When I was growing up, whenever a child fell down and bruised his kneel, his father would say, “Congratulations, you have just killed a big rat”. The child would quickly get up, raised his chest high up and smiled proudly to himself (instead of crying) believing that he has just killed a big rat. Today, what you do say to your child when he makes a mistake?
In life, it is not the number of times we fall down that matters. It is the number of times we fall down and able to get up and go. Learning from childhood how to get up and go after each fall is an important key to success in life. It is about learning to understand that falling is the other side of rising. Without falling, you cannot rise up. Without decreasing, you cannot increase. Without emptying, you cannot fill up. Without closing down, you cannot open up. Without decomposing, you cannot compose. Without destroying, you cannot build. Without clearing a space, you cannot make a space. Without sowing, you cannot reap.
Your birth was therefore not a mistake. There was no mistake in your nationality. The colour of your skin was not by mistake. Your height was not a mistake. There is no mistake in your journey in life. Everything is in perfect order of things. You have everything you need to live a perfect life. Think of yourself as a seed of an apple. Inside the seed, there are roots, a trunk, leaves and everything that makes up a perfect apple tree. All the seed needs is soil, water and a gentle hand to bury it inside the mother earth. What the seed does inside the burial ground until it sprouts up and grow to become an apple tree bringing forth delicious fruits, which we all love to eat, is far beyond your ability to comprehend. Therefore, without dying, you cannot live. What a paradox of life and living.
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