30th June 2010
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
According to me fate has a very little role to play in our life. It is just one page in our book called life and we should believe that one page cannot decide our life. There are many things that affect our life and one such important thing is the content and the quality of our thinking process. Our mind is an amazing thing and it controls our entire life. The way we used our mind so far has shaped our life, and will continue to shape our life.
We may be facing an event which is totally outside our span of control. We can call this as fate. But how we respond and react to it is not fate. It is how we use our mind. Take the life of people whose fate took them through worst challenges in their life. Consider the life of Helen Keller. It was her fate to have been born with such a physical disability. But she did not allow her fate to decide the quality of her life. She allowed her mind to take charge.
So is the case of Lance Armstrong, the seven times winner of Tour de France, after he was diagnosed to have cancer. He did not allow his fate to decide what he wanted to be in life. Take the case of Mark Inglis, the world's first double amputee to climb
Fate may place a stone on our path, but our mind should decide whether to take that as a stepping stone or a stumbling block!
N C Sridharan
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