The Power to Perform

I have always believed in some things...

1. Everything happens in life for a reason.
2. "sayings" or "Pazha mozhi" are words of wisdom gained through experience.
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Everything happens for a reason...even the Tsunami, which was not even of interest to geography teachers in India (whom I know taught me about trade winds, cyclones, monsoons, earthquakes etc). "Katradhu kai mann alavu, kalladhadhu ulagalavu..". Its just a nature's way of getting the balance right...Land re-organizes itself once in a while (like when our parents scold us to organize the things in our rooms). So, is our earth to blame? I would say its the nature's way of making sure the birth rate and death rate are consistent to what is optimal for sustenance. Ofcourse, its sad as a human to see all those lives being lost...

Some things to note from the tsunami...Life, death, compassion, collaboration are universal, regardless of religion, cast, creed, wealth or power.

Another such saying is that "When the going gets tough, the tough gets going". This is what this note is about.

When I thought about how, on the backdrop of the infamous "wall of water", the people themselves manage to overcome this natural disaster and literally start their life afresh. I purposefully delayed my thought process till after the cry and hue about the disaster has disappeared from the newspapers, cos sadly, public interest is like amnesia...doesnt last long..Ofcourse, the reason behind that is who would want to think and read about any bad news over and over again?

Stories emerge as to how a man lived 8 days on a tree bark drinking rain water and eating leaves and so on...success stories to inspire people and give them hope...

But what is that, that actually makes the difference....what is the similarity between a tsunami survivor and a marathon runner or a olympic gold medalist or a scientist trying to find out whether we can live on Mars and Titan? What is that we all have but only some manage to make use of, effectively?

Will Power...thats the power to perform. People always talk about it in motivational lessons, but I never really understood what is that exactly, as I always viewed it as something external that I can "acquire" through some techniques. But somewhere down the line, I realised that its the mind that controls our body, and it can make the body do seemingly impossible things, if you really want it to. People say nothing is impossible, because the mind makes it possible. "If you think you can, if you think you cant, you cant". You might think the body has limitations, it will become tired n stuff. Yes, the body has physical limitations, but the mind can really push those limits by a large extent. But the body can really only do something when the mind agrees to it. Do u think its impossible for u to stay awake for one whole week? Do you think its impossible for you to run a marathon? Do you think its impossible for you to become as rich as Bill Gates? It can all be done...

All these seem abstract, but in the context of the tsunami, people really think they can come up and live a life, even after they have lost all their near and dear and whtever they own. Because their minds have been convinced that the worst is over and that they can really make a living out of it. Each one of them have an amazing amount of will power.

I guess its dragging a bit too long, and I am getting hungry, so I will end this by saying that Everyone has will power, some use it lesser, some use it more....lets make things better by making knowing ourselves better and making use of whats inside and what we are in control of.

My grievances for the deceased and salutations for the survivors.

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