange, green, pink, shades of blue (am sure a lady might have done a better job of describing the colors, for me the world of colors can be classified into the basic colors mostly) handed over with the routine instructions - one dose each after breakfast, lunch & dinner. I'd tell mom jokingly that the doctor often gave the same 4-5 pills everytime we went for any small ailment and that one of them would end up finding the cause and cure us of it.
There'd be days when I'd collect the pills from the doc but either stop prematurely or not take them at all... most of the times the body would fight the ailment/virus/bacteria on its own and the pills would go wasted.
Recently I found a similar application of the concept around behaviors. When we get told (diagnosis/pills) that a certain behavior/habit (ailment) needs to change, we often either go in denial or at times accept it but do not take corrective measures. Over a period of time then self realization strikes and we end up taking the corrective measures that were needed much earlier. This is where the mind does its job the way the body does (during ailments) its job to rectify issues identified in its own way and in its own time.
So have you spotted any colorful pills coming your way (on request or otherwise) recently? If yes, did you take them in the right spirit? If you did not take them, are you atleast checking if your mind is helping you rectify what needs rectification - else you may soon get subjected to something more unpleasant/uncomfortable than swallowing the colorful pills....
P.S: I have great respect for doctors and their colorful pills. The idea of this post was just to draw an analogy to behaviors with some light humour around the pills.
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