Some time ago, at the Seattle Olympics, nine athletes, all mentally or physically challenged, were standing on the start line for the 100 m race. The gun fired and the race began. Not everyone was running, but everyone wanted to participate and win.
They ran in threes, a boy tripped and fell, did a few somersaults and started crying. The other eight heard him crying. They slowed down and looked behind them. They stopped and came back… All of them…
A girl with Down’s Syndrome sat down next to him, hugged him and asked, “Feeling better now?”Then, all nine walked shoulder to shoulder to the finish line. The whole crowd stood up and applauded. And the applause lasted a very long time….
Feel the innocence of the children…Were they not aware of the rewards each would have got after completing the race…Why did they stopped…. They stopped because the hour needed them to stop. They stopped because they thought it was the right thing to do. They stopped because they wanted to win.
Deep down inside us, we all know that sometimes, the most important thing in life is much more than winning for ourselves. Let us all try to live life to the fullest, and in the right essence....
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The Reserve Boy
We all in one way or the other, require some instigators, some stimuli to be in a ‘Go – Get – It’ mood.
Here’s a beautiful story about a boy who was always kept in the reserves (during a football match) by his coach. The coach was not able to give him a chance because his team was full of mature and established players. The boy would be disheartened, every time he is denied the opportunity. But he kept his faith and motivational factor, intact.
His motivation was none else than his father, who unfortunately was blind. His father would come every time a match was played, expecting his boy on the field. Then, at last, the opportune moment came. One of the key players in the team was injured and the reserve boy was given the green signal.
What happened in the next 90 minutes was something which not a single soul in the stadium, could have dreamed of. This boy was, literally, taking the breath away from the spectators, needless to say the plight of the opposition team. The score line read: 6 – 1, in favor of our reserve boy’s team. The boy had scored, whooping, 5 goals.
After the match, the coach who was cursing himself for keeping this budding talent in the reserves, asked the boy. “What was that dear? That was the best debut I have seen in my entire coaching life”
The boy lowered his head. He was sobbing. He said, “This was the first match my father saw from above and I had sworn that I would give my best shot”. His father had died the night before. Drops of tears were rolling on the listener’s face….
Here’s a beautiful story about a boy who was always kept in the reserves (during a football match) by his coach. The coach was not able to give him a chance because his team was full of mature and established players. The boy would be disheartened, every time he is denied the opportunity. But he kept his faith and motivational factor, intact.
His motivation was none else than his father, who unfortunately was blind. His father would come every time a match was played, expecting his boy on the field. Then, at last, the opportune moment came. One of the key players in the team was injured and the reserve boy was given the green signal.
What happened in the next 90 minutes was something which not a single soul in the stadium, could have dreamed of. This boy was, literally, taking the breath away from the spectators, needless to say the plight of the opposition team. The score line read: 6 – 1, in favor of our reserve boy’s team. The boy had scored, whooping, 5 goals.
After the match, the coach who was cursing himself for keeping this budding talent in the reserves, asked the boy. “What was that dear? That was the best debut I have seen in my entire coaching life”
The boy lowered his head. He was sobbing. He said, “This was the first match my father saw from above and I had sworn that I would give my best shot”. His father had died the night before. Drops of tears were rolling on the listener’s face….
Monday, April 13, 2009
Paradigms
Paradigm makes a world of difference
There are times when we are too good and when we are too bad.....The real sanctity lies in the way we carry ourselves so that, at the sunset, our head should be still on our shoulders(I wish everyone would or atleast will give it a try ).....Just would like to foment it with a short story---
Railway Platform.....Passengers waiting for their trains to come.....total chaos and hue, as usual.....Now let me come to our main characters.....
Our lead character, Ramesh happens to reach the station almost 30 mins before the due departure.....And just at that time, as if enactng an act of perfect timing for the phrase ---icing on the cake....the announcement came along that the locomotive is 3 hrs behind time....
Well...there was no other way than to accept his timing....And then he realised that a huge noise was created by some children nearby (as though the calm ambience of the platform was not enough)....He enquired to see the source of the noise...
He was startled to see that there were 4 top vocalists (all below 6 yrs, probably) practicing their latent art of tampering with their vocal chord, as if to see each other's limits....Anywayz what surprised him more was this man who was sitting in between our performers...He was lost in his own world and was quite unknown about the marvellous acts enacted by his little demons('cuz that's what our lead character thought at that time)...
Ramesh was thinking as to how people leave their responsibilities behind and then let the world suffer on their own, as was evident from the scene....But when there was no sign of our little angels(different synonym, 'cuz they actually are) pulling off their show
Ramesh went to the guy, probably the father of the lot, and shouted at the top of his voice..."Hey mann, what do you think you are doing...do you feel any responsibility of taking care of your children and teaching them some discipline...." The guy answered in a low voice, "I am extremely sorry....My kids dont know how to express their feelings of losing their mother and neither do I". One day back, the children's mother had died.
Ramesh was in a state of shock...The moment before he was thinking that this man was not worthy of being a human and now he was having sympathy for him, ...There was a sudden change in his paradigm (In IT parlance, its the prototype or image we create) of thinking....
I am narrating this small instance to say that we all face adverse circumstances, every now and then, in our life's but still sometimes some things linger long in our minds, which should not be....Actually, what I mean to say is whenever we are in such a situation with our selves, we should try to change the paradigm of our mind.....Think from the other side of the river...Think about the positives in our life...Think about the good things that happen in our lives (which we, infact, not even notice) And most foremost and easiest being, Think from your heart because if we really will, we will never go wrong in our search for reaching our destined destiny....Though its an overdose, the last and of course, not the least, never judge a person readily...they may not be as good/bad as they seem to be....Have a Happy Adventurous Life
There are times when we are too good and when we are too bad.....The real sanctity lies in the way we carry ourselves so that, at the sunset, our head should be still on our shoulders(I wish everyone would or atleast will give it a try ).....Just would like to foment it with a short story---
Railway Platform.....Passengers waiting for their trains to come.....total chaos and hue, as usual.....Now let me come to our main characters.....
Our lead character, Ramesh happens to reach the station almost 30 mins before the due departure.....And just at that time, as if enactng an act of perfect timing for the phrase ---icing on the cake....the announcement came along that the locomotive is 3 hrs behind time....
Well...there was no other way than to accept his timing....And then he realised that a huge noise was created by some children nearby (as though the calm ambience of the platform was not enough)....He enquired to see the source of the noise...
He was startled to see that there were 4 top vocalists (all below 6 yrs, probably) practicing their latent art of tampering with their vocal chord, as if to see each other's limits....Anywayz what surprised him more was this man who was sitting in between our performers...He was lost in his own world and was quite unknown about the marvellous acts enacted by his little demons('cuz that's what our lead character thought at that time)...
Ramesh was thinking as to how people leave their responsibilities behind and then let the world suffer on their own, as was evident from the scene....But when there was no sign of our little angels(different synonym, 'cuz they actually are) pulling off their show
Ramesh went to the guy, probably the father of the lot, and shouted at the top of his voice..."Hey mann, what do you think you are doing...do you feel any responsibility of taking care of your children and teaching them some discipline...." The guy answered in a low voice, "I am extremely sorry....My kids dont know how to express their feelings of losing their mother and neither do I". One day back, the children's mother had died.
Ramesh was in a state of shock...The moment before he was thinking that this man was not worthy of being a human and now he was having sympathy for him, ...There was a sudden change in his paradigm (In IT parlance, its the prototype or image we create) of thinking....
I am narrating this small instance to say that we all face adverse circumstances, every now and then, in our life's but still sometimes some things linger long in our minds, which should not be....Actually, what I mean to say is whenever we are in such a situation with our selves, we should try to change the paradigm of our mind.....Think from the other side of the river...Think about the positives in our life...Think about the good things that happen in our lives (which we, infact, not even notice) And most foremost and easiest being, Think from your heart because if we really will, we will never go wrong in our search for reaching our destined destiny....Though its an overdose, the last and of course, not the least, never judge a person readily...they may not be as good/bad as they seem to be....Have a Happy Adventurous Life
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