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Are you living your own life or your life has become a copy-paste version? Just think and analyse. Anyway, why copy others blindly and why get swayed by what others say about you and have either a sense of false ego or self-pity? Instead, go to the mirror and look for yourself and give yourself a big smile whenever you can. Because, who knows about you and your immense potential better than you. Enjoy what Swami Vivekananda says, “Talk to yourself at least once every day, otherwise you will miss meeting an excellent person in this world.”
It is interesting and very pleasing to know that you are also a unique individual in the whole universe among the 8000 million people. Not only this amount of uniqueness you command, but also as per the medical facts, you can’t have another ‘YOU' even among 3 lac billion people. Isn't it quite unique and amazing? Then, why not do what you know and decide, to the best of your judgement, is right. After all, people will say something whatever you do. Normally people react this way.
Just think for a moment about Subhas Chandra Bose or Bal Gangadhar Tilak or Nelson Mandela or Albert Einstein or Thomas Alva Edison or Jagadish Chandra Bose or any other great person of the world and browse through their book of life. You will be amazed to know about their unique personality and their incredible achievements despite many challenges.
Let us take the example of Bharat Ratna Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, popularly known as C.V. Raman – an acclaimed physicist and the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. Raman was born in Tiruchirappalli of Tamil Nadu on 7th November, 1888. His father was a lecturer of mathematics and physics. Young Raman was extremely curious and meritorious. He did his B.A in Physics from Presidency College, Madras securing the gold medal. After two years he secured his M.A degree in physics with distinction. During his post-graduation itself, Raman’s first research paper was published in the renowned international journal named “Philosophical Magazine”. He was only 18 years old then. Raman joined the Indian Finance Service in 1907 and was posted in Calcutta. Being a passionate researcher, he carried on his research activity at IACS (Indian Association for Cultivation of Science) besides performing his duties nicely as a government officer. His research was focussed on optics and acoustics. Raman started getting recognition soon for his research work. He resigned from his prestigious government job in 1917 to join as the Professor of Physics in a famous college of Calcutta University. He excelled further in his new role and in 1922 his paper on “Molecular Diffraction of Light” was published which actually laid the foundation of his path breaking discovery. In 1926 he established the “Indian Journal of Physics” with a noble aim to develop scientific publishing in the country. His discovery, widely known as “Raman Effect”, in 1928 finally earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics. Notwithstanding the historic achievement, he continued his teaching and research journey. He moved to Bangalore in 1933 as the Head of Physics Department at IISC (Indian Institute of Science). There too, in his own unique way, Raman not only gave a new dimension to research programs, but also mentored persons like Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhabha – the two great scientists of the future. He also founded IAS (Indian Academy of Science) in 1934 and RRI (Raman Research Institute) in 1948. He continued his research work in RRI till 21st November,1970 – the last day of his life. Truly unique and inspiring!
Precisely speaking, the
biographies of all great persons make you realise that every one of them lived
their own life in their own way and had their unique identity. True, it is
neither very easy nor so difficult to live as you think right for you. But for
that to happen, you must follow some value system in your life. Finally, here
are nine points for you to think over and act sincerely: Think loudly every day
that you are born with divinity; You are a potential high performer; Love
yourself in both prosperity and adversity; Know your strength to consolidate
and weakness to diminish; Do the right thing passionately right away; Stop
blaming others for your own mistakes; Thank the Almighty, parents, and teachers
for their blessings; Try to live with nature; Have passion for doing something
good for the have-nots.
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