Life is never about how hard we can hit but it’s all about how hard we can get hit and keep moving forward. Indeed, life is not always about merry times, joyous days, cheerful rainbows and inspirational sunshines, its more about the gloomy winter, the tough time and the harsh weather which creeps in most of the time and the ones who don’t let such things get in their road to success, the ones who carry a resolve mightier than the world are the ones who at last breathe the air of greatness and feel the warmth of success.
In life there would be plethora of situations in which you would be left with nothing, notwithstanding of all the efforts you put in, many a times the results engendered are literally nihil or not upto your expectation, and at last you are stricken hard with grief, pain, sorrow and regret. Failure sweeps up everything and not even a single pinch of motivation is left in your heart. We all might face such hard and gross circumstances one day or another and when we would face such crushing and harsh defeats we all would be dashed to the ground, but my friends, that’s the actual fight that you need to combat.
Paulo Coelho, the famous novelist, penned down in his famous work, “The Alchemist”, that “the universe conspires to help the dreamer. When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” Whenever we embark on a great journey or whenever we set sail to our destiny, the whole universe comes close to help us out, but it only helps the true dreamer and in veracious sense, it helps the one who works the best with humongous motivation and extreme passion and to choose a person with so much will and resolve the universe, the energy or the God, has devised its own ways. If things would have been easy, if becoming great at something would have been a child’s play, nobody of us would have waited to achieve it and each one of us would have been extraordinarily exceptional and greatness would have lost its charm and therefore life is not at all that tractable and gullible and you need to outshine even the best, or perhaps the best of all, to achieve, what we call “greatness”.
Hence in your way there would be innumerous hurdles. Whenever you try to achieve something, there are thousands of people or even millions of them, competing against you to achieve the things you desire for and hence for the selection of one out of those thousands or millions, tests have to be taken and obstacles that you actually face in your life are just these tests. As I mentioned earlier, greats are not those who know how to punch but are the ones who know how to suffer, the ones, who know how to carry on even when they might be facing the biggest disasters of their life, would come out victorious. I am not saying that in your due course of journey you must never lose any battle but what matters in the long term is how much we persevere.
Failure is inevitable. Even the bests have failed miserably, much more than you would ever will but what counts more than your defeats is the desire and passion to hold on and be persistent despite of having all the odds against you. Let me elaborate my point through a true story. It’s about the year 1832. This guy lost his job and then also the state legislature election. In the succeeding year, he set up his own business but failed miserably to the extent of starvation. Just after two years when he had not even recuperated from this disaster, he lost his beloved wife due to which in 1836 he suffered a fatal nervous breakdown. After two years in 1838, he fought for the speaker’s election in parliament but was defeated, in 1843 he lost the nomination for Congress, in 1848 he lost the renomination to the Congress, in 1849 trying to get back to normal life he didn’t even qualify for the job of a land officer, in 1854 the guy lost the United Senate election. After such a great list of defeats of the guy, you must have thought till now that he was a dumb and foolish person and amounted to nothing, and moreover in 1858, just as per your perception, he was defeated in the election for the Vice President. So, was this guy a great looser? Certainly yes! But, didn’t he amount to anything? Certainly “not”!
Just two years after this incident, in the year 1860, he became world’s most powerful man, the President of the United States of America, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, one of the most legendary speakers (his Gettysburg address changed the course of history), one of the most powerful leaders of the world and above all perhaps the most tenacious person in the world.
Despite of facing so many tough times, in which most of us decide to leave and forsake what we had been doing, this guy carried on and at last got what he deserved truly. When everything in life became tough nobody could even dare of moving ahead, this guy stood up and every time, when defeat tried to subdue him, every time he recovered with even more fervor and beat all odds to get what he desired. And this is certainly the most exemplary and paragon example of how much perseverance, success demands.
There would be times when luck would elude you, there might be times when situation would not allow you to move ahead, there might be times when you, yourself would doubt you passion, there might be times when success would appear almost unattainable, there might be times when your opponents might seem invincible and there might be times when you would cry hard but my friend don’t let your tears fall away. Breed these tears inside your heart and cultivate more and more passion. Use every brick thrown at you to transform them into the pillars of you success and when your passion would be able to even outdo the courage and patience of universe, the gloomy clouds would themselves veer away and the bright warmth of success would touch your feet but till then wait and don’t let anything else beat you. Work hard in silence and let your success roar for you.
Remember, you are already in pain, it can last for a day, an hour or a year and later on success would suffice it but if you quit today, it will last for lifetime as a lacunae in your life and this would ultimately transform you to a dejected person in complete despair, and you surely are not born for that. So just use your pain, move ahead, no matter how hard it is to carry on, just use every minute you have, use everything you have and move ahead and success would certainly follow your footprints.
So rather than taking your defeat as a major setback, learn from it, have so much passion that you could even change the future, even when the going gets difficult have so much courage that you surpass you difficulties and transform them to milestones of success because “great” is that one victory, which has been achieved through persistent hard work and keep in mind, “losers quit when they are tired but winners quit when they done” and you are the born winner……
At last I would just conclude by saying that,
“Winning means you are willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anybody else.”
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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