We are what we think

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MOIN UDDIN

KATHMANDU, May 28: There are thousands of things that happen around us almost every-time. We tend to think many things regarding career, job, education, relationship and so on, hence we mess up thinking too many stuffs at a single time. We are what we think and to prove this once Swami Vivekananda had said "Whatever you think, that you´ll be. If you think yourself weak, weak you´ll be; if you think yourself strong, strong you´ll be." This statement has great meaning and has a huge impact on me. We most of the time knowingly or unknowingly decide who we are going to be. Those who understand this early, they are the ones who´ll reap most of the fruits in their life.I remember an incident which occurred in our first day of commerce class. We all know what happens in the first day of class. We went through our brief self introduction.
         Five teachers of different subjects walked in, almost in every 45 minutes. We introduced ourselves and almost every teacher told that their subject is very tough and every student should study hard to secure good marks. It was in third lecture class that Economics teacher walked in and as per the drill everyone introduced themselves and after 15th student, the next student gave his introduction like others but he said that he had never studied Economics in his school life. The teacher to this statement remarked, “Oh so sad! It is going to be very tough for you as Economics is a difficult subject and you have to be good in Mathematics and drawing figures. And as you know if you fail in one subject you fail the whole year in this institute.” From the next day, classes started normally and almost after seven months, it was time to appear for board exams and after four months the results were announced. To our surprise the same student who had confessed of never studying Economics secured 90 percent in the subject along with good marks in
other subjects too. When asked how he did it, he said, “I wanted to do my best in Economics and simply worked towards it. No challenge can be big enough to stop me from doing it.”
         If we start sparing some of our time from our busy life and to start thinking it seriously than we find that most people today are what they always wanted to be whether painters, models, actress, teachers, doctors, video jockeys, radio jockeys, environmentalist, writer. They are there because from their early onsciousness that is where they wanted to be.There are certain things to keep in mind in order to achieve what we want. First we need to manage ourselves before we can manage others and have clarity in our goal.
Having faith and belied in self is as important as the inner desire and zeal to achieve the goal. Willingness to work hard and acceptance of weaknesses and failures and striving to correct it is as important as strong determination and will power to overcome all the challenges. The list can go long but these are some of the basic thing, if we keep on working on it than for sure, very soon we´ll achieve what we´ve always
strive for.

The writer is a student of Bachelor in Business Studies at Nepal Commerce Campus.
(Published on May 29, 2012, Tuesday at the newspaper, REPUBLICA)