when bold career moves and tough personal decision are taken,with which attitude one should approach the trials and turbulations that follow?
My answer is four lines from a hindi poem:
जब नाव जल में छोड़ दी
तूफ़ान में ही मोड़ दी
दे दी चुनौती सिंधु को
फिर धार क्या मझधार क्या
Add to this ,attitude towards the fate of your action:
हार में या जीत में।
किंचित नही भयभीत मैं।
कर्तव्य पथ पर जो मिला।
ये भी सही ,वो भी सही।
In1912, Thorpe was invited to participate in the Olympics, which were held in Stockholm. Before the second day of decathlon, Jim Thorpe's shoes were stolen. Hastily, he found two different shoes lying in a garbage can to compete with. (One of them was too big, so he wore an extra sock to make it fit.) Thorpe won the high jump, then won the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.6 seconds.
He won the gold medal in both the pentathlon and decathlon. After his performance, King Gustav V of Sweden donned him “the world’s greatest athlete.”
In what turned out to be one of the great sports injustices in history, the International Olympic Committee stripped Jim Thorpe of his gold medals, citing that his participation in semi-pro baseball disqualified his amateur status. The two gold medals from the 1912 Olympic Games that Jim Thorpe was forced to return almost 70 years ago after he admitted he had once been paid to play baseball were restored posthumously on Oct 13,1982. ...{ Not only were the medals taken away, but his triumphs were expunged from the official Olympic record books.
Thanks to the immeasurable hard work by Bob and his wife, Dr. Florence Ridlon, his medals were finally restored to Thorpe’s children in 1983, proving that the IOC illegally and unjustly rescinded Thorpe’s medals.
Don't let injusitice of stolen shoes stop you from running the race of your life.
Even if you are not recognized till your last breath and you remain unsung let not bitterness be your epitaph.
Maybe not today,not tomorrow ,but eventually,you will get your right place in history.
Never sell yourself short.And if you are good at something ,never do it for free.
Reminds me of a fav.story of mine.
A man went to a doctor and said his leg hurts a lot.The doctor examined him thoroughly and then took a small orthopaedic hammer.
He fixed a point on the knee and hit him with the hammer lightly there.
Behold! the pain was gone!
The patient asked how much the fee was.
The doctor said -a thousand bucks!
The patient was incredulous."A thousand for hitting a hammer on the knee?!"
The doctor replied:"10 bucks for the hammer hit.990 bucks for knowing where to hit and how hard.!!"
So.Skill costs.The big pockets specially must realize that.Dont be a Shylock.But never sell yourself short.
have heard far too many excuses and justifications for not being able to EXCEL.
Too busy.
Too tired.
Too involved.
Job compulsions and pressures.
Family issues.
Bad luck
Destiny
...
Add yours
I have a simpler explanation.
"WE ARE KEPT AWAY FROM OUR GOALS,NOT BY OBSTACLES,BUT BY A CLEAR PATH TO A LESSER GOAL."
Stop blaming your circumstances.You are not dead.
You love your comfort zone.Hence further effort seems impossible.
Congratulate yourself.Why,u ask?
Because this world is full of average people.You have successfully added your name to the list.
"Greatness is rare because it's not attempted enough."
Do you know that lions only succeed in a quarter of their hunting attempts — which means they fail in 75% of their attempts and succeed in only 25% of them.
Despite this small percentage shared by most predators, they don't despair in their pursuit and hunting attempts.
The main reason for this is not because of hunger as some might think but it is the understanding of the “Law of Wasted Efforts” that have been instinctively built into animals, a law in which nature is governed.
Half of the eggs of fishes are eaten... half of the baby bears die before puberty... most of the world's rains fall in oceans... and most of the seeds of trees are eaten by birds.
Scientists have found that animals, trees, and other forces of nature are more receptive to the law of "wasted efforts".
Only humans think that the lack of success in a few attempts is failure... but the truth is that: we only fail when we "stop trying"
Success is not to have a life free of pitfalls and falls... but success is to walk over your mistakes and go beyond every stage where your efforts were wasted looking forward to the next stage.
If there is a word that summarizes this world, it will simply be: continue all over again.
Ack:PressReader
Are men and women equal?
Are men and women created equal?
Should men and women be treated equal?
Quick answer :yes.yes.yes
Is it?
A woman in scheme of nature is CREATOR.
A man in scheme of nature is PROTECTOR.
In modern context ,both are PROVIDERS.
Please save angry howls of protest and think through this
Sociology,physiology,psychology....Take any parameter.
Are they equal?
We take EQUALITY to be an emotive and ethical issue.A humane issue.For some a legal issue as well.
Is it?
Or is it a issue of NATURE(KUDRAT)?Issue of FACT?
What is the scheme of nature?
Or parameters ought to be different?
Are they equal?
DO THEY HAVE TO BE EQUAL?
Can they be equal?
Can they just not be DIFFERENT?
Is humanity not richer due to this?
To us,it's an issue of justice and morality in the sense that if they are not equal ,one has to be superior and one inferior.That's where the prejudice of thought and error of defined and chosen criteria lies.The elected narrative compels us to choose a winner in each and every interactional situation.But gender equality in strictest sense is an undefinable parameter because it does not submit to objective comparison by definition.
If the issue is merely equality of opportunity or equality before law or harassment etc,it's an issue of legislation or of law and order.In that sense issue is of justice for all,irrespective of gender.
Else its a debate without end.
Remember the legend of hermaphrodite.
I do.
This is yet another modern elixir impressed
upon us by the "enlightened"life coaches.But it fails for most of
us.Why?
Could it be that the technique works in
professional life but in personal life the constant events of dejection
and hurt overwhelm mindfulness?
Another reason I find this wonderfully
attractive concept failing is because a human being is an organic whole.And
memory (of past)and anticipation (of future)don't let you remain what in indian
philosophy is called "स्थितप्रज्ञ"
It's a concept encompassing but exceeding
mindfulness.Two words are here Sthit स्थित and
pragya प्रज्ञ । ... When combining both words
Sthitpragya means — A man who is firm in judgement .A man who is contended ,
Determined , Steady .Focused .
In Bhagvad Gita,the greatest book ever
written,in CHAPTER 2 VERSE 54 it is written that:
अर्जुन उवाच |
स्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा समाधिस्थस्य केशव |
स्थितधी: किं प्रभाषेत किमासीत व्रजेत किम् ||
Arjun said : O Keshav, what is the disposition
of one who is situated in divine consciousness? How does an enlightened person
talk? How does he sit? How does he walk?
Part of 16 Q's asked by Arjuna
The exact translation of the word is ONE WITH
STEADY INTELLECT.
So key is to teach people to be stithpragya and
not merely mindful.
