POOR ME IS A POOR HERO
“Your sad story won’t sell,” I told the young-ones in my training session, today, “Poor Me is, in deed, a poor hero.”
Poor Me is a victim. A loser.
And, a victim doesn’t attract,
nor inspires…
People already have enough
sadness, enough pain, enough worries in them… Now, why would they add more of
it by listening to yours?
Once, they will… Twice, they may…
Thrice, they won’t.
“All the world loves a winner,
and has no time to spare for a loser.” I had come across this line in Napoleon
Hill’s inspirational classic – ‘Think & Grow Rich’ – when I myself was
caught up in the web of self-pity and blame. I was an anxiety-stricken young-man,
then, filled with self-pity and ‘Poor Me’ mindset. The book caught hold of my
neck and shook me hard. “Enough of crying,” it yelled, “get up and do… dream…
achieve!”
Our condition in life changes
only when we get hold of ourselves… When we take responsibility for our progress,
success, well-being… whatever it is. Justifying our failures with reasons, won’t
help us in any way… Learning from our mistakes does. Resolving to change our
ways, habits and attitude does… Persistent effort to improve our condition
does.
“Surround yourself with cheerful
people…
Up-beat, positive people,” I told the young-ones
during the session,
today, “it rubs on you.”
If I desire to succeed in my
exams, let me not surround myself with those who waste way their time, who have
no desire to succeed. Similarly, if I desire to be prosperous, let me surround
myself with prosperous people… Same holds good for happiness, health, wealth and
harmony.
My
message to the young-ones was, therefore: “Only your success story attracts,
inspires… Only a victor sells, not a loser.”
I was talking to them about
building up our self-confidence. “Where does it start?” I asked them, “Is it
not by getting up and doing something about it?”
“Who wants my sad story, any way…
What purpose does it serve, if I narrate it, over and over again?”… Yes, I had added.
GERALD D’CUNHA
Pic.: Mehul Bhuva
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