The power of opportunities [Archives:2005/907/Community]

By: Samar Mujalli
Seeing is not the only power of sight and recognizing things, it is also the power of seizing the chance. We all have our lucky breaks and golden opportunities. Most of us are lucky and have them more than once during our lifetime. But, the question that should be asked is: do we really go after these precious opportunities? Do we really try hard to achieve our goals? Well many people would say these are difficult questions to answer, because Yemen is not a country full of opportunities. I have to disagree with them. It is true that Yemen is not a very civilized country but that does not mean that there are no job opportunities for people who want to achieve something in their lives other then sitting and waiting for success to come to them.

Most wealthy people in the world started from nothing, however, they worked hard to achieve what they want. When you ask anyone of them about his/her success story he/she will never tell you I was lucky or I was sitting in front of the television when an opportunity knocked my door.

There are a lot of excuses that people use to explain their failure. They might say that their circumstances didn't help them or they didn't have the perfect family. In a respond to that I will tell them the story of Amal Engad. As a child she lived in a society where women were not appreciated or considered an affective part in evolution. She never cared about that or anything else she only cared about helping people and making her country a better place. She cared about people who were less lucky than we are, people who have any kind of retardation. She worked hard to make them feel as an effective part of the society and she did that by opening a school for them and charging them for little money. She opened a home for them when no one else did. She is definitely a successful person but the only difference between her and other successful people is that her success helped a lot of people not only herself. So, after knowing her story this excuse is not acceptable any more.

Another question that we should ask our selves is: Are scientists, doctors, engineers, etc. Better than us? Are they creatures from another plant? Here we find another lame excuse. People might say that successful people are gifted or have bigger brains. We all know that this is not true. Recent studies of human ability proved that every person is genius in one way or another. You just need to find the area that you are a genius in and you must be convinced that every person has a great ability. Even disabled people have this ability and the greatest example of this is Al-Bradoni. His blindness never kept him from writing poems. Although he didn't see the beauty of nature and the beauty of people, he wrote a lot about them because he saw the beauty of living. His poetry was and still is one of the greatest of all times. So, what could all of this tell us about ourselves, we are speechless towards this kind of determination? If we have little of that determination, we would have been living in the moon.

Finally, I just want to add one more thing. Success has many faces, a mother who raised her children good is a successful person, a teacher who made his/her students understand and benefit is a successful person, and a cleaner who made his country clean and beautiful is a successful person. We just need to find our own success and define it, as we want neither power nor money can define it.
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