People and influences in my life

I always wanted to start a blog of my own n was fiddling with a lot of ideas of what to start it with..... n finally decided to start with something that would motivate people..... Some of the philosophies of my life that I have learnt from people and influences that came into my life, felt very strongly about but have not been able to practice fully myself yet.....

Parents inspire and educate each child and help them evolve in life, It’s was the child learns from situations that life throws at him and from the people around him that actually make him a man.

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up again that matters” - Vince Lombardi, Concept introduced to me by my chemistry teacher in school, Mrs. Y Upreti.

I was educated on this phrase by my chemistry teacher in school. I do not recall the exact words that she may have told me but I definitely remember that she meant “Life is all about being knocked down but not out”. This was at a time when I was doing exceptionally bad in my academics after having been a good student all along. For some reason Mrs. Upreti took a liking to me and made me promise with my left hand (She told me that the left hand had a vein that went to my heart and would help me keep my promise. I still believe in it very strongly). It’s a philosophy that stuck with me. Not that it turned me around and I became a topper after that…… trust me I saw even worse academic years after that, but I learned a very important lesson. As soon as you allow circumstances to knock you out, you become their slaves and they keep knocking you about till you are sent into your grave.

I learned to hold on and keep trying. If one method failed I would adopt a new one. Experimented with how I toiled or how I thought I could achieve maximum.

“Have you ever heard of the phrase “the path less traveled”? That is the path that the successful people are comfortable in taking. Though the road is rough and tough, yet they are willing to take it because they know what awaits them at the end of the road”. That was mam’s moral as I understood it and it is something I have not forgotten till date. As I progressed from that day on I have evolved on mam’s theory and this is now how I stand to understand it today.

Those who take the road most traveled are those who want to have things easier in life, those who believed life is meant to be lived without facing any form of obstacle, the lily-livered type. What do you think is awaiting these ones at the end of the road? Penury, obscurity and things related to them. These are the people that will end up blaming everything, apart from them, as the source of where they have ended up in life.
All we need to do is change our perception of failure. It is something that is just a temporary event, but people who dwell on their failures always make it a permanent thing. All they do is just give that as an excuse for them not being able to move forward. We all fail at one point or the other in our stay on this planet but our decision must be to march on no matter what life throws at us. I have come to learn that the greatest failure in life is to stop trying. It is better to fail attempting a great deed than to attempt nothing and succeed.
And finally something I have come to learn about challenges, something that I relate directly to this theory, is that they make (not help) us become a better person. The mistakes I made yesterday, I find it difficult to make today.

I thankfully had the good fortune to meet more people like Mrs. Upreti in my life who taught me how to look up when the times and circumstances seemed tough. Though these associations may have been small or minor but the kind of impact these people have had on the way I thought and reacted to circumstances has been immense.

I dedicate my first blog entry to all the people that have shaped me into the person that I am today.

Thank you for being there for me and helping me reach where I am today