THAT NOWHERE FIELD CALLED 'THE THIN AIR'
Pic.: Vincent D'Souza
If Face book is, now, just ten-year old, its
founder, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, is just 29!
Well, he became a billionaire at the age of 23… and, now,
his personal wealth is estimated to be close to 28-billion Us-dollars!
Not bad for one who was not born into any wealthy family or
surrounded by any powerful men and women to pull strings for him! He and some of
his friends were merely a bunch of Harvard campus-kids… And, what started as
some fun-activity to connect the campus kids has, today, become what it is… the
Behemoth called ‘Face book’!
The guy like me - and the guy in the remotest village of
not only my country but also of any country - knows the power and potential of
the idea that had come to Mark from thin air!
I am simply inspired, simply overawed by such a phenomenon.
Always!
“Thoughts are things!” This was how I had first learnt about
such a phenomenon from Napoleon Hill’s classic – ‘Think and Grow Rich’. I had,
instantly, grasped the meaning of that phrase… Yes, as the popular line goes, I
had realized: “Everything in this world is created twice… Once in the mind,
and, once outside!”
So, whatever is there ‘outside’, today - whatever is
visible, tangible and real… be it a pin, a paper-bag or a jet-plane… be it a
spoon, a ship, or a nuclear submarine… be it a school, high-rise tower or a
cathedral… be it a song, dance, book or an award ceremony… be it Democracy,
Autocracy, Communism, or Terrorism… be it a computer, cell-phone or internet… be
it Cloud, Skype or WhatsApp… be it Google, Wikipedia, YouTube or Face book… you
name it, and that is it… what has come from that nowhere space called – thin
air…
Wealth has come from this space…
Poverty has come from this space…
Peace has come from this space…
Destruction has come from this space…
Hope has come from this space…
Despair has come this space…
Yes, everything - that we see, touch and feel in this world
- has come from there… the thin air!
If thin air is the field from where all tangible things are
created, it is really a good-news… It is the greatest hope of mankind… In fact,
it is God’s greatest promise – the Endowment - He has left for us, His children…
The Field of Abundance… The Kingdom of Heaven…
The Invisible Field… The Thin Air…
And, through his Son, He has left for us the ‘key’, too:
"Ask and it shall be given to you;
seek and you shall find;
knock and the door shall be opened to you.”
Praise the Lord!
And, let’s not forget
to praise the Lords of this Land, alive or dead: Christ, Gandhi, Lincoln,
Edison, Ford, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Bachchan, Tendulkar… or, for
that matter, Arnab and Kejriwal… Yes, even Adolf Hitler!
Let’s praise
them all for reminding us never, ever to complain in life, that there is not
enough…
Go dig!
GERALD D’CUNHA
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