For everyone there can be a great period of joy and success happening. But a period of lull is also not avoidable. That is the testing period of a person. I think the best time to attack a person is when he is confused / stressed / mentally sick / when he is angry.
By my personal experience, I think during those lull period every person needs support. And that 'support' is very crucial. Some fall prey to other people who takes advantage and become masters of them. The best example are the "gurus"(so called gurus) who say they give salvation and peace to souls. You can see many big industrialists and many professionals falling pray seeking that "support"
This is a wonderful mail from my inbox. Dated somewhere around end of my college final year.
This email was written to me from my senior when I went through for a period of lull and when things were all out of my hand.
Hi Naresh,
It was nice to have that long conversation with you last night. Just want you to keep a few things in mind:
1. We have limited/no control of our environment - what we have control over is our performance and only excellence speaks in the long run.
2. What would be required is that you make sure you understand yourself first, then it'd be easier to understand the others .... what I mean by this is know the strengths and weaknesses (not a placement question!) - in other words, know the possible mistakes and flaws - let me illustrate this - say you know that you can do 98/100 things to be done right and there's 2/100 you do wrong - then it'd be easier to make sure you do not make these 2 mistakes rather than think of the 98 you can do right - in this way you never go wrong. If you make a mistake, 1 out of the 2 in 100 - then you still learn. You can make yourself 99/100 right .... I'm not confusing you with length nonsense, but think about it ... winners don't take the joy ride to the top, people introduce bumps on the road below and don't be surprised if they introduce the bump from above also!
3. I like eagles - for one reason - (I'm not speaking like a maniac poet ;-)) - do you know that mother eagles drop their offspring from great heights and see their little offspring scream as it goes crashing towards the ground? The mother catches the offspring before it hits the ground - it does this maybe 5 times, maybe 10 times, but the next time - the little offspring soars high on its wings!
4. I'm not sure if you'd like this example, but I like it - The Bible. Look at the life of Jesus - he was killed and humiliated by his own people (the Jews, not his disciples/believers). What did he do wrong? Nothing other than speak the truth and heal and bless people.
5. Reality now - keeping these and making one self strong is not at all easy. It can be traumatic. I still get disturbed and irregular heartbeats when someone knocks/bangs the door in the dark. But, the end result for us is that we come out a stronger person.
Please take whatever would be of use to you from this e-mail and discard the rest.
Pls do keep in touch.
I came across this mail today in my Inbox. Wow it gave me a great feeling that I do have good people who can "support" me.
Please friends if you are upset about something all you need is 3 good friends for support
