Comments on: If there is a WILL There is a WAY http://www.leonlioe.com/inspirational-stories/if-there-is-a-will-there-is-a-way UNLEASH YOUR PERSONAL POWER THROUGH THE POWER OF SELF-DEVELOPMENT Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:09:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Yvonne Mahoney http://www.leonlioe.com/inspirational-stories/if-there-is-a-will-there-is-a-way#comment-644 Yvonne Mahoney Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:16:13 +0000 http://www.leonlioe.com/inspirational-stories/if-there-is-a-will-there-is-a-way#comment-644 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. 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.

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