The Fallen Tree!

We all know that a picture is worth thousand words. Starting this article with the picture here which has a lot to say.

Life throws lot of surprises to us. Some makes us happy; some makes us wise. We want to celebrate life every day & we constantly hope that every year should be better than the previous one.

We started 2020 with celebrating the end of 2019, a difficult Global year & hoping 2020 will be a great year but the year 2020 was tougher & bought the world to a stand still moment. The global pandemic had a severe impact on many Industries globally. We prayed for a better 2021, now that we are in the middle of the year 2021 and yet few Industries & People are still struggling to rise back.

The two permanent elements of every one’s life are Struggle & Hope. As long as we live, we will have both. Many people feel that they are the one struggling the most while others are lucky but if we were to trade our life struggle with others, we will realize every one has the same story somehow. Each one is fighting a battle which others are not aware of.

Time can be a tough master & we all have been struggling at various stage of our lives, feeling defeated, alone & filled with fear & helplessness. The darkness in our life seem to stay longer as compared to the sunnier days.

When Nature goes wild with storm, it can uproot the trees in the jungle & if we were to compare people with trees, over the last 1.5 year since the pandemic hit us, we have seen many such strong trees collapsing, some trees lost their family & loved ones, some lost the source of income through either business shut down or job loss. Some were trapped alone away from family. The time was tough, social media & news made it even worse I believe.

The struggle was hard, some collapsed & some continue to struggle. But the Hope that tomorrow will be better exists in each one of us.

Look at the other picture now which is also worth a thousand words.

This picture tells us what happens when we don’t give up. Not every collapsed tree gives up. Some grew back. They fought the odds and continue to fight the battle. During the last 1.5 year, there were so many people who fought the odds and grew up like the trees with strong roots.

The strength to grow back up comes to us when we start looking at what we can achieve instead of looking at what we cannot do in life. Life is an excellent teacher to those who want to learn and one such lesson during crisis is when we realize what we are capable of doing!

When we rise after we fall, we become a totally different person, a person much wiser & stronger. This Pandemic has created some very strong people who never realized their potential before.

As the saying goes, “Opportunities lies in middle of adversity.”

We saw some people break the barrier and not just made their life better but also made other people’s life meaningful. People started working in domains they never worked, the same social media is flooded with stories of people who beat the odd and are rising. There are people who helped others fight back & stand back up.

These are the people who proved,

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful." -- Mark Victor Hansen

While a lot of people continued to blame everything, some of them were focused on rising back up. Yes, Life is tough, the current time is tougher, but nothing lasts forever. Remember the moments where you have overcome those difficult moments which you felt you could not.

Believe in yourself & your loved ones! Each one of us is capable to handle anything. Life will always keep testing us before it gives us what we really deserve. It’s the heat & pressure that creates the diamond out of coal.

It doesn’t matter how many times you fall, as long as you continue to get up, You will win one day!! Have faith in your God & self & you will see miracles happening. It happened to me last month!

This is your moment! Live, Laugh, Smile, Cry, Love in this moment. We cannot control anything else except what we can do this moment.

Once again, I am thankful to every person for their love and support. My second life is my inspiration to bounce back despite many failures before.

Do share your thoughts, your story & let me & others learn from you. Thank you for reading this article. Have a great day ahead!

 "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." -- Thomas Jefferson