Stray thoughts of Dr. Y. V. Rao-8
Life is a multi hued mosaic bristling
with limitless possibilities and limited opportunities, all jostling with one
another. In life, some try to grapple with any and every possibility only to
find themselves swimming against the current in the river of time while some
others happen to be seizing/riding the right opportunities life offers , often
in the guise of challenges and impediments, and swimming with the current.
Whatever the former touch turns instantly into dross and they attribute their
failure in life not to their misjudgement in grading their possibilities and
choosing the most probable ones but to their evil stars or malefic spirits or
both while the latter , with their Midas touch tend to regard themselves as
real achievers , achieving not because of the bounty of life but by dint of
hard work, diligent planning , meticulous execution and unfailing far and/or
foresight and what not, thus arrogating/appropriating to themselves the re
credit for their success and still others, in fact, most unaware of the
possibilities and unmindful of the opportunities , are content to be mere
bystanders watching the river of time flow by with no losses (suffered), to
grieve over nor gains (enjoyed) to gloat upon. They tend to assert that
whatever happens happens according to one’s fate.
The slots these people occupy may change, the mantles they don may
differ and the roles they enact may alter but the style and substance, the
idiom and the emphasis, the tone and tenor and the manner of articulation
remain unchanged.
However, a few exceptional ones undeterred by odds of whatever kind and
of whatever magnitude deliberately choose to swim against the current and
persevere until they achieve some victory for humanity by converting even the
impossible into an opportunity before they quit the stage of life. Such are the
people who make/mould history by sheer will power, with no thought for the
fairy grandmother’s smiles or frowns.
When they depart/die, one may shed tears that they have gone or smile
that they lived.
B 2-33
Many a setback, bad as they appear to
be , at the moment, come to be realized as good with the passage of time when
viewed in the hindsight and seen for what they actually were—derailed disasters
or unmitigated calamities averted. So is the case with our victories .
So one should not grieve over setbacks
or gloat over successes prematurely for, “There is no disaster that can’t
become a blessing and no blessing that can’t become a disaster”, as so rightly
observed by Richard Bach.
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Profound are the implications of vice
and virtue, the eternal duo, constantly competing for supremacy in man’s life
and occasionally clashing with each other, so overwhelming is the attraction of
vice but so devastating and demeaning are its consequences. So, so slow acting
is the influence of virtue but so long lasting and
life-enhancing/soul-elevating are its consequences.
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Telugu
B 2-36
Every child is a dividend due to Mother
Nature on the evolutionary investment she has made in fashioning its parents.
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