The Boomerang

Once during assembly, the Principal talked about the Boomerang when she addressed the students.

The Boomerang

Whether you realize it or not, you are throwing the boomerang today. As you know, a boomerang is an angular club you toss away from you that eventually returns to you.

In the game of life, you throw the boomerang daily, in the form of actions and behaviors that you send out into the world, and which return to you at some later date — often multiplied on the rebound.

As I listened to her, I was trying to put it into context. Indeed, we throw many boomerangs daily, not just positive ones but also negative ones. Before we ask ourselves what boomerangs we want to receive, perhaps we can ask ourselves what boomerangs we have been throwing. Do we throw negative boomerangs at each other? If so, what happens?

It will certainly affect relationship. Our behaviour has an impact on others, as how we treat people will affect how they respond back to us. Many of the boomerangs that we receive are the same ones that we have thrown earlier.

As human beings, we sometimes have the eye for an eye type of mentality. Recall the times when you threw negative boomerangs at each other. Didn't it create more unpleasant situations?

We must be aware of the boomerangs that we throw, so as to build quality relationship. Understand yourself, know your own emotion, identify your own behaviour. "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." (Gandhi)