What motivates you?

Pleasure? Posh things? Praise? Power? All good! But, how about “Pain”?
 
If there would be an everlasting impact and all-pervading transformation in you; that must have been through “pain” only.
 
At times, some of us feel like exploding in tears, that too in private; wondering whether we have pain in life or life in pain, which using Set language can be understood as life containing pain, and pain containing life respectively.
 
I look up to Ms. Keerthana from Tamil Nadu, India as a role model to emulate, like a very few around us.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kws0LfSziKg

 
Losing her mother when she was a 10 days old baby, losing her father when studying Grade 10, and getting her leg completely amputated due to life threatening Cancer during her II year Nursing Course; she has endured great pain and suffering. 
 
Few minutes’ news clip about her inner-strength, is worth listening to, and getting inspired.
 
Next time, let us embrace pain and suffering if we were to endure them while molding ourselves out, and building ourselves from the ground up.
 
What pain of yours, has motivated you to excel?