Lessons Learnt From Saina Nehwal
I only consider those who live with a passion in life to achieve something live their life to the fullest. We all have only one fruitful life, we agree with that unconditionally. Don’t we? That one life is meant to be lived to the fullest in achieving whatever we desire to become. Nothing is impossible for those who have perseverance and do a lot of homework to achieve their dreams. Perseverance and hard work are the key mantras in following our heart to achieve what we desire to become.
Saina Nehwal became the first Indian Women’s Single to scale up to the historical World No.1 Ranking. Do you know her age? She is gorgeous 28. In this era of sexual harassment and sexual abuse to women circling around every town in India, she has become the PRIDE of India. Let all the male counterparts not view women anymore as just mere sexual objects; women are more beyond just that. They have their heart. They have their dreams. They have their ambition. They have their OWN life. They have their own goals just like any other man. Her twelve year of hard work and consistency has finally kissed her with laurels. In those twelve years, she was selfish. She loved her passion. Women are stronger than men mentally if not physically.
If she were once doubtful or resistant to play because she is a GIRL or had her parents thought like that, she would have not come so far. Would she? One has to have total faith in themselves. One has to surrender so benevolently to their passion. ”I want to be the best. It’s not about the ranking, it’s about being consistent” says the 25-year old very proudly after having proved the same.
If something is your passion, you have to be selfish in achieving it. If something is your passion you have to breathe with it. Selfish in the sense you should not care about others criticism. Out of envy they criticize, they gain pleasure by seeing others in pain. Cut off all those Sadistic crudes around you. They benefit nothing for you. They are just blatant people who have no other chores other than to feed rubbish things in a healthy mind.
It all starts with a tiny dot to achieve something the size of a mammoth.
Saina Nehwal would have once been playing in the backyard of her house with her friends. A tiny dot of her play has now taken her around to the World №1 Rank.
If she or her parents had either cared about marriage, childbirth, parents, money, job, relatives or about her safety, she would have not come so far. It is her faith in her that did all the magic. Her father is very proud about his Golden daughter now; “This is a proud moment for any parent. Today, I can’t believe she has achieved such a distinction. As a child, she was frail but it is all God’s will that she was spotted by the late Govardhan and SM Arif. They felt Saina had the talent to become a good player. For me, taking her to the Lal Bahadur Stadium, which was 20 km away, was one of the most enduring experiences. We are from a middle-class family and our focus was on giving good education to Saina. Destiny proved otherwise.
Encouraged by her growing interest and quick results, I had to make a decision in my life. I invested all my savings in her. It was a very difficult phase when we were struggling financially. I had to withdraw my provident fund and, of course, the office helped me. At times, we had to go without food. But I never gave up. I thought she was destined to bring glory to the country. Today, my daughter has given me a car, a house, and more importantly fame. I’m proud of her. Daughters are real gold,” he said.
We win or lose doesn’t matter, what matters most is whether have we tried something in our life? Have we followed our heart? Have we followed our destiny for which we came into existence in this World? The answers to these questions in itself will keep us satisfied until we die and beyond our death.
I don’t want anyone to desire to become №1 in the world. I want every one of you who read this article to try to find their calling and pursue the same, no matter how much ever you feel doubtful about it. To find and pursue our inner calling is the first greatest achievement it can be. With this satisfaction of having found our calling and tried to achieve at least a small part of it, one can reach the heavens peacefully, instead of living a life full of regrets for not having taken any steps till the end.
You take your office or relatives or college or whatever place for example. We can shoot only a few heads who have a real passion to do something with their life or who have found their inner calling. Among the few, only an elite percentage of the people would have taken their calling seriously and would be ready to follow their calling. Isn’t it?
Why is that most people don’t follow their hearts though they have talents?
The answer is as simple as possible. Fear of losing. They fear if they would be a failure. They fear their decisions. They fear other people’s criticism. They want to see perfectionism in whatever they do. They do not want to take risks.
Everyone loses at one point or the other in life. Fear and losing are inevitable. Why is that most people don’t understand this? If we aim for perfection, we can’t achieve anything. Can we? We should be ready to commit as many mistakes as possible at the start to achieve that so-called ‘perfectionism’. They lack the guts to follow their calling, but that is the only ladder to achieve success one day or the other.
Success doesn’t come overnight. It comes to those who committed a hell lot of mistakes, experienced the underworld of pain, learned from their past failures, faced such horrible things like Failure but didn’t give up at the face of it.
“Twenty years from now, you will regret the things that you didn’t accomplish. So, throw away all the laziness, try to learn, act, and run with all the energy you can today! It’s not too late to start over again!
