Refuse to give up
A child was born in 1880, who, nineteen months later, lost her senses of hearing and sight. Think that can a deaf and blind child learn speaking or ever know the ways of the world? Yet this child grew to tell us: “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” At 10 this deaf and blind child wished to speak, and she did it. This child thought in her heart – “Some day I shall enter college.” Years later she received her bachelors degree from the Radcliffe College. Universities of Harvard and Temple, U.S.; Glasgow, Scotland; Berlin, Germany; Delhi, India; and Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa offered her honorary doctoral degrees. Brazil’s Order of the Southern Cross, Japan’s Sacred Treasure, the Philippines’ Golden Heart, Lebanon’s Gold Medal of Merit, United States of America’s the Presidential Medal of Freedom were only few prestigious prizes bestowed upon her. A superb hurricane she was to send back the devastating waves that came to crush her; we know her by the name of Helen Keller!
When I read her autobiography – The Story of my Life– I was filled with shame, thankfulness and encouragement. I found it difficult to face myself; yet a drive to work and overcome my fears and weaknesses terrifically shook my soul and body.
Helen Keller brought light and enjoyment in her life and continues enlightening the lives of numerous others because she had made her world with her thoughts. Her positive thinking prompted her to find ways and take actions to realise her ambitions despite her so-called disabilities. As she thought that she will do it, she shook off the limitations her deafness and blindness had imposed upon her.
Lesson learnt:
Your circumstances won’t be able to prevent you from achieving success if you think you can do it! Lord Buddha: “We are what we think. / All that we are arises / With our thoughts. / With our thoughts, / We make our world.”
You will never hear a negative comment from successful people. True, at some points they might have uttered pessimism, but sometimes it is natural for humans to feel low.
Once a man became so hopeless and frustrated that he wished to die. But he refused to give up. He made a comeback and went on to write immortal books and earned so much success that his name H. G. Wellsis permanently engraved in the list of great people.
Who can prevent you from making a comeback like Wells did?
Think an answer before reading further...
Do not read, first think an answer.
No one – nothing has the power to stop you! Numerous powers are lying in disuse within yourself, use them. You are not using even a little part of your abilities. I am saying this because I have read what William James, who is referred as the founder of modern psychology, has said for you. Read the words of that great personality:
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.”
Success is your right. Except your negative thoughts, no one, no circumstances can deprive you from claiming it. People who blame nonexistent things like luck or chance remain far from success. But the fact that you are reading this post till this point proves that you do not belong to that bunch. You may have become hopeless like Wells, but you can certainly become successful as him as well.
Do you have the courage to make a comeback?
