Let your choices reflect your hopes not your fears

Mr Honda broke open the wooden wall of his house in a Japanese suburb. As he was tearing down the walls, to his surprise, he found a lizard stuck to the wall because a nail was hammered into one of its feet. Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls. The nail must had been hammered in from outside and struck one of the lizard’s feet.

As he stares at the lizard, he experiences a mixture of emotions – curiosity, amazement, sadness, and sympathy. Mr Honda’s first thought flashes back to the days when he was fighting in the Second World War. Then prisoners of war were kept in cages and he had always felt sadness at seeing fellow men and women being strip of their freedom and dignity. Confined to a single spot without choice just like the lizard. The lizard must have been in this position for five years. That was the time this house was built. If that is so, how did this lizard survive? It is quite impossible for this lizard to survive for five years without moving a single step–since it’s foot was nailed.

Mr Honda stopped his work and observed the lizard. Just then another lizard, with food in its mouth appeared. Food was passed to the lizard that was stuck by the nail. WOW! the lizard had been fed for the past five years by a fellow lizard.

Mr Honda was deeply touched. For five long years, untiringly, without giving up hope, food was carried to the victim. If a small lizard can show love, hope and charity, humans blessed with a brilliant mind should do better.

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that Is strength” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

Aspire to be a giver, give love, give vibes, give hope, give strength and give positivity: No matter how small you think it is, your act of kindness might be all that one needs to spring back into their life, so never think that your kindness may not make a difference.

You are not what happened to you, but you are what you choose to be: Your future can be no different or no better if you keep worrying about your past. Every step you take now, every move you make now is what will shape your future.

The less you care about what others think, the better your life will become: When you start paying attention to the noise of others’ opinion, you start losing track of your own self and your inner voice. Your voice is more important and valuable.

All you need is hope and strength: When you have hope and strength pinned up your sleeve, the hope will help you see the result, and strength will help you hold on until you get there.

The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are, but how happy others can be because of you: When you make others happy, you automatically find happiness.