A friend of mine once sent me this message - Make waves your inspiration, not because they rise and fall, but because after each fall, they rise again.
While I would not like to undermine the strength and motivation this adage carries, I’d like to point out the fact that we don’t need to go that far to find such inspiration. The rises and falls in our own past lives can give us the strength to believe that deep inside we have the ability to rise again and face the poisoned arrows this life keeps throwing at us.
This strength comes from the single fact that this is just one life we live and we want no other option that to continue living it and living it to the fullest.
When I look back at my school days and the plans I had for the next 10-12 years of my life - a comfortable job with the least pressure, a fairy tale marriage, a dream home, a long trip round the world. Today, those years have passed by and when I look back at my life, fortunately or unfortunately, some things have worked out the way I planned, some things worked out better and some things just didn’t work out. But the important thing is that I still wake up each morning, thanking God for this wonderful, amazing life and I wouldn’t have wished it to have worked out any other way.
If we compare our lives to a piano with the black keys (depicting sorrows or failures) dominating the white keys (depicting joys or achievements), each of us should be proud to have emerged a survivor in this battle field. No matter how many black keys, how many sharp notes, we are still standing, still loving each and every moment spent with our family, still enjoying a good laugh with friends, still getting amazed and awed at the wonders of nature - in short - still living life with a gusto equal to that of a young child with an immaculate past.
So why not make our own lives an inspiration for our future, why not take strength from the ability we ourselves have shown in the past to emerge victorious and smiling from each and every hollow we have fallen into. Why turn to inspirational books or sayings or movies or preaching, when in ourselves lies the very source of strength we need for the future.
Like the saying in the blockbuster Bollywood film - Om Shanti Om – “Whatever a man really wants in his life, in the end he ultimately gets it and till then, its not - THE END”
Monday, February 18, 2008
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8 comments:
Well done. You definately have to write more , whenever it flows out. I enjoyed reading this. My fav parts were -1. "some things have worked out the way I planned, some things worked out better and some things just didn't work out." 2. The comparison with the piano was good too and 3. The saying in the end.
Oswald.
I’d say , that this is one good piece of article ever written by u, n yes it truly is a fact that the source or our strength lies in our very own selves. Well done on this one..
Wow.... You actually wrote this???
Very nice Rochu.
Keep it up. You should take up writing for a profession.
Dear Rochu...
I liked your chapter 1.... ts true that the answer to all our problems lie within us. we need to just sit down and reflect on our lives. our past contains treasures which can teach us so much... but very often we are blinded with the hurt feelings, if only we transcended those feeling our live would be so much more meaningful.
we need tough moments in our lives it is those that make us mature in our approach towards situations and helps us to lead others. we need to thank god for them.
Keep on writing your thoughts, if not for all at least just for yourself.... they are a part of you.
Prayers and best wishes,
Francis sj
Dear Rochelle,
That was nice ...Thank you!..I guess if each of us reflected on our lives we would surely find inspiration to last a lifetime. The trouble lies in finding the time to reflect!
too much maan .jus too much .i'm just too choked up with emotions {sob sob}
Hey Rochelle! A very nice set of reflections and it doesn't seem like your first attempt at writing either coz you've made such lovely comparisons and associations. I particularly liked the one about the piano. A very beautiful thought. More than anything else, this piece captures the essence of my philosophy in life as well, to keep smiling no matter what becoz no matter how hard life may be, no matter how difficult the situations you encounter, having a positive attitude is all one needs to get thru' the toughest situations in life
You dreamed of a fairytale marriage as far back as when u were in school?
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