Wednesday, August 22, 2007
All successful daring starts from within.
For many of us, dare is a word that conjures up childhood power
struggles that didn't end well. "I dare you to climb the tree, jump
the river, try to fly......" If we met the challenge, we ended up doing
things we didn't really want to do and often got hurt in the process.
If we didn't meet the challenge, we were probably taunted for being
stupid or cowardly and probably felt ourselves to be both.
Childhood dares give way to their adult counterparts, often couched
in terms of the society we live in's expectations from us. Examples
of such expectations are, 'A man should not show his gentle feelings',
'A woman's place is in the home'. That is what society thinks is good
for men and women but what if there are some men who think
expressing their gentle feelings is good since it enables intimacy
in their love relationship. And what if there are women who are so
brainy and who think that confining those brains to a home will be a
total waste. For such men and women doing what the society expect
them to do is likely to get the same result as our childhood dares.
Our thoughts, feelings and soul-searching experiences if we really
listen to them and not what society wants us to do will give us an
internal conviction that urges us to dare do what we really want to
do. Such daring that comes from within ourselves always results
in success.
Visionaries have that attribute of daring themselves to be themselves.
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