Self Pity
"Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: "Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease"? To this Arthur Ashe replied: The world over -- 5 crore children start playing tennis, 50 lakh learn to play tennis, 5 lakh learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, When I was holding a cup, I never asked GOD "Why me?". And today in pain I should not be asking GOD "Why me?" Happiness keeps u Sweet, Trials keep u Strong, Sorrow keeps u Human."
Might sound a bit too philosophical but I like it. When you are hit by strange things self-pity is something that drowns you completly. One of my freinds used to quote the same thing from the writings of Mother (Pondicherry Aurobindo Ashram), which I should say in the past kept me away from getting self-pity.
posted by N.V.Balaji | 3:41 AM
2 Comments:
Self Pity is not that bad, what is more bad is feeling bad for what others would say about you. If some one else were in your situation and you would feel sad for him, the by all means you should pity yourself if you are in the same situation. If you try to supress that then you are hypocrite trying to supress your sadness. On the other hand dont ever feel bad because of what others think of your situation.
Hi,
Your comments may be true in certain scenerios but not always.
I wish to draw your attention towards major cases in which person get depressed and looses all hopes of life. This loos of hope will kill that person immidiatly even if he is physically alive mentally he is dead. And believe me the later kind of death is more painful .
The person should keep life going.
The answer to the letter is relly perfect and ideal.
I applause the way he behaved.
He became a example for other AIDS patients.
I hope you might be agree with me now.
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