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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 542 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I have a story about life and where people end up in their journey.
There were two people who went exploring and they reached a swamp. Now, the first was a man of means, and so he called in for a helicopter and within a short period of time, he was on the other side; the crease on the pants of his Safari suit were intact. He even took some photographs while he was flying over. He was a man with an avid interest in the sciences, and he made a modest but significant contribution to the field of swamp study.
The second person, however, struggled on cross and foot. He got stuck, he got lost. It was so difficult. He went through the journey and he had to fend off poisonous snakes, other creatures, and all types of difficult challenges. 20 years later, he emerged. He was tired. He was marked by life, and he had a pronounced limp and the smell of the swamp in his skin. However, he went on to write two national best sellers, called Surviving in the Swamp Environment and the other, The Unknown Treasures of the Swamp. He even directed both of the movie adaptations, became the world’s foremost consultant for environmentalist groups and also assisted in rebuilding companies. Quite interesting, isn’t it?
You see, in life, some arrive at the journey endowed with resources: refined character, a wonderful personality, a genius mind, and they take a helicopter ride over the swamp of life. They do much good and they enrich all of our knowledge and inspire everyone with their bird’s-eye view of reality.
The others in life get stuck; they get lost. They have to struggle through the journey of the swamps, but they emerge from their decades of wandering and misadventure with knowledge, skills, and profits that far exceed any other experience.
So in your life, if you are ending up right now on the well-to-do side where you just fly over the swamps, consider yourself lucky. But if you find yourself on the other side struggling, faced with misadventures and challenges, in this case, you should truly consider yourself not lucky but luckier. This is what life is all about. We have to struggle, but the struggles make us better, stronger, wiser in everything that we do. We don’t ask to be tested. We don’t wish for those struggles or those challenges, but if they come, when they come, just realize that you can overcome them and you will be able to become much greater from it. I wish you the strength and the ability to see this at all times wherever you are in your life.
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