True Happiness

You start fishing in the morinig, hoping to make a great breakfast but the sun is now right above you, indicating 12 PM. Ok, now you can make a great lunch within a matter of minutes.You see around and see other fishermen too and get an air of relief, never knowing that they already have enough fish in their baskets. A shiver runs down your spines when all of sudden you see the fellow fishermen leaving with their baskets heavy. With a solemn face, you continue fishing hoping to make a great dinner with your stomach hoping against hope. It's already 8 PM and your the hook is still light. As you prepare to leave the bank garnering courage to stay hugry the whole night, the hook gets so heavy that you cannot hold the rod with your single hand. Finally you get something, that can feed you for four coninuous days. You have now become the happiest among all other fellow fishermen. 

 

What if you had given hope at 7:55 PM?

 

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
you feel it, don't you?
-Rumi

MORE THAN WHAT YOU KNOW MATTERS WHO YOU KNOW- by someone who knows 

quote of the day

"For the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you." - Hindu saying

(a SAT essay) (Q) The novelist John Hersey wrote, “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” What are your thoughts on the idea that failure is necessary for education to take place?

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- An english proverb goes-“learn from your mistakes.” It is also said that-“learn from others mistake because you cannot possibly make all the mistakes by yourself.” This delineates how important mistakes or simply failure is in our lives. Thus, failure is a lifelong teacher and without it, education cannot take place.

Failure is a critical pre-requisite for the ability to learn. It is strenuous for a child to learn the alphabets initially. After that, it is even harder for him to assemble them into words and then sentences. Obviously, the child fails in the beginning. It takes him months and even years to learn that, and this is the vivid example of failure in the beginning of education. Failure drives us to learn, points our mistakes and loopholes, which makes our learning process effective.

The examples of the most successful people in the world are also the examples of the greatest failures. Thomas Edison was a great American inventor, and without him, we would be living in a dark. He failed more than one thousand times and ultimately came up with a light bulb. He was really a scanty student and was told to discontinue his formal education by his teachers. The story is exactly similar for Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton as well. Edition had said ‘I did not fail but found ten thousand ways that did not work.’ This is how successful people turned their failures into stepping-stones. Every scientist knows that experiment is never truly a failure; it is a lesson that teaches us what not to do and pushes us to a different approach.

A person who has failed several times has a true value of what he has learned. I have a great experience while practicing math. When I will be able to solve a problem after several hours of attempts I really feel good but I do not feel that way, when I solve it in my first attempt.

In a nutshell, failure inspires us to learn and achieve highest goals. If a mistake is made, one never tries to repeat it and this perception is the first step towards our journey to success. Not everybody is born with all the skills required to survive. Hence, failure is inexorable no matter what we do, But, the matter of fact is failing is not losing; it is just a wonderful opportunity to learn.

poem

BEAUTY

Problems, difficulties and sorrows everywhere

Conflicts, misconcepts and misunderstandings everywhere

Hurry, worry and sorry had grabbed me

Rivalry, hostility and disputes had destroyed me

I was fade up with all these evil deeds

Flaws, mistakes that I had committed

I was anxious and had grave consequence

I was totally lost in the world of uncertainty

It was like the whole world is coming to an end,

Or I was going to diminish,

I was in a great confusion, the confusion I didn’t know

I was in a complete mess, the mess I didn’t know

Full of tensions and trashes in mind, I was sitting in a garden

Just trying to root out the cause of my problem

Abruptly, I happened to concentrate on a blooming rose

That gave me the lesson of life which changed my pose

Spreading a smile in the middle of the thorns

With its pleasant fragrance, luring the world

I learned a lesson, a lesson for life

Which a rose taught me , with full faith and pride.

The charm of flowers, the freshness of wind

The greenery of grasses, the purity of leaves

I realized the importance of beauty

The beauty of attraction, the beauty of sight

The beauty of nature, the beauty of life.

                                                                                                                      -siddhartha