EmogInspiration

Its a new month, a time to re-evaluate and check our goals
and how close we are to achieving them. I was watching an
interview this morning. It was Larry King interviewing Sydney
Poitier. There was a story he told of something that happened
in his past that actually caught my attention.

He saw an advert in a paper for a job and applied for it. On
getting there, He was asked to read a particular portion from
an article. He tried his best to read the words pronouncing
them one after the other and the interviewer was so angry. He
considered the whole thing a waste of his time and said to
Sydney Poitier, “you ought to be washing dishes somewhere,
acting is not for you”.

He left the venue and headed straight for a place he could
get a job as a dish washer. Then all of a sudden, a thought
flashed pass him at that moment, “what the man said was his
impression about me. I did not tell him I wanted a job as a
dishwasher, he concluded that”.

He immediately said to himself that he was not a dish washer
and that he will work hard and prove to the man that he was
better than he evaluated him. This thought changed the path
of a man who became one of the greatest actors in history.
He did not give up and blame life for what had happened.
He took up the challenge and bounced back.

I believe that if you have something inside of you, like a ball
that has air inside it, you will definitely bounce back. The
harder the knock, the higher you bounce back. So when
situations and circumstances hit you, take up the challenge
and bounce right back.

We all have choices, we make choices every day. The
summation of our choices form our lives. If Sydney Poitier
had given up and listened to his critics and what they taught
he should be doing, he would have gone unnoticed. He made
a choice to be different. What choices are you making?
Whatever you think in your heart, go ahead and give it a try,
who knows what it might turn out to be.