About Transforming and Moving on...
"Echoes fade, memories die. Autumn frosts have slain July."
-Linda Goodman
Life, as I've experienced it often comprises metaphorphosis. There is never really an end..there are just new beginings. A new moment awaits, a bigger dream spins its yarn and life as you know it up till that point-alters. Whether it alters for the better or worse is upto the individual.
Hubert Humphrey, an actor if I'm not mistaken, once said:
Its not what life takes away from you that counts. It's what you make of what is left with you"
Every change I realize, takes away something...but as this thought says...its what you make of the remanent that counts. Here are some stellar examples of how countries and even ordinary people became extraordinary by dealing with changed circumstances in truly inspirational ways.
When Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, the damage was so severe that not a blade of grass grew on that soil...and it still does not. The Americans had crushed the Japanese cities but they could not crush their spirit. Today Japan has not just recuperated but is in fact the richest country in the Asian Archipelago and one of the top ranked economies in the world.
Everyone knows of Hellen Keller and how she dealt with her blindness to become an idol to many NOT BLIND people.
Oprah Winfrey, who hasn't watched her "The Oprah Winfrey show", a decades long programme that has broken many records in American Television's Talk show history. She has been ranked one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood, in America and even globally. But that does not change the fact that she grew up in a racially discriminated Black milieu. Oprah, as she herself has admitted, grew up with severe insecurities. She was raped and ridiculed. She in fact admits that all she once wanted was to work for a few good white people, now she has many good white people working for her...
I think the world knows about Mahatma Gandhi. Actually Mahatma is a sacred title, prefixed to his name. It implies divinity and that divinity came from his undaunting spirit in uniting the Indian masses against British imperialism. His efforts were instrumental in India's long lasting struggle for Independence...
During the Cricket world cup, 2003 (I think), India was playing a match against Pakistan..(arch rivals). Sachin Tendulkar, one of our star batsman injured his leg..the situation became tricky.Things could have gone bad, but the man continued running between the wickets...bearing all the pain...and well we won despite having to face a huge score of 294 runs..advancing further to finally make it to the world cup finals...
There are MANY such examples of how dealing with change has made history....to go back to where I started...echoes may fade and memories may die...what exists today may end tommorrow. There will always be a transformation..because everyday is a new day. But the story of success begins in dealing with change..and in that- dealing with TODAY...for
"A today well lived makes every tommorrow a dream of happiness: bigger, better and more solid than ever"