BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!!!!!!

Whatever you try to achieve in your life, no one will ever believe in you. But, in order to succeed, at least one person should believe in you, and you know who that person is. It is YOU. Nothing great has ever been achieved without believing that it could be achieved. Don't think that all the inventions that you see today are created by magic. Think about any invention and inventor, bulb and Edison, flying machine and Wright brothers, how do you think these are invented. The inventors believed that such machines can be invented. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been possible. As said by Swami vivekananda, " All power is within you, you can achieve anything and everything." All you need to do is to believe in yourself.

Very often, taking up the first step is very difficult. We all have a goal and want to achieve it but it requires tremendous energy to take up the first step. It is because of the fact that the past, where we had some bitter experiences of failures try to hold us back. Many times, it is like the fear of failure, which stops us even from giving it a try. The fear is true and it is real. It is like gravity which holds the rocket from flying into the skies. More than half of the fuel is spent in lifting the rocket just few feet off the ground and remaining fuel takes the rocket into the skies. Similarly, lot of effort has to be spent in order to break the gravity of fear from past failures and start flying. The first steps are always very difficult and hard to take. But, once you start, the rest will be a cake walk. The key is to get up and keep going when you fall down badly.

When a young giraffe is born, it is generally weak, very weak even to stand on its own feet. But, if the young doesn't stand up and start walking, it would probably be its last day on the earth. The predators can easily locate a new born. The mother giraffe knows it well. So, when the giraffe falls on the ground for the first time, it is weak and it refuses to stand up and keep up with the herd. The mother giraffe kicks the young one, so hard that the young one sometimes rolls off and finally stands up. Then, the mother giraffe again kicks it to make it fall on the ground. The mother repeats this process so that the young one will remember the way it got up. If the baby giraffe fails to stand up, it would end up dead. Even our lives can be compared to the baby giraffes. We get knocked down, defeated, we have to get up and keep trying, otherwise we will fall prey to the competition.

Inspired by the words of Ravindra Babu Ravula