The point of no return...

Greetings to you this Monday Morning!!
As you read this email, you will be probably be convinced that watching the sea and visiting the beach is my favorite activity, whenever time permits. After sharing with you my "learnings" from the sea at the Worli sea face in Mumbai, Kovalum in Trivendrum and the Marina beach in Chennai I am sharing with you my most recent encounter with the waves at a place called Kashid on the western coast. A break from the "routine", I spent the weekend at Kashid with a few colleagues. Kashid is a small village that boasts of a couple of good weekend resorts and a lovely beach.
As we headed for the beach in the morning, I checked with the local resort manager about the tide movement. "Its low tide now" He warned. "The beach here is very safe, and going in the water is OK, but be careful. Don't go in too far. The sea can be dangerous".Yes, the sea can be dangerous and we know it well. There are so many instances that we have read of people being sucked into the sea during low tide. Even mature and responsible people who know the potential danger have been unable to judiciously decide where to stop.
They are unable to identify what I am terming as the "point of no return". Going beyond the"point of no return" can be very dangerous and in many cases fatal too.While the sea provides only one such example, there is a "point of no return" in everything that is potentially harmful or is likely have a negative impact on our lives. It may not take long for an occasional smoke to become a daily routine or a monthly drink to become a weekly matter or for that matter an occasional white lie to become a usual way of avoiding a confrontation.
While most of us would agree that it is OK to experiment,we have to be careful and alert while experimenting with something that could potentially be harmful. We have to carefully watch and judiciously decide where the "point of no return" lies. In such situations, at all costs, we must avoid going beyond the "point ofno return" because even if we do get a chance to return, the journey back will be extremely difficult and very painful.
Have a great week!!!