“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience”
Emily Dickinson
Another year that is about to end in few days and then there would entirely be a new year with new months, new days and opportunities. Wait a minute …what is the last word? OPPORTUNITIES ….. well not sure about that for each one of us as this word can only be proved NEW for only those who believe in fighting back when they are defeated, rising again when they fall and taking every NO as a direction towards a new opportunity.
Recently I was cleaning my book shelf when I found my English poetry book of school days. It was really a special feeling as I opened it and started revising all those lessons taught to me and then the turn came of my favourite poetry “TRY AGAIN” by T.H. Palmer. Don’t remember what influence I got from it when I read it first in my school but reading it now when few days for the fresh year 2013 to get started are left was entirely a different sway that I experienced. Especially by the stanza which says:
All that other folks can do,
Why, with patience, should not you?
Only keep this rule in view:
Try, try again.
“There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish”
Larry King
How true it is!!
The success lies in continues struggle keeping in mind to avoid intentions like stubbornness or envious behaviour but to accompany instincts like patience, strong will power and lots of courage to face NO’s of life and converting them into YES’s. After reading it I was in deep notion that what I did this year was just struggle without all these positive senses that I have mentioned above and that is basically the reason why I didn’t got the required results. Miscalculation I guess or I should say a typical nature that had dug its sharp, poisonous claws into our environment and had made a constant mind set which says TO QUIT from each attempt that results in rejection.
Giving one self another chance is far left behind in our society, why can’t we see our history, which tells us that all those renowned ancestors of the mankind including Mahmud Ghaznavi, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Quaide Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Fatima Jinnah, Mother Teresa and there goes a long list of these remarkable people have the same formula. Their secret was to NEVER give up before life’s hardships and to continuously move on with their firm beliefs; there lies the reason why we read them today as a benchmark before us.
I welcome this year with the reflection of these exemplary personality’s views and I pray that may God provide us all bravery to stand out for our selves, instead of quitting start moving towards a view that NO means Next Opportunity. It’s the period that is going to teach us the tactics and provide us a new direction to reach our final destiny. So do except it with a courageous smile and challenge it. As Einstein said: “I am thankful to all those who said NO to me Its Because of them I did it myself”. Joyful and blissful NEW YEAR to all of you.
erumaqua 