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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 419 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I recently read a story about a man whose name was Alvarenga. He was a 37-year old fisherman and working in Mexico. On November 18, 2012, he decided that he was going to go out to the sea and go fishing. What he did not know is that there was a storm coming which would change his life forever, and not only that, his friend who went with him would never come back. Throughout the tumultuous waves and tremendous hardship that he went through, this trip lasted 438 days. It wasn’t until January 30th, 2014 that he finally came home.
Now, it was a cold rain on that day and he knew, possibly, that this may be a venture which would, at the end of his life, be the one that would change his ways and completely alter his thinking.
When he came to the shore and the last time that he actually got off this boat, he was left face down on the beach, and he said that he held a handful of sand in his hand as though it was treasure. He was discovered by a lone cop, somebody that found him in an island, and with him, although he was thousands of miles away from where he should have been, he was able to recover and go back to his life. Alvarenga had completed one of the most remarkable voyages in the history of seafaring. He didn’t navigate or sail, or row, or even paddled; he just drifted. In order to alter his course he was forced to build a world of survival and he was extremely unlucky, terribly fortunate at the same time, and he finally got home. This is what life is all about. His lasted 438 days. Alvarenga may basically, the difficulties all compacted into one portion of his life. We each go through struggles, troubles, challenges, circumstances, and sometimes, very difficult tests, but just like he overcame them, you can overcome them and let it be a lesson for good.
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