LIFE AS WE TAKE IT!!

Life is bliss when you don’t have to do anything and everything just falls on your lap!
But it never ends up that way, does it? Maybe in the case of a millionaire’s son it might be true! But most of us aren’t that lucky, are we? We live in a world (let us stick to smaller distance because I haven’t been far enough to say!) where most of us are let us say not born with a silver platter. So I think it is safe to say that we all have to work for what we want.
Thus, here we are, not very blessed souls, but yet most of us manage to take things pretty lightly. In fact we human souls take everything around us for granted. God gave us land, (assuming we forget that land already existed and we actually evolved into it) so that we can use it to make our lives a little easier. But I think we want things easier than it is! God provided us land to live on! And we would rather throw around things on it because it is just too difficult to keep it organized and to keep it clean! Isn’t it much simpler to throw stuff that you don’t need right where you are standing rather than finding the darn dustbin? God brought us into the world to live and let others live, but doesn’t it become difficult for us to do things thinking not just of ourselves but also of the people around us. It is probably easy to steal money (assuming one is an expert at it) and it is also very easy to take what others deserve. But is it that easy to work for what you need and want. If we do that we would actually deserve what we get. So if we actually work hard enough and not lay back, things might not go easy, but at the end of it I am sure anyone would feel the self satisfaction. Things might look difficult from where we stand, but if we start with something, it would become exhilarating. It might be very difficult to achieve something and we might get the urge to quit at many instances, but the feeling we get when we would achieve it, would probably be out of the world.
A couple of days ago, I thought about Mr. Tenzing and Sir Hillary. They were the ones who first reached the top of the Mount Everest, by the way. The wonder, for me was the amount of strength, both mental and physical, they would have had. The thought made me wonder as to why they would even want to climb up a mountain in the first place. That was a great example of passion. Now let us look at some live examples.
There are two people I don’t want to fail to mention. One is Mr. Azim Premji. He is a well known entrepreneur and the founder of Wipro. A lot of people might not know this, but he had to leave his education in Stanford mid-way as he had to return to India because of his father’s death. His father was a wealthy business man. And, after his death, Mr. Premji had to join his father’s business. He joined his father’s oil company, “Wipro” with the vision to develop an organization on a foundation of values. He developed it into a well known software company today, through the times of the massive computer revolution. He saw that there was a wide range of opportunities in the field of Information Technology and took advantage of it (isn’t that smart?). He is now the 3rd richest man in India and the 36th richest in the world. That, I thought was a really good example of determination (and good business, of course).
The second person is Dr. Shah Faisal. He is one guy who personally inspired me.
He is a Kashmiri. He lost his father in a gunshot about 10 years ago. His mother was left alone with three children to take care of. Dr. Faisal was determined even at a young age. He topped his 10th examination just to join the Srinagar Medical College. He graduated as a doctor, but didn’t just stop there. He wanted to serve the state and so, he wrote the IAS examination and topped even in that. Today, he is an active member of RTI movement in Jammu and Kashmir. He is a stroke of brilliance and a really good orator. He can truly inspire you with his words. And to imagine, he is only 29. This shows how a person’s interest and determination can do so much in their life. It shows there’s no limit to what you want to do, irrespective of age and situations.
People look at a person, they say, he/she is born to shine. I think they aren’t born to do anything. Everything they do, they learn to do it, they do it because they want to do it, and they are strong enough in mind to finish what they started at. So, at the end of the day (I hope you aren’t thinking, finally!) it isn’t that you can’t do something, anyone can do anything but they just need to be determined and need to want it hard enough and should be strong enough not to give up and reach the end of it. (But that’s just meJ ).