Striving towards Excellence

-Karthik Gurumurthy

Every event that we encounter in life offers infinite learning possibilities and it is up to us to discover from it, its intrinsic motivation. If we learn from the event it becomes an experience and our maturity expands; else the event simply passes by meaninglessly.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. Even insignificant events when translated into a learning opportunity can create experiences that are very significant to your life. Life is something of what happens to you and everything else of how you respond to it.

Our maturity level is always one rung below the new events that we encounter in life. If we learn from them, we mature from them and we move ahead to take the next assignment of life. If we just go through them by theing upset, worried, tensed, scared and disturbed, then we have learned nothing from them and similar events will keep repeating themselves until we learn the lessons they had to offer us. The very purpose of any event that we encounter in life is to provide us with the maturity that is needed for us to take the higher assignment from life.

Life always gives the test first and then the lessons. When people spend months, sometimes years and in many causes an entire lifetime getting upset, worried, tensed, scared and disturbed for the same reasons, encountering similar events. It becomes so evident that life is struggling to teach a below average student who is refusing to learn anything from the procession of events he has been bumping into. Growth is caught, not taught. The school of life uses experiences as its teacher to help us mature but if we refuse to catch growth, we then put even life into a helpless situation. The secret is to"experience and one will know"