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This is a speech I wrote for extempore. I guess I got a good topic!
This is a speech I wrote for extempore. I guess I got a good topic!
Ding... And
another day is done. A day which otherwise could have been spent well. I
could’ve finished the chores at hand but Alas! I woke up at dawn to the tunes
of the singing birds watching the radiance of the orange globe. And the
afternoon...it was spent leisurely lolling on the sofa in the welcoming arms of
my cool room. The evening... Ah! How I watched the setting sun playing with the
merry waves. And...and I was back to the pavilion planning to push my work to
another tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
The Oxford
dictionary defines tomorrow as ‘the day after today’ but I think it ought to
step beyond its realms to encompass my definition of tomorrow, i.e. ‘the day
after today which never comes’.
The moment to
act is now, just now. The key to any achievement is to start using the present.
One should have the three point mantra of the Ps on the finger tips i.e., Plan,
Prepare and Proceed. One should not wait for that ‘sudden enlightenment’ or
‘inspiration’ that is not just going to come. Who amongst us (Indians) is so
ignorant as to not have heard the story of the little Gopi and his famous five
minutes? He kept postponing his work and we all know he did not get anything.
Many a great
men have achieved big in their field because they kept at their work with a
regularity which demanded tremendous discipline. Here I would cite the example
of Mr. Fogg, the central character of ‘Around the world in eighty days’. He was
very regular in his work and so he did achieve big!
Let’s not
just be hearers, let’s be doers as well. As far as the question of hearing and
doing arises, I trust the youth of the nation. I trust that exquisite
magnificence of those eyes, the majesty in that voice and the power in those
hands that dye the nation white midst shades of the dim and ugly black and the
obscure muddled grey. I trust that they will not leave things for tomorrow.
They will act or rather they are acting...
I would like
to close by quoting Eleanor Nightingale "What the mind attends to, it
considers; what the mind does not attend to, it dismisses." So, there’s no
question of doing something ‘tomorrow’.
Before
taking leave, I would like to tell you all that I‘v finally decided to bake
that yummy cake for which my friend gave me the recipe about…a week ago. Yes, I
will bake it TOMORROW…
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