I recently a movie about a lady who got diagnosed with a brain tumor. The doctors told her she had three weeks to live. She had a hard time accepting it and understandably cried a lot and blamed God. She also phoned her sister who was only interested in her own life and did not bother to listen to the lady.

This lady had a special book that she kept called her possibilities book. In this book she had pictures of things that she wanted to achieve in life and since she only had three week to live she decided to follow some of the dreams in her book. She went to the bank withdrew all her savings and went off on a great adventure. It took the possibility of dying that made her realise that there is more to life. 

This made me think. If it wasn’t for the fact that she was dying she would have never followed her dream. How many of us have dreams that we paste in a book? Once in a while we look at these things but never actually go out there and do the things we so badly want. Why must we be threatened by death before we start to live our lives.

We so often save up money for when we go on pension or work ourselves into a coma to achieve great things like living in a mansion or driving a nice car, that we forget to live our lives. What if there is no old age, can you honestly say you lived your life fully if you had to die today?

We often measure our achievements and our success to the standard of other people and then once we start comparing ourselves with others we see ourselves as under achievers in comparison to them. But what is the measure of success? I heard the tale of a man telling this story. He said he was standing at a railway station waiting for a train. As he looked up towards the escalator a very large lady was coming down. He gathered that she did not travel a lot because her luggage was old. Next to him on the platform was another couple that made some rude remarks about the lady. She heard them and he could see in her eyes that she was hurt by these.

Why do we compare ourselves to others? God created each and every person in his or her own unique way. We are all perfect, but by comparing us to others we seem to miss our perfection. God’s soul lives in each and every person. By judging and comparing we set our-self human standards and we are losing sight of the greatness that God created within us.

We all live our lives chasing and comparing ourselves to the standards of others instead of living our lives to the standards and capabilities that God has given each of us individually. 

We are all unique in our own special ways. Uniqueness that is beyond comparison. We each received various talents all to fulfill a special place on this earth and to live our lives to its fullest.

At the end of the movie the lady realised that she was the only one that could make her possibilities reality. She was misdiagnosed but instead of going back to her old life she change her possibilities into realities.

What is it going to take for you to change your dreams into realities

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