Tuesday, March 5, 2013

The 'measure'...


"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy" was astoundingly said by Mr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I often mull over deeply on what makes a person complete, and fully blossomed. Besides 'experience' nothing surfaces up to my mind (as my insights are very confined), that makes a person complete, and fully blossomed. Specifically, 'experiences' that tear a person down to the core / touch the core of who the individual is, (in terms of professional, personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual aspects) pave the way for growth. I have just been experiencing that. Has this dawning come to me from within? Nope...I am personally accountable, and indebted to both great and goofy human beings whom I encounter from every now and then. They bless me with those beads of experience that makes me grow from strength to strength in versatile avenues of my life. I am sure to magnify, cherish and share the best-ones of those beads with deserving others. But what do I do with ones, dumped on me by those 'goofy' guys when such 'experiences' are absolutely unsolicited, and should not fall on me? I have now learnt to step over those experiences and step on with the ultimate measure as suggested by Mr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this way, I have just not learnt to cope up with those beads of experience given by the 'goofy' guys rather tweaked my inner learning-curve to transmute such bad beads into manure and to be inure to the 'goofy'. I am glad that I have started to grow, with an ultimate measure for myself....