Day 12: Perseverance

The other night when I watched Flash of Genius and 10 Things I Hate About You they had a common theme: its perseverance. In Flash of Genius, Bob takes 12 years to take Ford Motor Company to court. During the 12 years everyone told him he didn't stand a chance to win. He knew that it was a huge hurdle. After the verdict for Bob for $10 million was read, he realized that his perseverance paid off. In 10 Things I Hate About You, one of the teenage boys has a crush on one of the popular girls. The movie was about the many ways he tried to go on a date with her. At the end of the movie, he ended up getting the girl.

I know these are only movies and anything goes. Your life is a movie. There are no second chances. You decide which direction your movies goes. There may be hurdles and obstacles in your way. It is set there to see how you overcome them. Some people take the obstacles as a negative and dwell on what has happened to them. They want other people to sympathize with them. Sorry I don't sympathize with them. I don't want to sound mean but they are the only ones that can control their destiny. I fall in the other category: where you don't have to sympathize with me. ;) I want to learn from my mistakes, hurdles and obstacles. I want to move forward in my life. These obstacles and hurdles may make me stumble on my way to my destination. But it will not stop me. Some hurdles will take a short time to recover and some hurdles will take longer. The important thing is, what have I learnt from the hurdle that made me stumble? Was it a life lesson? Was it a lesson on my personality? Was it a lesson on my friendships? I try to figure what the lesson was from the hurdle and move on. Through out my life I will encounter many hurdles and obstacles.

I guess the hurdles and obstacles make life interesting and exciting. You never know what is going to happen next. You can't fast forward your life to see what happens next. You can't rewind it to do it over again. Without these obstacles you will never learn your life lessons. You never know when your next obstacle will be.