Epidemic UncontrollableWritten by Dony Peter
Today, as I write this, I am actually being a contradiction. In being myself, in doing what I do and mainly writing what I write. I was asking myself, as to, what was greatest plague that strikes humanity in 21st century and I found that its not AIDS nor any other Virus infected disease.It is rather a human virus. Yes a disease, root of which are humans. In a world characterized by breakthrough innovations, advancements at speed of thought, we are slow in combatting this disease. And truth is, it is crippling us, Human Race. What I am talking about, trying to describe, is infact greatest disease ever discovered, that which Mother Teresa of Calcutta, so rightly put, "Indifference". In a world where one is always challenged to outperform others to exist, one can but wonder whether indifference is really inevitable? One has to look after oneself, and in that process, one might be a little bit indifferent to others. But how much is little? We squirm & squirt when we see graphic images of atrocities in media, and next moment we are looking for 'more news'. We are slowly becoming immune to pain of others, and people are increasingly becoming just statistics. So what if 30 people are blown up in Iraq, there's supposed to be a war there, right? And about thousands dying of starvation in Africa, well that's UN's problem. Too much Bureaucracy. I recently watched a movie 'Beyond Borders', a very realistic portrayal of relief workers around world. As movie progressed, I went through a gamut of emotions, from pain to sadness to grief to anger. And I was incensed 'cause nobody was doing anything. The sad fact however is, all those feelings lasted for 48 hours only. Two days and I had gotten over movie. Life was back to normal. Coming back to what i started out with, I am contradicting myself....Big Time.
| | Finding Success in FailureWritten by Marilyn J. Tellez, M.A.
Finding Success in Failure This title sounds contradictory and phony. It is a contrarian kind of word, but it is not phony! No matter how hard we try in work or in business to keep from making mistakes or failing at something, we will have failures. Isn't it better to look at a business/work failure in terms of moving towards eventual success, rather than flail around with oneself because success is not instan- taneous? How we look at failure is puzzling. We know that a failure is an event that will not last for- ever, but somehow we have a perfectionistic attitude that it is permanent. How to get around this "I won't fail attitude"?
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