A class in a school or college, has on an average 30 students.
The teacher teaches the 30 students.
It is the same subject, the same 30 students, taught at the same time, in the same style yet only one student gets the top marks!
Is it the teacher or the taught who should get the credit for top marks? And what happened to those other 29 students? Why could they not score top marks when they too were exposed to the same class, same teacher, subject, teaching style...
The giver is one but the takers are as many. How they take it and what value they add to it, is what matters to succeed in life.
Mahalakshmi.
Showing posts with label Success. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Success. Show all posts
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Shah Rukh Khan & Hema Malini - Stories of Hurt & Rejection
Read a comment made by the Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan on his meeting with Steven Speilburg at some international movie festival (Cannes or somewhere). This must be long time back, though.
Khan was very excited to see Steven who was sitting right next to him in some film festival abroad. Unfortunately there was no response from the great man who looked through our Khan like he was some transparant glass! Khan was upset and commented that Steven must have thought Khan to be some fan-type of person, trying to get some attention. He vowed to prove that he was no fan-type but great star material. Everyone knows his movies have opened at theatres abroad, to housefulls and he has made a name as a successful star.
Yet two things come to my mind:
a)If not for fan-types will these stars survive? But for these fan-types a hero's movie cannot expect to run, why deride them by referring to them this way?
b)Khan should be thankful that someone prodded him on to perform better even if it was just to show that he was no ordinary celebrity-crazy fan-type.
It always happens to all of us in our own lives.
Someone insults us or we think they insulted us.
We remember that insult but they never even have the faintest idea that they insulted or hurt us.
This slight or hurt often propels us to work harder even if it is to prove someone else that we have talent or skill.
I recall reading way back, how a very young Hema Malini, who got a chance to meet Vyjayantimala who was a big star then, din't bother nor oblige her with an autograph. Hema Malini felt very let down due to this. She was nicknamed as the 'dream girl' and later went on to prove herself to be a very successfull Bollywood actress of her times.
Vyjayantimala may not even remember this episode. For Hema Malini, it must have acted as a propeller to work harder to show she was something who mattered in the movie world.
Fan types or not, success is got due to channelling our energies due to someone's failure to recognize us or our talents.
The person who hurts is not important but the hurt getting converted into positive action from inside us is very important. The fire to prove is lit and its upto us to keep the fire burning until we succeed.
I am sure there will not be a single human, who may not have gone through some kind of rejection, failure, hurt in life. We cannot lie down feeling sad forever. We have to get up, get going, perform some action which leads us to overcome this rejection, this failure or this hurt.
Success is most often achieved this way.
May the Festival Of Lights show us all the right path.
May we all prosper with good health, wealth and joy.
Happy Diwali.
Mahalakshmi
Khan was very excited to see Steven who was sitting right next to him in some film festival abroad. Unfortunately there was no response from the great man who looked through our Khan like he was some transparant glass! Khan was upset and commented that Steven must have thought Khan to be some fan-type of person, trying to get some attention. He vowed to prove that he was no fan-type but great star material. Everyone knows his movies have opened at theatres abroad, to housefulls and he has made a name as a successful star.
Yet two things come to my mind:
a)If not for fan-types will these stars survive? But for these fan-types a hero's movie cannot expect to run, why deride them by referring to them this way?
b)Khan should be thankful that someone prodded him on to perform better even if it was just to show that he was no ordinary celebrity-crazy fan-type.
It always happens to all of us in our own lives.
Someone insults us or we think they insulted us.
We remember that insult but they never even have the faintest idea that they insulted or hurt us.
This slight or hurt often propels us to work harder even if it is to prove someone else that we have talent or skill.
I recall reading way back, how a very young Hema Malini, who got a chance to meet Vyjayantimala who was a big star then, din't bother nor oblige her with an autograph. Hema Malini felt very let down due to this. She was nicknamed as the 'dream girl' and later went on to prove herself to be a very successfull Bollywood actress of her times.
Vyjayantimala may not even remember this episode. For Hema Malini, it must have acted as a propeller to work harder to show she was something who mattered in the movie world.
Fan types or not, success is got due to channelling our energies due to someone's failure to recognize us or our talents.
The person who hurts is not important but the hurt getting converted into positive action from inside us is very important. The fire to prove is lit and its upto us to keep the fire burning until we succeed.
I am sure there will not be a single human, who may not have gone through some kind of rejection, failure, hurt in life. We cannot lie down feeling sad forever. We have to get up, get going, perform some action which leads us to overcome this rejection, this failure or this hurt.
Success is most often achieved this way.
May the Festival Of Lights show us all the right path.
May we all prosper with good health, wealth and joy.
Happy Diwali.
Mahalakshmi
Monday, May 31, 2010
Being Prepared
Dear Friends!
Since the past 9 days we have had to stay elsewhere as 2 bathrooms at home are being renovated.
It could have got finished in a week yet its been dragging on for longer time due to labor playing traunt.
We now travel from Perungudi where we are right now put up at my sister-in-law's (bless her for putting up with us for quite some time now) house to Adyar.
Every day we keep our small money change before we set out in an auto or a share auto which would cost us less than hiring an auto. But getting change for a hundred rupees is difficult early in the morning and no shopkeeper around would oblige either.
Today morning we had a hundred rupee note and no change. Yet we got into an auto. Upon our asking if he had change on him, he said he always filled up petrol for his auto and kept enough change as he dint want to be harassed nor did he like to harass his passengers who could be in a hurry to reach their destinations. I was really very impressed about his attitude towards his profession.
It made me think. Being an auto driver he has to have adequate change at all times otherwise it could mean loss of a prospective passenger getting impatient while waiting for the auto driver to settle his fare with the previous one.
It does pay to think of what all one might need for a particular job and be prepared with them in advance to have a peaceful working day ahead.
Behind success lies hard work and good planning!
Cheers!
Mahalakshmi
Since the past 9 days we have had to stay elsewhere as 2 bathrooms at home are being renovated.
It could have got finished in a week yet its been dragging on for longer time due to labor playing traunt.
We now travel from Perungudi where we are right now put up at my sister-in-law's (bless her for putting up with us for quite some time now) house to Adyar.
Every day we keep our small money change before we set out in an auto or a share auto which would cost us less than hiring an auto. But getting change for a hundred rupees is difficult early in the morning and no shopkeeper around would oblige either.
Today morning we had a hundred rupee note and no change. Yet we got into an auto. Upon our asking if he had change on him, he said he always filled up petrol for his auto and kept enough change as he dint want to be harassed nor did he like to harass his passengers who could be in a hurry to reach their destinations. I was really very impressed about his attitude towards his profession.
It made me think. Being an auto driver he has to have adequate change at all times otherwise it could mean loss of a prospective passenger getting impatient while waiting for the auto driver to settle his fare with the previous one.
It does pay to think of what all one might need for a particular job and be prepared with them in advance to have a peaceful working day ahead.
Behind success lies hard work and good planning!
Cheers!
Mahalakshmi
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Hope or Greed?
Dear Friends,
I often wonder about the expectations and hopes writ large on the faces of TV game shows' participants. Some are lucky to hit a medium jackpot but most are not that fortunate to win prize money.
Winning and not winning. There is a fine line dividing the two yet so many emotions pass through the mind in a split second of its occurrence. We feel extremely happy and lucky when we win and feel God has let us down badly if we lose! Our minds always want us to be happy and successful. We are never able to take failures or losses in our stride. We curse God, others and very rarely ourselves when we don't make it. The day we are able to see both success and failure with the detachment it deserves while continuing to do our karma we will continue to feel this way all our lives.
Like the wise say there's a fine line between a genius and a madman, so also there is a fine line between winning or losing in the game show called life.
Take life as an adventure.
Cheers!
Mahalakshmi
I often wonder about the expectations and hopes writ large on the faces of TV game shows' participants. Some are lucky to hit a medium jackpot but most are not that fortunate to win prize money.
Winning and not winning. There is a fine line dividing the two yet so many emotions pass through the mind in a split second of its occurrence. We feel extremely happy and lucky when we win and feel God has let us down badly if we lose! Our minds always want us to be happy and successful. We are never able to take failures or losses in our stride. We curse God, others and very rarely ourselves when we don't make it. The day we are able to see both success and failure with the detachment it deserves while continuing to do our karma we will continue to feel this way all our lives.
Like the wise say there's a fine line between a genius and a madman, so also there is a fine line between winning or losing in the game show called life.
Take life as an adventure.
Cheers!
Mahalakshmi
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