Positive News – Edition XXVVII

He Once Walked Barefoot to School. Today, This Village Lad Is an ISRO Scientist!

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Since he was young, the new ISRO recruit has always wanted to be a scientist.

Baytu, a small idyllic tehsil in the Barmer district of Rajasthan, has unforgiving weather conditions. Summers are especially unbearable, with temperatures reaching record highs. A young Chunaram would walk the 4 kilometres, barefoot, from his village to his school, determined to gain knowledge.

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Disabled son inspires proud dad’s record-breaking swim for Guinness World Records Day

15nov2019disabledsonThey are typically bold, sometimes risky, even dangerous but passion is what drives people around the world to go on adventures, and more over be the best at it.

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A CEO who writes 7,400 employee birthday cards a year explains the value of gratitude

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If you happen to sit next to Sheldon Yellen on your next flight, chances are he’ll be writing birthday cards. Lots and lots of them.

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Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Aged 29, Emma is Living a Life of Adventure

15nov2019parkinsonsAt the age of 29, Emma received a diagnosis she hadn’t expected.

“In 2013 I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s,” she says. “It was the last thing I expected it to be when my hand started feeling weak. I was just 29 and Parkinson’s was something people’s grandmas got, right?

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The Brief and Inspiring Life of James Le Mesurier

15nov2019humanitarianThe British humanitarian accomplished enormous feats in alleviating the suffering of civilians in Syria.

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Fable : Bring in change

Bayazid, a Sufi mystic, has written in his autobiography, “When I was young I thought and I said to God, and in all my prayers this was the base: ‘Give me energy so that I can change the whole world.’ Everybody looked wrong to me. I was a revolutionary and I wanted to change the face of the earth.

“When I became a little more mature I started praying: ‘This seems to be too much. Life is going out of my hands–almost half of my life is gone and I have not changed a single person, and the whole world is too much.’ So I said to God, ‘My family will be enough. Let me change my family.’

“And when I became old,” says Bayazid, “I realized that even the family is too much, and who am I to change them? Then I realized that if I can change myself that will be enough, more than enough. I prayed to God, ‘Now I have come to the right point. At least allow me to do this: I would like to change myself.’

“God replied, ‘Now there is no time left. This you should have asked in the beginning. Then there was a possibility.’”\

Interpretation : Most of us keep wanting to change the world but are not able to. It would be best if we focus on ourselves so that slowly but steadily, change does take place.

 

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