I am Possible

I am going to visit past – some hundred years back. Would you like to accompany me?

1800: A world so simple by today’s standard. A middle class guy thinks of landing on moon and that is only possible in his dreams – it is impossible to cover a journey to moon. Another girl wishes to talk to his sister, married to a man in different village, she should either visit her or write a letter and show a little patience – instant talking is impossible. A son has to send money to his ailing mother and the things are left to the mercy of post office – instant money transfer is impossible. A farmer awaits the rainfall to irrigate his land – it is impossible to irrigate otherwise.

I think that this is the world of impossibilities – spaceships, phones, internet, money transfers, banking, modern farming, nuclear energy, www – everything seems impossible.

Well friend, we can have a good laugh here as we have the knowledge that whatever these beings, living in 1800, believe to be impossible is indeed possible for their future generations. Whoever had first used the word – IMPOSSIBLE – must have been amused to discover the possibilities attached it. Anything under the sun is possible – the necessary condition is to work in right direction – to believe in its possibilities and no power can stop the utmost power of our own mind.

We would have still been living in a world similar to that of 1800 but thanks to the great inventors like Charles Babbage, Tim Berners-Lee and many more, who believed in the possibilities. Belief in possibilities is the first and very important step towards the creation and inventions that turn impossibilities into possibilities. Some ultra sensible beings would call it madness but in a way we all are mad and it definitely requires a great degree of madness to tread in the dark with only a faith in our capabilities. All the great men had been seriously insane in past, are insane at present and will be insane in future. After all, you have to first lose your sanity to make the world lose its inertia. I do not much about being great but I am not ashamed to admit that I am an insane myself...

“It is always impossible unless it is done” If we spend your whole life clinging to impossibility and going by the sanity of this world – we would never have a better future. For betterment, we have to baptize IMPOSSIBLE into I AM POSSIBLE and the wonders will happen... 

PROCRASTINATION

There exists always a tomorrow but alas! It does not belong to you.

We are lazy beings and one of our favourite jobs is to postpone the things. ‘I will do it tomorrow’ ‘I will do this one day in future’ ‘I will enjoy my life when I will be a little richer and older’ ‘I am waiting for the right time to do it’ Well, if you also cling to such future commitments, then you are a part of more than half of the population. We spend our life waiting for that one day, for that right time when we will complete all the pending things in our life – be it enjoying the life or starting a new venture.

Ask yourself a question, “Does time wait for you or for any right person?” Time never stops and it is indifferent to all the ordeals that befall on us and on others. Then, why do we wait for the right time? What can be the most right time but this very second, which you choose to lose by keeping faith on a future date? Does your body wait for the right time to breathe? No. Then, why do you wait for the right time to live? Running in the race of life, you keep surviving but cease living. You do not need warm pockets to do what you want to do. All you need is jigaar (a big heart) for it – a will to take risk and a certain level of determination.

‘Okay, tomorrow onwards, I will definitely start completing all the pending things’ you must be wondering and for now, you would choose to sleep over it. Every today comes with a tomorrow attached to it. So, which tomorrow are you talking about – the one that will never convert into today? What is wrong with today? What is wrong with now? You are born free, then why do you choose to spend your life as a slave of a routine?

To start living, one must stop procrastinating. It is indeed scary to do break away from your routine life but it is horrible to have regrets before you die. There is no right time but now and no right day but today. Now and today are all you have, the rest are mere delusions to keep you under the slavery of routine.

THE VVIP

Once, a teacher instructed the class to write a paragraph on the very very important person in one’s life in homework. Next day, he signed the homework to find a good description of important persons in respective pupils’ lives –mother, sister, father, brother, friends, prime minister, teacher, president and many more. As the teacher returned the copies, he asked, “Has none of you seen mirror all your life?” The class was puzzled by the question, “We look into the mirror everyday of our life,” replied one pupil. “Then, don’t you recognize the person standing behind it?” reposed the teacher. “It shows our reflection and we do recognize ourselves,” was the reply. “If this is so, then why not the person standing behind the mirror is the VVIP in your life?” The class fell silent. “Who is going to help you the most, when you are in trouble?” the teacher began “With whom do you live every second of your life? Who is the only one to be with you even when you wish to be left alone and who stays even when you are left alone to give the tests and exams of your life – academic or otherwise? Men may come and men may go but you stay with yourself till the end of your journey...”

It is without a doubt that your family members, friends, the PM and the President of your country are very important persons in your life but when it comes to The VVIP, it is always you. The only person, who can guarantee your success, despite all your failures is you, yourself. People may come to guide you, motivate you and assist you but the person, who will act exclusively for you, is the one standing behind the mirror.

The self-importance must not be confused with conceit or vanity. The self-importance is a necessity for confidence and development. If you do not value your own self, which is permanent till your death, then how would you ever value others, who stay for shorter time spans in your life? If you have no value for and a minimal pride in your abilities, then how can you expect the world to value you and your talent?

It is always good to value others and the best to value yourself. So, go and have a meeting with the VVIP, standing behind the mirror and tell yourself that you are something – you are a wonder, a unique personality, a power and a proud owner of your own self. Don’t live like a journalist, chasing the VIPs, live like a VVIP and let the journalist chase you...

LUCK & YOU

Recalling an old story...

There was once an Akashvani (A prediction from the heaven) that there will be no rainfall in the village. The farmers were horrified but knowing at the same time that it will be fruitless to work on their farms, they went back home. However, one farmer remained and kept tilling his farm. Surprised by his acts, the Indra (the rain god) appeared and asked him if he hadn’t heard the Akashvani. “I did hear it,” replied the farmer. “Then, why are you still tilling your land?” asked Indra. “Because I am afraid that if I cease cultivating for the next twenty years, then I may forget how to cultivate,” said the farmer. This made Indra wonder that if he ceased causing rainfall for next twenty years, then he may also forget how to cause rainfall. Hence, he disappeared and within seconds, there was a shower of rain.

Your luck is like the rain for a farmer, you cannot control it. Whenever we look at and hear about a successful person, we often have one thing to say that we all strive but only few are lucky enough to succeed. Why don’t we look at it as more effort on the part of successful person and less effort on part of others? Let us believe that a factor called luck exists and impacts our chances for success but let me ask you one thing, ‘Can you really determine being lucky or unlucky, in general? Or today being lucky or unlucky day for you?’ No you cannot. Nobody can.

Luck is like a random game of cards. When you play cards, you are never sure of what cards you will have. Similarly, you can never be sure whether the luck is at your side while you are putting your hands in a job. Nobody is eternally lucky and nobody is ever unlucky. It is all random.

Still, we can control something and that is our efforts and our hopes. We can strive for our aims like the farmer or lest we may forget how to achieve. The biggest achievement is not that we achieve what we had aim for but the biggest achievement is knowing that you are unlucky in a job and still trying to achieve that goal in a hope that one day, you will definitely achieve.

We cannot control our luck but we must keep striving and one day, even the worst of luck will turn good and we will achieve. It is not necessary to be born with a silver spoon but it is of utmost important that you must always strive for that silver spoon...