The true nature of small.

 So we look at skyscrapers then we get the impression that our world is big; then we look at mountains , islands and we get even more convinced that of the illusion. We then see the vast  bodies of the oceans and the sky and we conclude that Earth is a big planet and  perhaps consider the possibility that the sun is revolving around us. Well, we all know that its not true. Infact in 1990 as the Voyager I space probe was leaving the solar system, it was made to turn back and take a picture. On that photograph (above) our 'big' earth appeared as a tiny , pale blue dot. Yes, Everything we know of is stuffed on that 0.12 pixels dot. However, the most intelligent, most inquisitive and intuitive creatures the universe has had are not found giant Jupiter or Neptune but on that blue dot . This only means one thing; small is not the same as insignificant. 
We all want great things in life, we have big dreams and sometimes they just seem too big to be realistic. When this crosses your mind just remember that everything big started small. Every great ending has a humble beginning. Bill Gates started Microsoft in his college room, same story with Mark Zuckerberg and all the big names that we hear of today. They all  convey one message; there is no shame in small. Everything starts small, a book starts with a paragraph, a dollar starts with a penny, we are born small and grow older with every sunrise. Small may appear insignificant, but it has potential, lots of potential. 
Henri Frederic Amiel, a wise Swiss poet once wrote, "What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution." I can't add onto that but all I can say is value what you do no matter how small it seems, because the truth is every second and every step of the way counts. 

Moving.

  Today am going tell you the story of John. In his mid 20's John lost his job, he ran bankrupt over the next month. After a few days later he bought a lotto ticket and won the lottery. He got so much money that he bought a house, a car and could afford not to work for the next 50 years.At least that's what happens in movies and God knows we love to be in John's shoes.We love drama, that's a fact. We do want results in the shortest amount of time. Unfortunately, in the real world, different rules apply.Big change happens not in a day or week but in years. 

Change is always happening. We see it as we grow up, flowers blossom, rivers dry up and rejuvenate, we see change everyday of our lives. Some changes are rapid while for others, we are less likely to notice they happen; but they do. For instance, the petroleum we use today originates from fossils of organisms that lived hundreds of millions years ago before the time of dinosaurs. Even slower is our universe which has evolved to this stage in 13.7 billion years ago there was no plan for life in the universe.

So yes we are changing, and most of the time we don't notice it. We are moving, whether that means rotating with the earth every 24 hours or revolving around the sun but point is life is dynamic. We are always headed towards a direction, either up or down, but we don't stay the same. Anyone who has been on a weight loss journey can relate to this. You always have your focus or else you dwindle to the 'down' direction.

We have goals and are probably working towards them. We obviously have plans but when plan A and B and C don't work it can be hard to know the direction we are headed. That is not the time to quit but to make plan D and E and F until something happens.  When we give up, we don't just stay stationary but we start heading to the 'down' direction. What matters is we keep the goal in mind and trust the process. Believe, there is nothing wrong with wanting things you can't see. Drama happens, the romantic happy ending happens, it will take a little longer but it will happen,  all we have to do is believe. 

Simply proactive.

As we move through life we pick up certain skills, independence, communication, personal management and of course the conniving skill of making excuses.  We naturally learn to conjure up explanation so that everything looks good. A project fails and we blame it on the weather, someone dies and we blame it on sorcery. Somehow the blame game has become part of being human.  With this cycle we end up being reactive creatures. We wait for something to happen before we actually do something.  There is a term for creatures that live this lifestyle, its animals. Naturally, we too are reactive; after all we evolved from chimpanzees.

But we are not animals; we can do better than that. Given the size of our brains, nature raises expectations on us. We are expected to be proactive. Abraham DeMoivre’ clearly portrays what proactive means. De Moivre could have easily lived like any other tutor, live for the next penny. He was poor, he couldn’t get a reasonable job at universities due to his French origin and yet he didn’t give up on mathematics. . He even played chess to supplement his income. He read from giants like Isaac Newton and he eventually derived the infamous deMoivre’s theorem.  Here is the difference between DeMoivre and ordinary people. DeMoivre had something to blame, poverty, but he didn’t use this excuse, he worked his way around it. If you are wondering what proactive means then you got your answer.

Proactive means going for our goals and working situations around them. It means moving towards our goals even when its’ not feasible to do so. It means taking charge of our lives and learning to adapt to whatever obstacles comes our way because reality is always made of obstacles. Reiterate that goal in your head so that nothing you do will jeopardize it. It’s by far the most direct way to being proactive.

There will always some kind of obstacle, something to keep you from reaching that goal. If excuses is all we are looking for then we have nothing to worry about. But if we live for excuses, then what is the point in living. Be proactive, it’s the only way forward, no great man became great accidentally. They had a mission, and when obstacles came like De Moivre they worked their way around them.  So here’s the moral of my 400 word essay, be proactive, life’s amazing that way.