What do you see when you release a mouse off from the trap? Ever felt the agony and trauma of getting locked up in a 3 sq. ft. box room...all you want is to get out..and once you get out you just never want to get back, the sheer memory of the incident pinches you down in the heart. I came across a book in which a disciple of Socrates asked him “What do I do for success; I don’t seem to feel motivated?” Socrates takes him to a river and goes with him waist deep into it, and then plunges the head of his disciple in the water forcibly. He doesn’t pull him out until he is out of breath, does this again and then asks the disciple how did he feel? The disciple replies I just wanted to get out and could do anything for it. That was the answer that Socrates wanted him to realize. When you want something then it should take each bit of your best effort. Similar is lore about Arjun seeing only the eye of the clay bird on being asked by Dronacharya.
“Never settle for anything less than the best you can do and the highest you can reach”….is the lesson I get from it. There may be hundreds of stories like these if you actually start searching for them. The task is not to do that, it is to make the realization in our souls happen. We fail in our goals due to lack of effort, sometimes due to luck and sometimes we are cheated but someone who remains his composure through all this has probably learnt the Art of Living. You need to beat the hell out of life before it beats you. But do respect the fact that until you get beaten the feeling never comes, we get beaten by margins of time, money, effort and what not but not until tears wash out our corneas we just don’t get the rush.
I want to rush with my dreams far ahead of others…I want not just to run but to do a “Usain Bolt” and just like him I would want to slap my chest and feel the wind before I hit the finishing line. Now for all of you there who have ever tried to pull someone down, I’d say “Catch me if you can” for I am going to beat living daylights out of you and beat the cheetah within me this time....
“Never settle for anything less than the best you can do and the highest you can reach”….is the lesson I get from it. There may be hundreds of stories like these if you actually start searching for them. The task is not to do that, it is to make the realization in our souls happen. We fail in our goals due to lack of effort, sometimes due to luck and sometimes we are cheated but someone who remains his composure through all this has probably learnt the Art of Living. You need to beat the hell out of life before it beats you. But do respect the fact that until you get beaten the feeling never comes, we get beaten by margins of time, money, effort and what not but not until tears wash out our corneas we just don’t get the rush.
I want to rush with my dreams far ahead of others…I want not just to run but to do a “Usain Bolt” and just like him I would want to slap my chest and feel the wind before I hit the finishing line. Now for all of you there who have ever tried to pull someone down, I’d say “Catch me if you can” for I am going to beat living daylights out of you and beat the cheetah within me this time....
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