Someone said "Something"

Life's not been same for everyone who lived it. It gave different challenges to everyone, put everyone across a distinct situation which had to be dealt with according to the circumstances at that very moment. Now, they concluded their experiences and left for the world, some words of 'wisdom and greatness' which all (or at least the most of them) have unfortunately been accepted as universal rules.
* "Life is not a bed of roses"
Seriously taken!
Result: Life now seems to be too much of a difficult job and every calamity we're facing adds up to our view that 'life really is VERY difficult.
* "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I m possible"
Got it!
Result: Since there's nothing that we think is impossible, we start being stubborn about the things we take up. We start wasting our time and energy on one particular thing because 'someone' said that it's not 'impossible'. Because we have forgotten the concept of moving on to something else, something that actually is possible.
* "Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by the lack of meaning and purpose"
Okay!
Result: Here we go, cursing our own self, thinking that it is perhaps us and our visionless mind due to whom the things are getting 'unbearable', that there is no role of circumstances in all what's happening.
* "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful"
Ahan? Noted!
Result: We start being so fearless that we actually forget that this is a cruel world we live in. We take the fact, that not everyone gets successful in this world, for granted.

Those who spent their lives before us, had a different world in front of them, different kind of situations to cope up with. We, today, live in a completely changed world. In a world where things actually are impossible, where circumstances do make the things unbearable, where the fear of being unsuccessful is now no less rare than the failure itself. We need to see the world with respect to what it is now. Why to say that 'a great man said this'? Why not live an ideal life and be the 'great man'?

Illusion

To everything we see, there are many visions. To every one of those visions, there are certain limitations. And every one of those limitations opens a gate towards a stream of endless possibilities. The vision depicting reality being 'practical' is usually what shapes someone's way of doing things. Least do we care about a parallel vision of the same thing being seen. The vision which might lead us to a better idea, might teach us a better lesson, the picture presented by an 'Illusion'.
Maybe not an applicable solution but such an angle of thinking does become a food for thought. It might even make one more determined and confident. The reason is that an illusion presents before us, the same scenario we desire of in the best of our optimistic senses. The reality will definitely put one across numerous hurdles but a start well determined, precedes an end well done. And with all that hope taken out of one 'imaginary' pictures, hurdles don't stand a chance.
Humanity believes just in reality. Asking someone the reason for that; answer cones out to be, "Because this is what God wants us to face". But, it is also the same God who gave is the capability to think optimistically and it is He who shows us those illusions. If they really were meaningless, hell they would never have existed.

Just at the End of Road

From the people who are on way to something big, one hears words like "I'm just a day or two away from my target." Nobody ever says "Got just a couple of more challenges to face before I make it." On first view, they might seem to be two simple lines but they are actually the depiction of two different mentalities, two different types of people.
Latter is the picture of those who take every step if theirs, on the road to success, as a new milestone they achieve after many hardships. Former sketches those who utilise all their potential only to reach the destination and have their eyes 'Just at the end of Road'.
Success meets both; those who cover that distance by learning from every adversity they face as well as those who go running over it in order to get rid of it. Now where lies the difference? When one will look back, he'll see merely a deserted path. While the other, glimpsing back, will be looking at a long list of things he learnt.
Choice is ours. Either we be successful (just successful, actually) or we grab success and also carry some new and unmatched experiences up our sleeve.

Everyone is Special

"Hey Kid! How old are you?", she asked the boy sitting in the corner of street in peak winter, asking everyone to get their shoes polished from him for one rupee.
"I'm 12!", the boy replied with a curious and strange look in his eyes. Smiling, she inquired, "What happened? You don't like people asking about your age?" She was trying to be frank with that little boy. "Nobody ever asked me more than how much they had to pay", the boy said with tears trickling down his cheeks. She wrapped her jacket around him, put her hands on his shivering shoulders and said, "I actually wanted to Thank You for what you do. If you were not here, who would make people look so good?" Although it was no logic but it proved to be enough to console that innocent soul. The boy looked up with an element of happiness on his face. She gave him a smile and walked away saying, "You really are special."
Those two sentences of that lady did not take anything away from her. But yes, they gave a hope to that little boy. A hope that in the world of feelingless people, good people also exist.
Sometimes, only a word or an act of yours can give happiness to someone struck with aome serious complex. In today's cruel and selfish world where people are dying of hopelessness, if some words can make a difference, let's speak them out. Maybe they give someone, a hope to live.

Castle Of Glass

"Dreams are such a part of human life which can manipulate a person's feelings, emotions, opinions, aims and even the actions". There's nothing wrong if we dream of something and it sets for us, an aim that we'd do anything to achieve. Sounds good to hear. But do we really go by this? We dream, we make it the reason we work hard, the reason that we strive. And then we dream again, we set a newer and 'better' aim leaving the last one unachieved. With every one of these dreams which comes as a stone, we shatter the castle we had bulit- the 'Castle of Glass'.
Is just a 'better target' enough to let go of the previous dream? All that enthusiasm and zeal was just for none? Irony is that today, the answer to both these questions turns out to be a 'YES'. We have lost the element of firmness from ourselves.
This is but natural that human mind gets attracted towards every tempting parking place on the road to achieve something. In some cases, those deviations not only slow us down but they might even compel one to change his course completely. Result is that nothing is achieved in the end. Those having such a weak determination end up making themselves weak of hopelessness.
Beauty is; achieving an aim we dream of and then going for the next one. So that in the end we don't just have a malodorous pile of reasons to repent upon, not just a loathsome stack of incomplete stories but a collection of dazzling life-time experiences, a bundle of magnificent memories to cherish, the memories which would remind us of our sheer will and determination whenever we'd recall them in our successful future.