You are defined by what you are learn when the world goes by without recognizing your existence. In other words, what you learn when nobody is watching :-)
This is important; it defines you!
When you were a baby and learned to crawl, stand up, wobble, walk, run, fall down, pick yourselves up... world was not paying attention to you (except your close family that is :-) )
When you started to learn, learn something, learn anyrhing, world didnt sit back and take note.
You kept learning any way.
Learning gave you understanding.
Understanding gave you strength to explore the bounaries and beyond, widening your horizon thereby.
Understanding gave you comfort (of having known something that you didnt know before).
Comfort gave you confidence to promise /announce 'Yes, I can!'.
World sits up and take note once you start walking the talk.
At some point, world gets so used to your accomplishments, it feels bored with you and moves onto the next new promise.
This loss of attention makes you nervous, pushes you outside your comfort zone.
What you do next, decides your destiny.
Are you gonna run for the world or gonna run inwards?
Remember, there was a time when you were busy learning. Learning with an intent to understand; not to get the attention of the outside world.
Stepping out into limelight, into adoration (of the world) is good but that wasn't your goal; in fact you never had any goal till then!
If the world noticed you all of a sudden, so be it.
If the world forgot you just like that, why bother (even to enquire)?
"
Sow a thought
Reap an action
Sow an action
Reap a habit.
Sow a habit
Reap a character
Sow a character
Reap a destiny.
"
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a wise man.
He knew life was not unidimensional, unifocused.
So he explored life, fearlessly, on his own terms.
He learned, he understood, he became comfortable with his knowledge and then he shared.
"In all my lectures," he wrote, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man".
Infinitude - infinite possibilities that are within the grasp of private men like you and me my friend.
A Dangerous Radical?
A National Icon?
The debate is still on.
R.W. Emerson wouldnt have cared!
I share today a seed that I hold dear in the cup of my palm, with you. You can be what you choose to be, regadless. Period.
Harvard Article on R.W. Emerson
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