Choose to be
“In the end, we are all the sum total of our actions. Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to meet the whim of the moment. Like the markings on wood which are ingrained in the very heart of the tree, character requires time and nurture for growth and development.
…day by day, we write our own destiny; for inexorably we become what we do. This, I believe, is the supreme logic and law of life. “ - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
In retrospect, the above statement isn’t totally new. But the statement, “Character requires time and nurture for growth and development” means so much in so little words.
Think about it from another dimension.
Eat juicing oily food and lays chips, ice creams, drink gallons of caffenie & alchohol, gulp kilos of butter sweets every day; the end result is inevitable. Junk In; We will make a junk out of ourselves. Choose to eat carefully, we will make a healthy human out of ourselves.
The world is full of junk today. We breath, see, hear, talk, feel and fully live in more junk than ever before. It has come to a point where we are completely lost that it is virtually impossible to identify what is not a junk. If parents are in the state of plight, imagine children and their future. Without writing a story out of it : ( which a million others have already! ) :
Choose what you see, read and most importantly, how you understand and react to what you see & read.
Choose very carefully what you say & hear. Even before the rest of world listens to us, our subconscious is. Like it or not, we are giving hints to our subconscious mind about our future by our words and actions.
Choose how you spend your time and how you feel about those actions. Fly a kite, Take a swim in a lake, Walk up a hill, Talk about colors to a blind child, Write a peom and read it to none, Escape from the mechanics of the modern world….Laugh as much as you can and love yourself piously.
Just being yourself, being happy and being a human intself is an accompolishment. Anything else we might do beyond that is more needed for the rest of the world than ourselves.
[ - My interpretation of the inspirations I got from the audio-version of the book : "Seeds of Greatness" by Denis Waitley - which I highly recommend to everyone (Most libraries in US will have a audio copy). ]