Feroz shows the way from gathering pity to making history
(Mr. Feroz Ahmad Paray, 22, was born in Kalampora in Pulwama District. He completed his B.Sc. degree (pre-medical stream) from the Government College in Pulwama, and is currently pursuing post graduation in Business Economics from Wigan & Leigh College in Srinagar. His personal interests vary from writing poems and playing cricket to net surfing and shopping. His favorite author is Khalil Gibran.)
Believe in yourself
“Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don’t accuse the sun of partiality” (Chinese proverb)
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Everyone has limits. But we never know our limits, until our skills, potential and talent has been put to test. Never say, “This is all I can do, unless you have tried to do it.” Do you know that humans use only 10% of their brain? You have each and every thing. You have the resources. You have the capability. You just need to find it, and the first place to look into is within yourself. That’s the first and foremost thing you can do.
Our skills double when we face danger. We do every odd thing to escape from that danger. We see, hear, smell and move faster. It shows that we’re capable to act and do much more than we think. We are just too afraid at times. But what are we afraid of? Are we afraid we may actually find our true strength? Or is it, we just need to be pushed to find our true potential.
“What is the most universal human characteristic; fear, or laziness?” Some of us aren’t afraid. We just aren’t bothered. ‘So what’? are the two most dangerous accountable words. “So what I am weak? So what, I am not using my abilities to their best?” These are questions that can never be answered. But think about it for a while; if everyone starts asking you the same questions, how will you feel? If all the great leaders fuss: ‘so what the country is unhappy?’, if your grocer yells: so what, you are hungry?’’, if your garbage collector tells you: so what, your home is dirty? pointing their fingers to you, how will you feel?
Replace that acidic, “so what” with the hopeful, “what if?”
“What if you become some great person worth remembering?”
“What if you can make people proud of you?”
The thing that’s worse than quitting or failing is–being complacent: Believing that you are weak and that is all you are capable of. When you start to say, “This is the way I am and there is nothing I can do about it,” that is when you hit rock bottom. No one can help you in such a situation. Even the skills that you have mastered will be a waste with such an attitude. Believe in yourself, and then only you can expect others to believe in you. Keep going. Keep believing in yourself, because the race is not won by the swift, but by those who keeps on running.
So friends, what are you waiting for? Start changing yourself. Care for others even if no one else does care for you. The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.