The all-powerful "Belief"

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning

Thus said Mahatma Gandhi.

You are what you think you are. If you think you are capable of achieving the impossible then, impossible is nothing.

Belief is a very powerful tool and can take us to dizzying heights if we choose to make it an ally.

If you think you can. you are right. If you think you cant, you are right again.

Tell an average person that you can run an empire one day, he would laugh it off. But tell it to a business tycoon, he wont laugh because he knows it is possible as he has done it himself.

Little children know no limitations. They are explorers. They dont know what obstacles mean and single mindedly pursue what they set out to. Despite falling, they ultimately are able to achieve what they wanted to.

Children think they can take on anything and so they can. But as a child grows up, he is told what not to do and what dangers and obstacles lurk at every corner of the world. He is told dreams are but dreams and nothing else. Elders advise him he cannot achieve the impossible. Impossible is impossible after all. These elders get their idea of the 'impossible' from their elders in turn.

Such ideas get passed on from one generation to another like a heirloom and ultimately take the shape of belief. And what was just an idea before, becomes reality. 'Impossible' actually becomes impossible.

How we stare in amazement when we see people of some communities doing things like walking on fire. That is because what is slated to be impossible for one community is deemed to be possible for another depending upon their beliefs.

Had we continued believing in our dreams like we did as liitle children, we could have long achieved what we consider impossible today.