“Excuse me; can you turn your father this side? Need to give
injection” Nurse asked when I was immersed in reading book. “Yeah sure” I
replied and helped my father to turn left side. She gave injection and went. I
took a while for me to turn him straight again. After that again, I started
reading which I was reading since the time I came here. Book was so
interesting, impact of emergency ward was not bothering me. Book took me to
philosophical ride, though my father has not taken any risk in his life, but
still lying on a bed in emergency ward. How can it be? I was not able to digest
the fact.
The Book, which I was reading was auto biography of an individual who took
risks at every step of his life and most of the time, came out in flying
colors. Till reading this book, I was also used to think on the lines that,
taking risks in life gives tension and pressure so we should not take risk.
Because of this always used to choose the safe way. Did not take much risks in
life, even while playing cricket also never took any risks, style of batting
was early Drawid’s.
No matter, whether we take risk in life or not, if something good or bad has to
happen, it will definitely happen. Best example is life of the person whose
auto biography I was reading, its none other than Richard Branson, founder of
Virgin Mobile, Virgin Music, Virgin Airlines and many more. When I started
reading his book, i couldn’t keep it down. Certainly all the incidents happened
throughout his life are hair raising acts. You will never imagine taking such
risks even in dream also. Whatever he used to get as profit, used to put
everything into new business and also used to get loan from banks. I guess, he
might be the only millionaire businessman to be in debt for such a long
duration and he might be only person to get such huge loans from so many
different banks daringly and with such confidence. He might be only
person to put himself into such huge risks of going all around the world in
helium hot balloon that too over pacific ocean, Atlantic ocean, Iran, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Himalaya. Can any one imagine?
Until and unless we listen to our gut feeling will not be able to take risk in
life. Until and unless we take risk in life, we will not be able to taste
success. We have to be adventurous to experience the thrill of life.
Are we listening to it?
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1 comment:
Thanks for Sharing Amar. It’s true we don’t take risk often. It’s so easy to continue to live every day the way we have lived yesterday. To change things takes effort and sometimes we give up. And the other aspect is if we don’t try we won’t know what’s on the other side. It’s only when we take risk and embrace change, we realize the new path is not so bad, it’s in fact fun. So, I’m gonna go and book myself a Ferrari. Take Risk :).
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