Without handicap, you can’t succeed-II
Alexander Wolcott once said: “Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have.” If we have a goal in mind, we should do something about it and not wait till everything is perfect. Instead of wasting our time in deciding whether we should do a thing or not, go ahead and do it and face the consequences too. If we keep on procrastinating, we are handling the stress of “by and by” which will only lead to the house of “never”.
An excellent time-saving habit is to start things on time. A little delay lengthens the day. As someone once said: “Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day seeking it.
A patient once told a psychiatrist “Doctor, my wife has diamonds and silk clothes. We live in a penthouse apartment. We own a farm house and have a chauffeur to drive our RollsRoyce.” The psychiatrist asked: “My dear man, what is your problem?” The man replied: “Doctor, I am only a clerk.” The psychiatrist asked: “My dear man, what is your problem?” The man replied: “Doctor, I am only a clerk.” The psychiatrist asked: “Then how do you have all these things you described?” The man replied: “We don’t have these things but my wife has a dream.”
Well, dreams should be manageable and within reach. A psychiatrist once said: “No matter whether you are rich or poor or have more problems than the other guy, if all the troubles of the world are gathered together and auctioned off to the highest bidder, most probably we would buy back our troubles than the other guy’s. Ultimately, what counts in the end is our ability and not disability. Helen Keller, the best known handicapped woman in the world, said: “No man had ever a defect that was not somewhere useful to him. I thank God for my handicaps, without them I could not have succeeded.”
It is like the turtle. Some of them live to ripe old age but spend their whole lives in a protected shell. If it is to move, it has to stick its neck out. Similarly, before we are ready to perform, we must have the courage to come out of our shell. We would discover new truths erasing old falsehoods about ourselves.