Today, I want to share a story, I heard from Dr Srikumar Rao, an international speaker and famous teacher
Imagine you are a
civil engineer. You are called by your boss and he orders you to build a road
from point A to point B. Between the two points are a forest, a swamp, and a
mountain.
Do you get angry at
the forest, the swamp and the mountain?
No you will be
creative and find ways to go through them, around them, over them or under
them. You take up the challenge, may increase the fees you ask, but you will
work until the road is completed because that is what you were trained for.
Now, in our life, the
road to point B is the road to a successful, purposeful, joyful life. The irritating,
perhaps toxic people and the adverse situations you are subjected to, these are
the forests and the mountains. You do not get angry at them, you just figure
out how you are going to get your road built. We and we alone are responsible
for our own successful, purposeful and joyful existence.
Hearing this story, it filled me with a feeling of inspiration, motivation.
I hope you feel the same :)
I have put the above story in a small rhyme too:
An engineer was asked
to build a big, long road.
But across the terrain
of the planned highway,
There was a forest,
and a wide river flowed.
Also, there was a mountain,
made of heavy clay.
Did these obstacles disturb
the engineer’s mind?
Did he curse the mountain
and the river too?
No, creative solutions,
he set out to find,
Because that was what
he was trained to do.
Now along the path of
our life's success,
There will be many
obstacles to our happiness.
Will we curse all
problems and get depressed
And give easily up
because we are stressed?
Or will we work around
them and use our skills
To go through, around
or over any hills
To cross the rivers,
to move through the thickest forest
And live a life like
our Creator had intended for us?
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I have a translation available on my kaya jiwa, my Bahasa Malaysia blog:
I am sure you will enjoy some of my other online treasures as well:
- Beautiful skies seen by Hans:
- Beautiful flowers:
- Inspirational and motivational poems (I have written them under the pen name of Aufie Zophy)
- Two fables and a short story (my own favorite is 'Sammy and Alice')
- Inspirational quotes:
- Very short essays about simple good things:
Small prayers for this big world:
