MISTAKES

If you haven’t made a mistake today, then you have not learnt anything today.

Mistakes are the stepping stone to success – one can never attain specialization unless one has made some mistakes. However, specialization here must not be confused with perfectionism – Perfection is only created to be witnessed by millions and attained by none. Perfection resides at horizon – the more we move forward, the farther we have to go to attain it and yet it is unattainable. Perfectionists never make mistakes and hence, no one is a perfectionist. That must not discourage us, we can always improve and there is no limit to it.

The question is which mistake is good and which is not – wise men make one kind of mistakes once and foolish men make the same mistake over and over again. Mistakes are not significantly important – what matters is the learning from mistakes. If we haven’t learnt anything from them, then we have wasted a big opportunity. Though it is believed that experience is the best teacher, it is not mandatory to gain experience to learn lessons – one can learn from others’ mistakes as well.

Atychiphobia – the persistent fear of failure. One way or the other, we all fear to fail but becoming the slave of such fears has devastating consequences. It is horrible to try and fail but it is lethal not to try because you fear to fail. One may not succeed in one go but persistent endeavor will definitely reap results. Moreover, what is it to succeed, when you have never failed? – It is just like appreciating the light without having seen the dark – indeed, the real taste of success comes after a series of failure. Imagine yourself and your friend on different sea voyages – you completed the voyage earlier and haven’t dealt with a storm but your friend took a lot more time, battling the storms of the sea – at the end, who is the best sailor? Successes provide accolades but failures provide improvements and the more the improvements, the better we are and hence, worthy for even more accolades. Conclusively, the art is how to fail and not how to succeed (obviously one is not supposed to count in deliberate failures).

MAKE A MISTAKE EVERYDAY, LEARN EVERYDAY & IMPROVE EVERYDAY.

LIVING GODS

“Know thyself as thee are Gods”

~Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

As per the scientific theory of dualism, the entire universe is consists of only two things – energy and matter. Point at anything and you will find that it is either a form of energy or a form of matter or a blend of both. As humans, we are a creature of flesh and bones and hence, we are a form of matter. The one who drives us is God – energy that is the fuel of our life. If this energy abandons us, then we are left with the only thing that we have i.e. matter – We are dead. Myriad religions give myriad explanations of death and yet they say the same thing. For instance, those who believe in the existence of soul (attma) believe that the soul abandons the body and the body is dead – this soul is intangible. This soul is nothing but the purest form of energy. The matter is dead without energy and the energy needs matter for making an impact.

We are the beings with energy – man with God residing within us. Therefore, the onus is on us to make the presence of God evident in our deeds. You may well ask about the devils, those who do bad acts despite the presence of God inside them. If you feel that something is bad, you must change it – if you think that bad man, using divine energy inside him for bad deeds, is wrong then you, suppressing divine energy inside you by being a silent watcher of the fare, are a menace.

God stays with everyone indiscriminately and wants us to de-root the evil – he is visible in our acts and we must act. We are living Gods and hence, we cannot sit and wait for God’s son to come and steer us out of our troubles, when God himself is residing inside us. Stop waiting for messiahs and be the messiah yourself. THE GREAT PERSONALITIES ARE ACTUALLY, ORDINARY PERSONALITIES WITH GREAT ACTS.

The Darkest Hour

The first glimpse of dawn breaks only after the darkest hour of night.

The irony is that the tendency to quit is at its peak, when we are just a few miles away from the first glimpse of our success. When we begin we are full of zest and zeal, our enthusiasm is addictive and our belief in our endeavour is maddening. When we walk on the path of our success, we commit to walk in darkness – we are unaware of what will follow next. Still we are ready to take risks in a hope to marry our dreams. However, when we have walked quite a distance, the darkness begins to get heavy on us and our own impatience begins to taunt us. The burden grows with every step forward and our doubts about our success begin to surface. What is more, the people around us do not believe in our endeavour as they used to. By the time we are about to reach the end, we are tired and exhausted with diminishing hope – gone is the zest, zeal and enthusiasm; the pace of time comes to a crawl – minutes seems to stretch in the blankets of days and hours in the quilts of months. It is the time, when most of us quit and press the SOS button – the most wrong moment to do it for a few more steps and we would reach our destiny.

The space is mostly dark and only stars have light – our life is a journey through the space on a mission to become a star. So, darkness is not an omen and blindness – it is a challenge, a test of our potential to become a star. So, the darker the path, the better the test and the best would be the individual coming out of it. We all start our journey in a similar way, but only some reach the illuminated path and the rest quit and stay in dark – afraid to venture in denser darkness.

The difference between a successful and unsuccessful person is not due to the lack of potential but due to adequacy of its realisation. The inadequate realisation of potential gives half or no success and half success is akin to no failure. Accepted is the fact that we are tired and cannot move forward but don’t forget that when one has completed a large part of journey, then a few more miles should not come in the way. When the first light of our success will break, its warmth will fill us with renewed enthusiasm and the tiredness will become immaterial. It is just a matter of a little more endeavour – convince yourself and move on for you will not receive praises for an incomplete journey, even your own self will not appreciate your efforts and you will feel dejected.

After a long night, the darkest hour of night is the most testing hour – stay patient, be perseverant and move on. If you can survive the darkest hour, you deserve to witness the break of dawn and the following morning in the fare of this world will be for you to enjoy.