Friday, 10 July 2015

KEEP GOING STRONG...

    




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Failure as I understand it: the most important ingredient in the recipe to success. The lower you fall, the higher you leap.

There was once a businessman travelling to another city in his car with his driver. On their way, suddenly the weather got bad and there was a storm. The driver suggested to stop the car and take shelter nearby. But the master said “Keep Going”. As they advanced further, the intensity of the storm increased, it was getting difficult to drive. Once again upon asking to stop the master suggested, “Keep Going”. Further ahead the conditions worsened and they found  lots of vehicles lined up against the trees nearby taking shelter, but the master still suggested, “Keep Going”. The driver followed his orders. Soon they crossed the storm and saw beautiful sunlight and clear path. Now the master suggested to stop and get out of the car. The driver got amazed to hear that. He asked the reason to stop as they had already cleared the storm. No point in stopping now. The master then said, “It makes perfect sense to stop now as  we can see those people who stopped and lined up near the tree are still stuck in the storm and we are out of it because we KEPT GOING.”

The master was none other than Mr Dhirubhai Ambani. The incident is simple, but it teaches a very important lesson. A bad weather, a bad phase or failures are never final. They too shall pass just like the good days and success but it is very important to KEEP GOING and I would say KEEP GOING STRONG.

Also if we are taking our struggles head on, their intensity would reduce. Things, people or situations affect you only till the time you let them affect you. Once you move on they cease to follow. Having read a lot of biographies I can say that all the great legends are legends because of their failures. Mr Bachhan was once considered not fit for Bollywood as he was not good looking. Had he thought that to be true, he would be still working in Kolkata. Instead, he kept going strong and the rest is the history.

There are two kinds of failures. One is, when we actually fail in our goal and the other is, when we are declared as a failure by other people. It is when our critics think we have not performed as per their expectation.

I have realized that we at times feel defeated because of certain criticism about us. After a lot of pondering, I have deduced that more than the criticism, pay attention to the critic. If the critic is worthwhile, take the feedback seriously, if not, do not let it hamper our self-esteem. People would criticize us for two major reasons, either they cannot be what we are or they want what we have. In either of the case, if we take them seriously the loss is ours. By saying this I do not mean that we should think high of ourselves, but I have certainly learnt that not everyone has to be taken seriously. It is an age old maxim: when an elephant walks, the dogs would bark. The elephant can’t stop walking. He keeps going strong.

In the end, I would say, nothing lasts forever, not even our failures and bad phases. Just KEEP GOING and soon we would be at the other side of the storm, enjoying the beautiful sun.


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