If you want something badly enough, you can find the means to get it. In other words, success is a matter of choice. If you have enough strong reasons, there is nothing that can stop you. Talk is cheap, let’s your actions do the talking. Similarly, a mere wish would not make things happen. It is a burning desire that turned into an obsession that will generate the energy to bring you to achieve any goal that you desire.
Take away the following story…
There was once a young boy who wanted to seek the secret of success. One day he approached a wise man living in an old temple near a valley. When he found the wise man, he asked, “Wise man, can you tell me the secret to becoming successful in life?” The wise man didn’t respond. After a moment of silence, the wise man led the young boy to a nearby river.
They kept walking into the river until the boy’s head was fully submerged in the water. The boy struggled to keep his head above the water. But to his surprise, the wise man didn’t help him. Instead, the wise man pushed the boy’s head further in the water. After a few minutes the wise man pulled the boy out of the water and they walked back to the old temple. At the temple, the wise man asked the young boy what he desired most when his head was submerged in water? The young boy quickly responded, “Of course, I wanted to breathe, you old fool!” To which the wise man replied, “Son, if you desire success as much as you wanted to breathe, then you would have found the true secret of success.”
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January 5th, 2008 21:16
I was reading to my family tonight a story by a woman called Eva Schloss about her life as a young Jewish girl, a contemporary of Anne Franks in the 1940s. She describes her by now not unfamiliar story of the terrible experiences of the Jews during that time and her own and her mother’s survival from the concentration camps. Your story above made me want to add that as with Eva, whatever depths your life sinks to, to survive, yes you need a lot of will but you need some other things too. She was not unique in wanting to survive. Many of the ones who did were the ones who did not give up hope because once that was lost, then the will to survive went too and the person would almost certainly die. I am sure that applies to many many human experiences.
Another element that applied to her was simple luck – opportunities that came her way that assisted her survival. Some of us have to work hard to create our own luck but many of us have also to be astute enough to see the opportunities that arise and canny enough to seize them.