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The Little Push

You can listen and smile if someone poetically says that the cyclones, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, breezes and so on are just the giant nature’s way of expressing its moods like its anger, its calmness or just the reactions from its body. Of course, no harm in visualising the nature as an infinitely vast living thing and we are like monads playing somewhere on it. Well, that is just a fantasy.
I feel this is real, that is, all our inventions as well as the way of living are greatly influenced and copied from the nature either directly or indirectly - fire, wheels, explosives… as well as life styles - all. Well, it is okay, you don’t have to agree with me. But I can tell you something more wonderful, more delightful which you yourself can observe and believe. 

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Here it is: the best of life, the life, can be achieved only after breaking something that feels impossible to break at first. Maybe, it is the Designer’s game. Surprisingly, we are given enough power to break it. The goal is to find and realise and wait and show the world its enormousness. The usuals, how the seed breaks the seed coat and becomes a huge tree, how the caterpillar becomes the beautiful butterfly. Perhaps we are all born to do transformations that is called life, our own life. The rest is nothing.
Oftentimes, rather than doing what we desire, we move to something else just because there are escapes available. No, don’t do that. Do that little magical push, like the seed, like the caterpillar. Because there is a real divine value in it.
Here is a lovely quote from Eddie Arcaro - Master of Triple Crown, who lost his first 250 races as a jockey before going on to win 17 Triple Crown races and 554 stakes races. 
“You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.”

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