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Sunday, October 5, 2008

What Makes Greatmen Famous

Eighth months ago I dropped my studies in college. I quit my dream. I felt like the whole world looking down at me and crushing me on the ground. There was no hope around to pursue what I want. i was totally discouraged and accept the embrace of failure. I was failed like a candle in the cold winter. Crawling, screaming... why? I was striving like those people who are successful. I dreamed too but why it happened to me?

Yeah I surrendered but not Thomas Alva Edison. Edison failed for how many thousand times but he did not complain. He did not stop. He knew that working hard and perseverance are the key to the realization of every dream. Not only working and dreaming but also determination and passion. Doing things without these elements would be worthless. That's what happened to Charles Babbage. Babbage was one of the great inventors but he did not able to finish any of his inventions. He was always starting and leaving what he had started forever.

After how many months I realized my fault. I was awakened. I blamed myself why i surrendered during those times when problems surrounded me. I want to be great and successful but how if i can't stand when trouble comes. NOW i see what really the problem in me. I am afraid. i have feared in me. Fear of trying, to stand alone and fear of losing. These weaknesses sunk me lower. These weaknesses made me sick. I lost my self confidence. This is terrible!

What makes great men famous? I ask myself this question. After a while the answer came to my mind. Their courage, determination, passion and hard work made them great. They are great problem solver of the world's trouble. They believe something and stand on it even the whole world criticized them. They don't stop working on it. Thus, problem made them famous. Great men are produced by great problems.

Sometimes we pity ourselves yet we don't know that there are people carrying heavier problem than what we have.

Friday, July 25, 2008

The World of Writers

International PEN, worldwide association of writers that includes poets, essayists, novelists, historians, critics, translators, editors, journalists, and screenwriters. The organization was founded in 1921 in London as a non-political, non-governmental organization committed to the craft and art of writing and a commitment to freedom of expression through the written word. The organization maintains 141 centers in 99 countries around the world.

Membership in PEN is open to qualified writers of all nationalities, races, and religions, and members must subscribe to the PEN charter. This charter states that the organization will work to promote friendship and goodwill among writers, to foster understanding through literature, and to dispel class, racial, and national hatreds. Members have included Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Alberto Moravia, Chinua Achebe, Susan Sontag, and Václav Havel, among others. International PEN is headed by an international president who is elected every three years.

Among the programs maintained by the organization are PEN's Writers in Prison Committee, based in London, which cooperates with human-rights organizations in obtaining and disseminating information about writers and journalists who have been harassed or imprisoned for expressing their views. The Committee for Translation and Linguistic Rights, based in Barcelona, Spain, encourages the translation of “small” languages and defends languages threatened with extinction. The Writers for Peace Committee, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, explores ways in which writers can further the cause of world peace. The Women Writers' Committee, based in New York City, promotes women's writing and publishing in developing countries.

International PEN holds an annual congress as well as regional conferences and symposia. It also publishes PEN International, a biannual literary magazine that also serves as a forum for the views of the organization.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Points To Grow and Satisfied

Human beings who strive to realize their full potential can not be concerned merely with the attainment of their personal goals. Fired with the will to help achieve a better world they have to think of the poor and deprived. They have to contribute for the betterment of human conditions.
The task demands an almost Godlike strength. Alone, you can do little, but there are others who are as genuinely concerned as you. Now is the time to offer yourself... Service to others will give you satisfaction and it is this feeling of satisfaction that would spell the word "success" for you.
But remember:
Wit and intelligence may bring you to high places and win the admiration of the many. Yet it is always imperative to use this talents to help uplift human and societal conditions. This should never be employed with/for self motives.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

There’s No Going Back

While the journey is getting tough, man likes to stop his pace or even go back and let the journey be just part of the forgotten dreams. Fear leads him to lose in the battle of survival. No man was ever great than he who fought fear and brings it into an end. Victory is in the hand of the soldier, which everyone relies on. Loser is nothing but just a part of judging the game.

Life is an aisle of choices, the flowing of events, which swear that there’s no home to go back. Life’s best friend is obstacle, and death it’s most unwelcome visitor. It is the saddest moment for those who know the real omen of existence. When sun rises, there’s life with it… you. And you are just falling dew that after a moment will dry and left nothing.

The plot of the story probably begins here and ends there. There’s no constant, and constant alone cannot exist. We are part of the many, but only the few of us belong to the changing world. The world is but a weird one which ceases not in rotating on the pivot of humanity, the jungle where everyone with his prowess has no choices but to undergo such intimidation of life across a thousand miles of his destiny.

Patience is a burning fuel to everyone. The root to sustain the briskness on every pace that we made, while courage as being destined plays the chromo sphere where motive resides. The things inside the cage of this pilgrim world are diamonds without its precious glitter where ironically many had bestowed their trust on such kind of burning disguise.

The problem lies not on the conflict per se, but in formulating decision. Any decision is somewhat came from the inner part of belief of the doer. The most critical and elusive one

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Love A Poisonous Substance

Maybe the oldest feeling in this world is love. Peolple love, people hurt. So why we love if we will get hurt in the end?
Love exists everywhere. But only God has love which is great and immeasurable.