The net worth of the property that Chester Bennington owned was almost 30 million dollars which are almost 193 crores 38 lakhs rupees Would Chester Bennington ever choose such a dreadful path if money would have been everything on earth?? Definitely not On Twitter Chester Bennington had 8 lakhs48 thousand followers.
What Is Most Important In Life?
Would Chester ever choose such a dreadful path of fame would have been the greatest satisfaction on earth? Again definitely not. "Linkin Park" is one of the best bands in the world and Chester Bennington was its lead vocalist. Linkin park in 2000 released their first album" hybrid theory".
Over 70 million copies of that album were sold all over the world. And in 2005 RIAA made the album diamond certified. It is the greatest gift for any musician in his music carrier. Would Chester ever commit suicide if their career would have been everything in life?? And the answer is again the same "no".
5 things in various times which used to be the top priorities of our life are
1) Career
2) Relationship
3) Money
4) Fame
5) Health
In various stages of our life, anyone of these five becomes our top priority. I mean it becomes our main target or maybe I should say it becomes our main problem. But the incident of Chester Bennington's suicide has made everyone think again, that then what is the most important thing which should be the top priority in our life.
Today I will talk about that in this video in detail. But before that, I want to discuss the theory called the domino effect for those people who don't know about it. If we organize according to the increasing order of dominos where the next domino is 1.5 times bigger than the previous domino, then if the length and breadth of the first domino are 5 millimeters and 1.5 millimeters respectively, which is smaller than a tic-tac, we will find that the 29th domino of this series is as big as the Empire State Building.
If we start a chain reaction by knocking down the first domino which is as small as a ticktack followed by the 2nd domino and so on, then we can easily knock down the 29th domino which is as big as the empire state building. The behaviors of our life also follow the chain reaction of this Domino effect and it works in the exact same way irrespective of whether it is in a bad or good direction. Entry into the world of addiction happens by smoking a simple cigarette and following the chain reaction of the domino effect it ends in drug addiction.
Like this, entry into the world of exercise happens only just by doing 10 pushups a day, and following that same Domino effect, it ends in making six-pack abs. So the most important thing is to choose the first domino correctly because if the chain reaction once starts in the wrong direction then it becomes very difficult to stop it at a particular stage and come back.
It's quite easy to move in the wrong direction but coming back proves to be very difficult. So we have to find a single center point have to keep that point as our first and main domino in all situations so that we will find less or no problems in our life. That means one solution to all problems.
So now the question is then
what should that target?
Should it be a Career?
relationship?
money?
fame?
or health?
A person commits suicide when that person believes that he or she has stuck in a very painful problem that has got no other solution and that for the person only death seems to be the savior. In this universe, there cannot be such a problem that has no solution, because, no matter how big the problem is, the universe is big enough to absorb each & every problem.
Just for believing some wrong things deeply, a person chooses some dreadful ways like committing suicide. The main two reasons behind Chester's suicide were 1) childhood abasement. He was sexually abused by a senior male from the age of 7 to the age 13. And for being so skinny and different looking was also abused in school and 2) he couldn't just accept the death of his close friend Chris Cornell. His friend died by committing suicide 2 months ago.
On 20th July, It was Chris�s 53rd birthday on which Chester committed suicide. Chester was also suffering from drug addiction. He started taking drugs after the divorce of his parents. At the age of 17, when he again started living with his mother, he was successful to come out of his drug addiction. But from the year2011, he once again started taking drugs. According to his wife, after the death of his close friend Chris, Chester was suffering from severe depression.
So the main two factors behind the suicide of Chester were relationship and mental health. As we can see, again mental health is dependent on a relationship. These two things finally together meet to the one thing, that is peace of mind. This is the smallest Domino, which should be our top priority all the time. You may be a very successful person, you may do a job in one of the world's top companies, your salary may be pretty high but if the working environment of the company is very bad, filled with politics and corruption, then this can severely affect your peace of mind. Then a desire to leave all these things and run into some other place will keep coming into your mind.
So in this condition will you be able to lead a healthy and prosperous life? Work stress will affect your relationships. And with all of these, your health condition will also fall day by day. On the other hand, just think that you have a very good family where everybody loves each other, cares for each other. But you are the only income source of your family with no permanent job and an insufficient amount of money with which you can't even fulfill the basic needs of your family members. So in this condition will you be able to lead a happy life? No, you cannot.
So, everything is important in its place. But everything has a common center point that's peace of mind. If that center point remains ok, then everything others automatically become ok but if the center point gets not ok, then everything others also become not ok. So our life's first and main target should be to maintain our peace of mind and we should always take our actions based on this. There is a very famous quote by someone anonymous,
"There is no greater wealth in this world than the peace of mind" and I hope by giving the example of Chester Bennington I have made you understand a little bit why it is so.