Saturday, September 22, 2007

A baby's birth ...

This morning as I read the papers, I saw a photo of a woman lying at the foot of a housing block, with paramedics and by-standers, all providing assistance to a pregnant woman waiting to give birth. Waiting is the wrong word, its more like rushing to give birth as she could wait no longer. A baby was born, all in the sight of onlookers from the apartment windows of the housing blocks around. A celebration of life.

This article prompted me to think a little about one's life. How long can one sit and wait for things to happen? For this instance, an impatient baby wanting so much to come out of the womb to enjoy the gift of life. The baby boy had to fight with his mother for what he wanted, he fought so hard to win what he had longed for - birth.

His mother on the other hand had surely wanted to deliver the baby only in the comforting hands of doctors and nurses in a hospital and not anywhere else. I could just imagine the struggle the mother had with the baby. Both hearts were likely corresponding and pleading with each other. One needed more time so that she can be prepared while the other persisted in having his ways of coming into life.

Sometimes don't you think we lack the courage the baby had shown us? The baby did not sit in the womb and wait for the moment of birth but rather the baby fought his way out despite endless resistance from the mother,believing its not the right time just yet. I am sure the mother placed every effort to withstand the pressure from the baby but failed. The baby used all his might, strength and determination to get what he wanted - out.

In everyone of us, there is this hidden might, strength and determination. These elements are inborn. We carry them wherever we go, whatever we do or plan to do. Its only a question of how we unleash that desire within us. How we always try to subdue the inner strength - choosing to believe in only our limits of what we can do and not choosing to believe that there is so much more we can do- our might, strength and determination level is limitless.

Perhaps the next time you want to achieve something, think first of this baby and get inspired by his actions of might, strength and determination. We too can do it if we attempted to, if only we really want to but somehow theories are rather simply said (or written) . To do it takes a lot more but you and I should try anyhow.

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