Monday, 23 January 2012

Excerpts from My Journey of Life:

Excerpts from My Journey of Life:

Overcoming Obstacles:
What good is life if you haven’t had a chance to learn something from it? How utterly boring if you always had your way… there would be no further dreams or goals to accomplish… no desires to fulfill, no imagination or creativity , no inspiration or motivation to do better.

On the other hand, how adventurous to have life keep throwing surprises at you every step of the way! The fact that no one person’s life is exactly similar to another’s makes each journey that much more special and unique.  It is often said that ‘Victory is that much sweeter after Failure’ :-)

Its only when u see obstacles or ‘apparent setbacks’ that you are given an opportunity to gather your strength from hidden sources within you and call forth into creating a new and more durable you.

Personally speaking, every time I was told that I was not ‘capable’ of doing a thing, I held on to doing that exact thing, wanting to prove to myself more than anyone else that I really could do it.

From having no command over the English language as a little child and scoring mostly C’s academically (I was told to change schools as I would not be able to ‘cope’) to getting mostly A+’s by the time I was eight.

By being called ‘slow one’ in  kindergarten for a  school duck race, even though I had a head start, only because I wanted to perfect the ‘quack’ to coming first the following year in a shoe lace tying race.

By being the weakest in sports and thus a benchmark for the minimum passing grade in sports to learning and excelling in swimming, badminton, roller skating and training for muscle and strength endurance for hours.
From having no inclination or talent in painting (in spite of having talented artists as siblings) to painting an impression from Monet.
From being an average student in secondary school to getting a ‘first class’ percentile in high school and university years.
From being one of the heavier participants during pre-contest days of a national beauty pageant to being one of the lightest on D-day!
From not knowing how to ride a bicycle (with a history of failed attempts) from sunrise, riding and falling continuously for those hours with no food or water till sunset where a beaming me convinced myself and others of the Power of our ‘Willpower’.
This list can go on and on as we attempt to use to the maximum, our ‘Never say die’ attitude in overcoming any obstacles to our path.

There are three kinds of people, one who swims with the tide, one who swims against it and one who chooses to  not move their limbs and consequently they drown.  So choose your response wisely… :-)

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