Our strength in disguise

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Can anyone tell me why is the Leaning Tower of Pisa is tilted?

Let me tell you an interesting fact. The Leaning tower of Pisa is tilted due to the soft ground and its foundation.

Yet another truth is that in the past there had been 4 deadly earthquakes in the region, but the tower did not tumble because of the soft ground.

At times what we see as the weakness, happens to be strength in disguise. We can see our past bad experience as a reason to feel bad about but the same experience could have been the reason to our growth and maturity today.

The CEO of Apple and Pixar animation Steve Jobs also feels the same. He feels that dropping out of the college was the best decision he had ever made. Because he had dropped out from college and didn't have to take the normal classes, so he decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. He learnt about Serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations. and about what makes great typography great. None of this had a practical application in his life, but 10 years later when he was designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to him. He designed all that into Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If he had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. If he had never dropped out, he would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. It is impossible to connect the dots looking forward when he was in college, but it was very clear looking backwards 10 years later. We have to trust that the dots will connect somehow in the future. Perhaps dropping out of the college was the best decision he had ever made. His weakness happened to be his strength in disguise.

The same person who was our critique to make us feel judgmental about ourselves is the reason for us to learn the truth about ourselves. Each time we fell, we  rose up stronger and more determined to walk stronger than before.

"Dukh daaru Sukh rog bhaya"-- Pain is the medicine, and often our luxuries become the reason of our suffering. This is what Guru Sahib reminds us daily.

WE DON'T HAVE TO LOOK AT BAD EXPERIENCES AS A DISASTER. THIS IS NOT THE END OF LIFE. WE SHOULD SEE THEM AS OUR TEACHERS. 

LEARN A LESSON FROM EVERY BAD EXPERIENCE AND GET BETTER AND MATURE.

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