Failure

Failure is a relative word, freighted with connotations of disaster. No one lives long without experiencing at least some failure: as a child, with childish expectations, who among us hasn't wished for something to come true, worked towards it, and then cried when our plans fell through? Failure as an adult brings more tears as our hopes reach ever higher, and crash still harder.
Experiencing failure builds integrity and gives you the opportunity to learn that you will not succeed at everything you set out to do. For some individuals taking risks and the possibility of failing does not come easy. People fear the consequence of failure and often will look at a situation for the potential for something to go wrong. If you never take a risk and the chance you might fail, you may be missing opportunities at the chance of being part of something new and exciting. Many people have failed many times before experiencing success, these are the people who understand that failure is not a reason to quit.
The learning process can be painful and difficult sometimes; some skills are not easy to master and the sense of achievement when we finally succeed brings pleasure. To achieve success we have, sometimes, to examine our understanding of a subject, how we view how others live, to moderate our perceptions of the world. If we can overcome the shock and disappointment of a failure, we have the tools to develop into a broader, more understanding person with a greater insight into the world.
Successful people use failure as the motivation to try harder. How many failures did NASA have before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon? What we don't always appreciate in that historic event are the incredible advances in virtually every aspect of science and technology that occurred through the pursuit if this amazing objective.Thomas Edison is said to have failed more than 10,000 times while working on the light bulb, but said, "If I find 10,000 ways something doesn't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward". Over the course of his life, many of his failures in some areas resulted in new inventions in others.Countless failures, fretted over and investigated, took humanity to unimaginable heights and incalculable results.Life is full of challenges, and how we decide to face those challenges is what ultimately determines our direction in life. Developing the drive to persevere in the face of adversity strengthens character, giving us the ability to handle even greater challenges in the future.
Failure is simply a roadblock along the course toward our final destination. We must find a way to move around those challenges and continue on our journey. Many people that achieve prominence in their chosen fields have stumbled at some point. The difference is that they did not give up. Instead, they view failure as a challenge, a temporary setback causing them to learn from their mistakes.
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new," Albert Einstein.Failure is not the end, and yes everyonefails at something from time to time. It is nothing to feel shame about or hide from. We have all been there and we have all survived. Failure may be at work or in apersonal relationship that did not work. You may have felt that you have been given an unlucky hand. Failure is just showing you that there is something different you need to do at work or in your relationships. Failure does not identify you personally, it identifies change is needed.
The bottom line is that you need to learn from failure is an important learning tool. If you do not understand that fact, you may be afraid to ever take any risks again because of the fear of failure. Take advantage of the lessons learned when you failed at something. We always learn from everything we do, but many individuals fail to recognize the lessons learned. Failure can build a stronger and smarter person because they have taken the opportunity to benefit from failure instead of choosing to disappear in the woodwork and never try anything new again.
Failure is part of the maturing process, but except for those who can't see the opportunities presented by it; it's an integral part of the success equation that drives us forward. Those whose circumstances rarely experience success cause the rest of us to be mindful of them and to assist them as a compassionate society must.
No one has success 100% of the time, many times it may take a few failures to get it right. It is all right to allow yourself to fail, because the best result is that you learn what you can, pick up the pieces and start again. Trying new things and taking risks does not come easy for many people, mainly because they are afraid of failure. The message here is that do not feel defeated by failure and think of it as a educational experience.Perhaps Winston Churchill said it best: "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm." When we view our failures as challenges, we're able to maintain the enthusiasm needed to rejoin the fight

Hee Kah

what is life? (1)

We are born, we live, and we die. Nothing more, and nothing less. What is the point? We are born into a world characterized by the mere word of "existence". But what really is existence? We die, and there is nothing but the lifeless bones that we leave to our descendants. We are here with no purpose.
Life can mean a million things and it can depend on a person's perception as to how it is viewed.Life can be a great journey in which we travel roads with ease or choose paths that are tough. Sometimes we have to change our destinations so that life is what we need it to be. We often welcome travelers to our side only to have to bid them farewell later on. It is important to appreciate their company while they are there because these travelers are on their own journey, and through one another you enrich your trip.We are travelers within this journey called "Life". Our paths may cross, and if they do, I wish you well on yours.
A. Powell Davies quoted that "life is just a chance to grow a soul." I believe that life is all about the evolution of the soul. Each experience on this dimension is not just a mere coincidence; it was meant for a reason. Some of these instances are not only for us to experience; but also for others to observe.
Every ripple of life affects someone else's life. That's the reason we are all here together; to learn from one another. We watch and observe from what we see and experience, and register these experiences deep within our soul; for future reference.
Each day of life reflects joy and also sorrow. You feel the deep love in your soul for your family; and then cry in despair as one of them passes away. A beautiful sunrise warms your heart with its beauty, and then you witness someone get mistreated or abused. This is what life is about.
There is so much to experience that it seems almost impossible to enjoy it all. There is so much to touch, to taste, to feel. The good and the painful. It's there for the taking. Without the pain that life sometimes dishes out, we may not know how good the rest of it can be. So mind you, the pain is part of the lesson. It makes the soul stronger and the mind more open. No good without bad. No happiness without sadness. There is a balance with life.
Life is a choice. It is a series of paths that lead us home. Your life is what it is because of your path. Your fate is yours to create and the meaning is yours to understand. Right path. Wrong path. Who's to say? The only thing for sure is that it is yours.Life is what you want it to be. Whether you know it or not, your destiny is in your hands. You have a choice to change your life to fit your immediate environment. Your awakening must begin from inside. Every thought and action you make now will shape your future life.But for me life is the period between birth and death, it is short, meaningless, and empty and life is only a series of rising and falling events

Hee Kah

destiny

Plato once said: No man can escape his own destiny. Is this true?
Destiny - an interesting word and I really don't think to be mistaken with Fate. The definition in the dictionary is the seemingly inevitable or necessary succession of events that will happen to any person or anything. In our life time we very often ponder what the differences are between fate and destiny. Why is that some of us are fortunate to live long and wonderful lives while others die young? Why are some people so wealthy and others destitute and penniless? Some people believe it is karma that determines our destiny in this life. What we did in our previous life, determines the kind of life we will live now. Many people believe our fate and destiny are the same. This is not at all true. Destiny and fate are however, closely entwined. Fate is what happens to us at the end of our lives. Our fate is that final moment when we take our last breath. For some their fate will be to die in an act of violence, in a car crash, from cancer or asleep in bed. Can we change our fate? The answer is "no". Your fate is simply that final moment in your life; when your life ends. But then there is destiny. Can we control our destiny? The answer is both "yes" and "no". Destiny is the journey we take in our lives and fate is that final moment when the journey ends. How we are raised, life experience, and free will, help us to determine our destiny. Our destiny is determined by many different factors.Because a life experience affected you, you chose to make it part of your destiny. We must make decisions every day. Sometimes, those decisions can be fatal.That is when your destiny became your "fate".There are extraneous variables that are beyond our control that do affect our destiny and fate. A car accident, an earthquake, a shooting, and illness are a few examples of things that we have no control over. These extraneous variable can change our destiny and if we are fortunate enough to survive; reshape our destiny. So are we to truly believe that even on a day-to-day basis we have the autonomy that God gave us, the right to choose right from wrong, the right to make our own decisions that this all is false and it is all mapped out for us anyway?we should then take charge of our own destiny. Even if destiny is determined on a religious scale then is this not choosing the right path that God wanted us to follow to reap rewards and not choose the path of self destruct? If destiny is not a divine concept then we can still map out our own destiny by choice.
What if you were to totally take charge of your destiny and, once and for all, create the life you were born to live?What if you were to uncover the habits and beliefs that have been causing you to self-sabotage in the past?
By taking charge of our destiny we need to have absolute certainty, empower ourselves, belief and a vision of what we want our destiny to be. This revelation then means that on a day-to-day basis the decisions we make can either have us on course or if we stray even just a little send us in a completely different direction than to where we want to end up. This is very much like any sailor setting sail for his destination, if he was to stray a millimetre off and continue he would not arrive at his destination. This is how close we all are to the destiny we wish to achieve, small changes can make a difference.If our destiny was predetermined or a design of our past or present lives then I would not believe that individuals such as Oprah Winfrey and Tony Robbins would have reached the heights they have. They visualised their destiny and pro-actively kept on track until they achieved it. Through failure however does come success if you learn the lessons brought before you.
Life will always throw us challenges and these are life lessons for us to gain knowledge and power from. I do believe however that we have the power to predetermine our own destiny and even if we do go off track a little we have the freedom to choose to get right back on route. So I don't believe that destiny makes us who we are but we make our own destiny.For Destiny is more then just a six letter, it's a way for us tofind our being. Where when circumstances happen beyond our control, it fills us with wonderment. We wonder if it's our fate, our destiny, but we shouldn't question it. For God has a plan for each and every one of us. Destiny is something that we believe in or we don't, something that gives us hope. For without hope we have no heart, and we don't feel, if we feel then we know that we are alive. It's our destiny that will bring us to the very thing that we are running from, and know that's in our destiny to cross the path that we tread upon.
It is great to imagine what our destiny is going to be in life. Are we destined for great things? Our fate however, is something that we would all like to push to the back of our minds, at least until that fateful day.

Is god an allien?

Through a small telescope, a small region of the sky shows us about 2 million stars. On average, it is estimated that there are about 1020 stars. There may be even more out there. If we say that the conditions for life are around one in a thousand stars, we have 1014 stars. If one in a thousand of these have an atmosphere suitable for life, we get 1011. And if one in a thousand of these have produced life, we have 100 million. Take one in a thousand of these as planets that have developed some form of intelligent life, and we get 100,000 planets. We could keep reducing the probability of existence of intelligent life out there, and still reach 200!One of the basic assumptions of this theory is the assumption that extraterrestrial life is a reality, and this is reiterated in evidence being presented again and again here.Now, we constantly make the mistake of assuming that life must exist, develop and flourish in conditions exactly like ours. Yet on this planet of ours, we have anaerobic bacteria: these live in environments that possess no oxygen. Germs have also been found in the lethal water that surrounds a nuclear reactor. Experiments that recreated the conditions of Jupiter were also seen to have supported life. Some bacteria live in volcanoes, some eat stones and some produce iron. The point being made here is that life can exist in any condition. An alien civilization out there might consider their conditions to be the ideal one for sustaining life.

Our own planet

Shifting focus back to our own planet now. Generally when a certain point of mystery in our past is raised, or questions regarding the history of something, the scholars will tell us what happened, in so and so way. And that will get accepted, without much thinking on our part. But there are some things on this planet that are simply too weird for an explanation, and are hence not addressed by these 'scholars.' Here is a small list below, you may do a search to read more on it:
-Piri Reis Maps found in Topkapi Palace. This was found in the possession of a Turkish Navy Admiral. It was a map of the world, showing even North and South America and even Antarctica if the ice caps were to be removed. However, the map was seemingly distorted. A startling discovery showed that projecting the map onto a sphere would produce an exact view of how the world would appear if it were seen from a certain distance in space. How did our ancestors get a hold of this?
-Straight geometrical lines, some intersect and form trapezoids, in Nazca, Peru. And they're not even roads, because they end abruptly.
-Tiahuanaco is a city teeming with mysteries. Here, archaeologists founds an accurate calendar that gave the equinoxes, astronomical seasons and the positions of the moon at every hour. This is from 27,000 years ago. Also at Tiahuanaco, one can find huge sandstone blocks with accurate stonework on it, in seemingly impossible ways. There is also a Great Idol at the Old Temple, and the Gate of the Sun shows 'flying Gods' on it. Tiahuanaco also holds a legend of flying ships from the stars.
-Sacsahuaman: Giant Monolith, exquisitely carved and standing on its head.
In Ur, where the worlds oldest books exist, we find stories of "Great Gods" that come in flying ships.
-Sumerians were one of the earliest civilizations that apparently appeared out of nowhere. Not only that, they were an advanced civilization: They had advanced astronomy, and estimates on the rotation of the moon that differ from todays calculations by 0.4 seconds. Also found was a calculation with a 15 digit result. The Greeks at the peak of their civilization never went above 10,000. The Sumerians, apparently, also had huge spans of life. They have documented 10 kings that ruled for a total of 456,000 years. The Sumerians also relate a story of how the Gods had returned after the Great Flood. Some Akkadian tablets show Gods connected with helmets and stars. What's strange is that around the stars are planets of various sizes.
-Drawing of spirals at Geoy Tepe from 6000 years ago.
-A 40,000 year old flint industry at Gar Kobeh
-A Similar one from 30,000 years ago at Baradostian
-Figures and Tombs, 13,000 years old at Tepe Asiab
-Tools, engravings and flints at Karim Shahir from the year 45000 BC
-Helwan has a piece of cloth so fine that it is possible only in a specialized factory today.
-Electric batteries that work on the galvanic principle are on display at the Baghdad Museum
-A 10,000 year old star map in Kohistan
-Smelted Platinum found in Peru
-A rust proof Iron pillar in DelhiWhen
When evidence such as the ones mentioned above are brought into light, they are usually dismissed. Either the ancient civilizations were extremely advanced (and we've lost all their technology), or they had active imaginations. Yet the existence of these cannot be denied. Just about every culture, somewhere or the other, presents us with the same cave drawings, the same legends, the same flying Gods. Why? If it is indeed all lies, how did all of them come up with the same hair brained idea?

The Pyramids
The civilization of Egypt appeared out of nowhere: an advanced, readymade civilization. Where did they come from anyways, and how is this sudden jump possible? To start off, fertile land in Egypt occurs only in the Nile Delta. Experts estimate that there may have been some 50 million inhabitants required at the time of the construction of the pyramids. Whatever the population, one this is sure: they all had to be fed, and the scanty yields of the Nile Delta's agriculture isn't enough. These so called experts also say that wooden rollers were required to move the blocks. But the only trees in Egypt are palm trees, the shape of which makes it unfit as a roller. Not only that, but these were required for dates and shades. Did the Egyptians import wood? It should be noted that the horse and cart weren't around until 1600 BC. How did the Egyptians carve the tombs out of the rocks? How did they achieve such fine smoothness on the walls? How did they lay out a maze of galleries?A meridian running through the pyramids can divide the continents and oceans in exactly two equal halves. The area of the base of a pyramid, divided by twice the height gives us pi (3.141592). How is this possible? How did they illuminate the interiors of the pyramid to create the drawings and paintings, without blackening the ceilings? How were the blocks joined to the accuracy of a thousandth of an inch?

Easter Island and other Oddities
Most of us know of the giant heads that have been built on the tiny Easter Island for reasons unknown. Observations show that the tiny island could not have supported more than 2000 men, yet building those huge heads out of a singular block of stone and transporting them would have required much more than 2000 men. Not only that, but these men had to be fed, ropes prepared, rollers and what not. What's more, is that on the island, peculiar hats for these heads were also found prepared at another quarry. Why was the place suddenly abandoned?A few more points of mystery on Earth are things that seem rather out of place. For example, cotton was cultivated in Peru in the time of the Aztecs, yet they never used handlooms. The Mayans had built roads, but did not use the wheel, although they knew about it. The Tikal Pyramid in Guatemala has a fantastic pearl necklace, with a jade in it. The Jade is from China. The Pyramids at Teotihuacan have been aligned with the stars. The Mayan Calendar was devised for 23,040,000,000 days. That's about 400 million years. Why did they go that far? Also, how did the Mayans get knowledge of Uranus and Neptune, which weren't 'officially' discovered by us until the 1800s?After a shipwreck off the coast of Antikythera, divers found a strange object. Upon observation, it was found to be an extremely small scale planetarium, with the most intricate clockwork, by which the positions of the Sun, Moon and other planets could be worked out. The ship was said to have floundered around 60BC. In Death Valley, California, melted rock and sand can be found. However, the way in which they've been melted can be possible only by the use of modern day lasers. In Lebanon, there is a "Hadjar-el-Guble" meaning Stone of the South. It weighs well over 2 million pounds, and is well dressed and carved, even though no humans could have moved it. In South Africa, France, Australia, India, Lebanon and Chile, there are mysterious black stones which are rich in Aluminum and Beryllium isotopes. Investigations showed that these must have been subjected to heavy bombardment by radioactivity and high temperature in the remote past.

An Analogy into our Future
In Human history, there have always been visionaries that were bold enough to remain oblivious to criticism. Without them, we would never have reached the moon or invented airplanes. Remember the cries such as "Man can never leave Earth!" or "Man cannot fly!"? It's obvious that the realities of today is the vision of some person from years ago. We should therefore be open to the ideas presented today instead of merely dismissing them as gibberish. Getting back to these mysterious artifacts and facts that our past presents us with, we can explain this with an analogy of our own future:In 1965, two time capsules were buried in New York, which could withstand just about anything, including a nuclear holocaust. Now suppose a nuclear war wipes out most of civilization. It's but obvious that the bombs won't be directed at the bush tribes of Africa or the Eskimos. They'd be directed towards the epicenters of civilization, cities such as New York. In such a time, libraries, achievements and ideas won't be of any use. Life wouldn't be able to flourish in that area for years. But then everything will begin again. Once again, a civilization will emerge. In this new civilization, the archaeologists will claim that 20th century man was not familiar with Iron. . If they find cassette tapes, they wouldn't know what to do with it, even though these could be of incalculable value to them. Texts which spoke of tall skyscrapers would be scoffed and dismissed as 'creativity' on our part. The London Tube would be viewed as a drainage system. Airplanes never existed, because 20th century man could never fly. If they happened to come across the speeches of Marx and Lenin, these would suddenly become high priests. What is being shown here is the analogy between the way we are being viewed 5000 years later, and how we view our ancestors from 5000 years ago.

The Chariots from the Heavens
A Clay tablet found in Kuyunjik, belonging to the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal holds a huge story. The story involves interbreeding, the development of these humans and an encounter plus a travel in a spaceship as well. The story also includes the flood. This same story is present in Babylonian texts and in Tiahuanaco as well. What were these aliens trying to do with us? There was, to some extent, interaction, yet they stayed above us. We revered them, as Gods, while the whole time, they may have just been playing God. The Eskimos have stories of Gods that brought forth the tribes of today. The Mayans have the same legend, and it's called "Popol Vuh." In addition, the Gods knew of a round Earth. How did they know? Not only the Mayans, but the Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians and Egyptians have similar stories. The Mahabharata is the largest poem-epic ever written. It tells of weapons of mass destruction that were very similar to H-Bombs of today. Not only that, but the Gods flew in flying machines of great maneuvering capabilities. Who put these ideas into their heads?Another observation made on each culture is the obsession with the concept of immortality and rebirth. Slaves voluntarily laid down next to their masters graves, eagerly awaiting the next life. One can see this everywhere. Who put these ideas into their heads?Almost all the cultures around the world have a 'promise of return.' The Spaniards were told of this when they went to South America. Some religions might even call it the Day of Judgment, through the twists in ideas that time brings. Don't forget that the thousands of years passing by here may merely be a few years for these intergalactic travelers. In the river Nile, there is a famous Island of Elephantine. There are no hills on the island upon which one could climb up and get that impression. Viewed from the air, the island resembles an Elephant. How did the Egyptians know? The Egyptians also had a calendar based upon the rise of Sirius, with calculations for 32,000 years. What's confusing about this is that Sirius is visible in the early dawn, only during the Nile floods.

Finally...
To summarize the scattered contents of this essay, the past is so full of absurdities that instead of seeking an explanation, we choose to ignore them and often call our ancestors crazy and superstitious. However, everything has a truth to it. The beliefs and practices we uphold today will be laughed at in the not-so-distant future. Yet there's still a reason for what we do. Humans have existed on earth for about a million years, yet we reached such peaks of advancement in a fraction of this time. In just 7000 years. And cultures around the world have all recorded visits of Gods from the unknown. What really happened? A plausible explanation that comes up goes like this:This planet was discovered by some intergalactic travelers around 50000 years ago. They chose to mix and breed an intelligent race on the planet and gave us technology, knowledge and genes in our gene pool. Thus we started advancing at an accelerated pace, simultaneously worshipping these Gods. They promised to return, and left. What may have been a short span of time for them was probably thousands of years for us, in which we continued our advancement, and carried on the worshipping. The Gods did eventually return, perhaps to observe us. Each time they returned, they would help out a bit, a little more knowledge, a little more of 'civilization,' which would explain the extraordinary feats of building the pyramids, monoliths, etc. And then once again, the Gods would leave, with a promise of return. This promise got converted into things like "Day of Judgment," "Day of Reckoning" or "End of the World." Perhaps the relics at Easter Island were built in preparation for the return of the Gods, but the Gods never came, and so it was abandoned. Perhaps the Aztecs had suddenly abandoned their cities so suddenly because the Year of Arrival had come and gone, without a visit from them. Perhaps the city of "Lot" was an experiment gone wrong, and was being destroyed. Perhaps the aliens didn't like the progress of the human race, and decided to start anew by flooding everything out. And now we wait the return of our Gods. The UFO sightings and alien abductions of today are probably them checking in on us. Ever notice when we refer to God, we point up towards the sky?It's time that we started concentrating on our future, so that we may shed light on our past. Let the truth come out.

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Life is a journey, death is the destination

Birth is a beginning and life is a journey and death a destination:
From childhood to maturity and youth to age;
From innocence to awareness and ignorance to knowing;
From foolishness to desecration and then perhaps to wisdom.
From weakness to strength or from strength to weaknessand often back again;
From health to sicknessand we pray to health again.
From offense to forgiveness from loneliness to love
from joy to gratitude from pain to compassion
from grief to understanding from fear to faith.
From defeat to defeat to defeat until looking backwards or ahead
We see that victory lies not at some high point along the way
but in having made the journey step by stepa sacred pilgrimage.
Birth is a beginning and death a destination
And life is a journey;
A sacred journey to life everlasting.
Life
...is the greatest journey you will ever be on.

the darkness in our life

Our life is like quest stand upon the edge of knife. Stray but a little and it will fail to ruin of all. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, the shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. Something were good and it is worth to fight


hee kah

The Night is Darkest before the Dawn - there is hope,even in the worst of circumstances, don't give up

Life offers many things, and sometimes it requires time. One could be frustrated and become overwhelmed overtime because something is not being done as quickly as one thought it would be.

To be honest, life does not offer microwave results; or results that are immediate and in your favor. You must fight the wave, ride the current, and overcome obstacles to aquire results. For example, John F. Kennedy took the bar exam twice before he could pass it the third time. Martin Luther King Jr. went to prison and had much hate passed on him before he could actually start seeing results in civil rights. Even George Washington had to fight for several years as a soldier in the 7 years war and as general of the army until the Revolutionary War took a turn for the patriots and win later to become a war hero of the new nation.

Furthermore, today's society is one that demands and wants everything on the double yet forget that things take time to process and florish. One has to wait for things to happen because patience is key and wisdom is learned. The night is not over until the morning breaks. The worst part of the night is actually the last minutes before the dawn because that is the darkest part. Neopolean Bonaparte knew this and told his troops that if they fought 5 minutes longer than the enemy they would win the battle.

If we take these lines into consideration, we can conclude that we must be strong and overcome the darkness until the morning dawn. In other words, we must do our best till the end, because with hard work and consistancy comes results of one due to their labor.

Hee Kah