It is indeed true that the best friend cum foe you have is yourself. More than anything else that shapes your deeds, it is you. Cringe for a factor to motivate and you may end up cringing unless of course you are fortunate enough to have people, positive vibes and most importantly the ever valuable ‘attitude’ (something just like success that is counted sweetest by those who are short of this rare commodity.).
During the period when I was grunting and groaning but importantly not working hard enough, in fact, not working at all for achieving a dream stature, I realized that I was one of the never ending mass of crowd that shows up everywhere to celebrate achievements and failures of sung and unsung heroes and villains but never wish to play the lead ever. It was not so much fun, I bet, to let go the essential rule that ‘hard work and discipline were the most important ingredients just like apple and sugar in an apple pie’. Besides now that I have had enough occasions being celebrated with a pale apple-less and sugar-less pie, I know that I have chosen myself to be a ‘laureate-de-frustratio’ (no such word/degree/honor exists.) and the only threat to it is the faint chance I may get distracted and go for a golden baked, sweet and naturally flavored apple pie some day …. Amen!!
