RIGHT TURN
Pursue goals with devotion
STAY FOCUSSED: Those who work with passion and interest are the most successful.
Explaining the difference between target and desire, I ask the class X children whom they love the most in this world. Almost unanimously they say “Mother”. I challenge them if they can pronounce loudly when Valentine’s Day is.
Before completion of my question the seminar hall vibrates “February 14th”.
Immediately I shoot the next question, “When is the Mother’s Day?”
Except small murmurings and smiles of defeat, the hall becomes silent. Students try to recollect “May eighth… eh… no... March 8th… No. That is Women’s Day I suppose.”
With this example I try to explain them that our targets are different from our desires. Some students object to my example.
They argue that with lot of advertisement around about Valentine’s Day, it is natural for anybody to remember it, compared to Mother’s Day.
I agree with them saying that this is what exactly I too mean. Mother is the most lovable person but we remember Valentine’s Day because it creates lot of ‘interest’.
Every student has targets like acquiring good marks, decent job, financial soundness, fame etc. But other interests that include five Cs (Chatting, Cinema, Cricket, Cell phone and Cable TV) lure them away from their targets.
Your interests should never distract you from your goals.
Distraction can be defined as diversity of direction with confusion and perplexity, leading to lack of concentration.
Shattering dreams
Parents from a middle class agriculture family in a remote village from the northern part of our State mortgaged everything to send their son to Germany for his graduation.
The 21-year-old boy loved an Indian girl there and committed suicide after coming to know that she was already in love with some other person.
Now after one year, his parents are working as labourers in their own lands. This real story tells us the adverse effects of desire that distracted the student from his goal.
People who work with passion and interest in their job are the most fortunate and successful in this world and vice versa.
While normal people dream, great people wake up to make their dreams a reality.
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a desire beating at the door of our hearts as we travel in the direction of our distant goal,” said Helen Keller.
YANDAMOORI VEERENDRANATH
Yandamoori @hotmail.com
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