Thursday, August 25, 2011
Bold Struggles

Everyone possesses an incredible inherent potential within themselves which will erupt like the volcano when one is in the state of extreme desperation. In fact, most people’s inherent potentials are concealed and aren’t visible from outward appearance. Just like Mother Nature, her inherent potential lies between the sky and the earth.

　　
       It isn’t impossible for one to triumph over any problems one confronts from the exterior environment because within ourselves, we possess an amazing potential. When we slowly bring forth the potential within us, we are able to give full play to the creativity and latent potential within us. 

　　
I was greatly moved by an article on the newspaper which I’ve read.

In the article, it is said that one of Taiwan Compaq Company’s six top chiefs named Ho Wei Ling became a horse racing fan due to an incompetent horse. The horse is also a legendary horse in the horse racing industry.

This horse’s front leg was slightly crooked and has a disproportioned physique since birth, as a result, its owner deemed him as an incompetent horse. For that reason, it never received any training or special care and could only gallop in some small races earning a few hundred US Dollars in prize money. It had always been a loser for the first half of its life until the moment it met a connoisseur in horses.

It was the turning point of its life when his master found him a trainer. The jockey found the horse’s impetus to sprint but because it was neglected of care over a long period of time hence its weight is lighter than the average racing horses. Hence, at every competition it has to carry thirty pounds more weight of sand bags heavier than other horses to ensure fairness among the other racing horses. It not only is undefeatable due to its crooked front legs, its ripe age also isn’t a matter of concern.    

The most amazing thing about it is that it could still maintain its speed when manoeuvring. This could cause great detriment towards a racing horse and it is also the struggle of its limits but despite it all whenever it sprints, it looks nothing like a nineteen year old horse at its prime. People who fight to the last moment are those who will reach the destination of absolute happiness. As for this horse, it is its will to win which enables it to strive towards its goals free from inhibitions.

Despite its own physical defects, it doesn’t hamper its will and determination to win. Although its nose bled most of the time when racing, it won’t stop. It created America’s horse racing a legendary history. The horse as well as the three person related to it, which includes its owner, its jockey as well as its trainer, all reckoned that it’s a loser prior meeting it but instead, it created one miracle after another in every race. Even though it may face death during maneuvering but nevertheless, it still powered itself to the lead because victory is everything. Cowards who cannot assiduously assert themselves in their struggles are losers. As of the three person mentioned above as well as the horse, they are truly victors.

To struggle itself is happiness. Without struggles there will be no outcome. When there is no progress or improvement, there will be no joy. Without struggles, we won’t be able to temper our lives. A person who strives all out will have no dark cloud of regret in their hearts but a beautiful clear blue sky. Without struggles, one’s life is like the stagnant water, putting an end to one’s own growth, leaving no imprints of living but an idle life of gloom and failure.

Our life is an eternal struggle. The moment we stop to struggle, we will be caught in a life likened to the living ‘dead’. Whenever we confront an obstacle, would you choose to put all effort to overcome all sorts of difficulties to break free from the obstacles and barriers in our way or to skirt round difficulties? Perhaps what we are touched here is not its victory but its final burst of courage. Actually isn’t our life just as similar to that? Even if we have to fight with all our lives, we must never give in to defeat. 

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Written at 10:11 PM by Paper Pilot.