Blissful Life

Category: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

  • Why Your Dreams Must Be Unattainable

    What is there in simply dreaming about things that would never happen??!!!
    You can dream, dream and dream…(like APJ says)…..but…life is not a bed of roses.

    When I showed my list of dreams, one of my dearest friends asked me the above question.

    And I answered: Because,
    Reaching the goal is not the goal. Striving to reach there is the goal 
    – Swami Chinmayananda

    To repeat Chinmayananda in my own words, dreams are not meant to be achieved they are just reminders to move on. When you are a student, score maximum, when you are writing entrance aim for the top, when you are a doctor, try to be a better doctor, and then try to start a hospital of your own. Then may be you can expand that as a chain to other parts of India, then the whole world. Or start blogging. Or travel to places. Or treat poor people in remote villages.

    Just having a dream is not enough. The dream should be sky high.

    If you have a small dream from your childhood, and you somehow achieve that dream, then you stop growing. You stop learning new things. You get stuck in life. Problems begin to pile up. Your job will have become so boring to you that you will concentrate on your problems more and innovative ideas less. And then life starts to become boring. And that is when life is really going to be a thorny bed.

    But when you dream big, you try (at least try) to make things happen. And that would require that you grow. You will have to learn new things to make your dream happen. You may have to travel. You may have to meet people. But you grow.

    If you really take life in its sense, then these are really roses.

    Heard this story?

    Two guys were walking through the jungle when they spotted a lion. One of them reached into his bag and pulled out a pair of running shoes. The other guy looked at him.
    “Do you really think those shoes are going to make you run faster than that lion?”
    “No, and I don’t have to. I just have to run faster than you.”

    Though I don’t suggest this policy, this is life these days.  You don’t have to be the best, but you can be somewhere in front of the trailing lot, and you will be surviving. When you do nothing you just rot away. But when you try to reach somewhere, you end up at least a little higher.

    So, dream high so that you move on. And remember that even though you may never reach your dreams, you will reach higher than most other people, and that would suffice almost always.

    To sum up,
    “When you stop dreaming, you stop growing.”

  • Nation remembers Mahatma Gandhi on Martyrs Day

    This is the post i made in APJ Abdul Kalam’s Fan club in the thread

    Nation remembers Mahatma Gandhi on Martyrs Day

    Down in Kerala, we don’t have anyone with much hatred towards Gandhi. But everyone tells that his ideas are highly improbable, at least now.

    But, in whatever way i followed him, his path made me successful.

    All my classmates has their own nicknames, names which they don’t wish to be called. But I don’t have any. Those who name others have tried to name me too. But as Gandhi told, I just don’t react. Let them tell anything. Now, I have no name except Akshay.

    I have seen many children of my age making tit for tat. But Gandhiji told to be patient. And whenever someone provokes me even physically, I just don’t care. And that has given me an absolutely calm life. I don’t remember fighting with anyone for the last 2 years (i’m in 10th standard, now)

    Gandhiji also taught me the value of truth.
    The fact with truth is that, if you tell only the truth, you will never have to repent. Even if you are being blamed, you need not be thinking, “i shouldn’t have said that, because you’ve told the truth only”
    This has helped me quite a very big lot in keeping the cool in many situations.

    Gandhiji taught me brahmacharya. When my exams drew nearer and I used to be sitting in front of tv set, his two chapters in MEWT got me away from the tv to text books. And i am getting more than average marks.

    In real life, I have been comfortable with any person. I don’t know if anyone in my school hates me.

    But it has given me setbacks too. My classmates, who are not used to His ideas sees me as a weird persons. They think that telling the truth is inappropriate. And they don’t add me to friends list. But I have nice friends who understand Gandhiji and me.

    Gandhiji has really influenced my life. My life is an experiment of his theories. And i believe his theories have been right till now.

  • Self Confidence and Attitude

    A story that I got from Success does not come in a day community in Orkut. Thanks to the TS Duttkumar

    A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment.

    He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

    Suddenly an old man appeared before him.

    “I can see that something is troubling you,” he said. After listening to the executive’s woes, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.”

    He asked the man his name, wrote out a cheque, and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

    The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

    “I can erase my money worries in an instant!” he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the un-cashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.

    With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

    Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the un-cashed check.

    At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.

    “I’m so glad I caught him!” she cried. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you. He’s always escaping from the rest home and telling people he’s John D. Rockefeller. “

    And she led the old man away by the arm.

    The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he’d been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him.

    Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.

    Have faith in your self as only that counts.