Erik Weihenmayer - Blind to Failure

As usual i am giving a reference to a old article. This one is 5 years old. This was a cover story about Erik Weihenmayer, sightless since he was 13, who climbed Mount Everest in 2001.

Erik Weihenmayer is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. He also completed the Seven Summits in September 2002. His story was covered in a Time article in June 2001 titled Blind Faith. Follow the link to read the article....

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000120-1,00.html

This article is a very inspirational article and I interpreted this article as below:

Most of the people may have a goal (short term, long term, whatever may be) and different people may have different capabilities/resources. But if we stick to our goals, we would definitely achieve it irrespective of the capabilities/resources that we had when the goal actually came to our mind.

But the mistakes that we tend to do normally,

1) We think that it would be difficult/impossible for me to achieve this goal because i am not capable of achieveing it, which is proven totally wrong by Erik.

2) Every day in life we tend to criticise and compare everything and try to choose. But there will always be a difference because we think that this what we are capable of, and when we see others doing more than what we think we are capable of.... there comes jealousness and it results in suffering. Finally we cry to god........saying, oh god, why did you give me less while you have given the other person more(in terms of money,love,job,property etc....).

All we need is the courage to hold on to our goal without comparing ourselves with anyone. Everyone has the same capabilities, but its our duty to realise it and achieve it.

Sounds philosophical.....

In Erik's case, it took 13 hrs to climb 20000 ft, which normally can be climbed in 7 hrs (average).

The time taken to achieve the goal doesn't really matter, what really matters is that the fight that we went through all the way to reach the goal and the state of happiness or peace that is felt when the goal is achieved, be it small or big.

By the way What is time???????.

Why do we have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in a hour and 24 hours in a day. Its just the way our astronomers and scientists have divided it, which we follow. Check this post to understand the history

Dont let time control you... Keep thinking.......

Learn, Understand, Experience and Teach

One Life

I am back from my trip abroad and ready to post......

i came across a very interesting web page while i was searching about evolution process. This page talks about evolution of the universe including human evolution.

Its difficult to go through it completely at one stretch, but this is for people who are interested in science and philosophy......... very rare combination to see (Einstein's...)

I have seen many people who believe in science, but they do not believe in religion or philosophy and vice versa. anyways here it goes....

http://www.onelife.com/index.html

lets continue our quest