Secret Recipe for a Success

One of my favorite movies is `Kung Fu Panda'. Okay, I got to admit it; not until five half views, I fell in love with this movie. In all those half views it started with flying snake, doing tough marshal art stunts by a tiger and a panda whose father was a duck, a tortoise who stays on top of the stick so and so. Honestly speaking,  I just did not like flying animals doing all the marshal art stunts. 

After those initial five half views, I finally saw the whole picture and then I truly got the clear picture. It has a lesson of a lifetime. 

The lessons of this picture is, there is no secret recipe for a success, any body can make it in life just like those animals flaunting their marshal art skill and stunts. If there is no one's name written there, it may be you who is meant to do the unthinkable and remember there is nobody's picture on the mirror. You stand in front of it and you are the one. The other one is : some well experience eyes always see potential in you and some equally experienced eyes always doubt in your true potential. Trust yourself and believe in you, even if; nobody believes in you.

There are people who hold on some baseless things, like success or failure are written on your hand long before you are born and your family and its background helps you to be where you want to be.  At times, it may be true but the end result is you will be there where you want to be and where you dream to be. If you don't dream your dream, it never becomes true and then how come you ever live to tell it to your children and grand children I lived my dream life.

Let me give you one common example of real life. Bobby Deol & Kangana Ranaut is a known name in Bollywood. Bobby has a family who are from movie industry and yes he did have some movie due to his family back ground and okay due to his youthful look also. And then there is Kangana Ranaut from Himanchal Pradesh. She comes from very middle class family with no link in Bollywood. Kangana Ranaut gave some blockbuster movie like Gangster, Lamhe, Fashion, Queen and once upon a time in Mumbai to Bollywood. I can't remember which one was Bobby's block buster movie, can you remember one ?

When I am writing this, I remember one story from the book 'You Can Win' about a balloon seller; who would let go colorful balloons in the sky every time there was sort of sales and every time after seeing flying balloons in the sky more children came to buy it, more than his expectations. One day, when he was letting lose some colorful balloons from his hands, mainly red, blue, green and orange in the sky, he got his shirt pulled by one tiny colored boy. Who wanted to ask him a question "will it fly if the color of balloon is black ?" Then the seller told him "of course, it will; a balloon flies not because what's on the outside but because what's in the inside of it."

When some body believes in you, and say you can do this, just believe him/her and most importantly believe in yourself. Mirror has tremendous power in it, look into the mirror and say you can do it and trust yourself.

Note : This post has already been published in  Shades of Life in April 2011.

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