There's Always A Positive Side
There’s a saying that goes…”Life is 10 per cent what you make it and 90 per cent how you take it.”Nobel Prize winner and one of the greatest inventors of all time, R. Buckminster Fuller can attest to that.
Before winning the Nobel Prize, Bucky thought he was finished. He got kicked out of Harvard in his freshman year. All his business attempts failed. Nothing in his life seemed to go right.
And then at age 32, he simply couldn’t take it anymore. One night, he tried to end his life by jumping into Lake Michigan. But as he looked up at the dark skies, reason prevailed. A thought crossed his mind like a voice from nowhere… “you have no right to eliminate yourself as you do not belong to you.”
That moment changed Bucky’s life. He cast away his past failures and resolved to start over.
He studied math, architecture and physics 22 hours a day. In no time, he made over 170 patented inventions, wrote 24 books and went around the world 57 times making his mark on the lives of millions of people around the world.
In embracing life again, R. Buckminster Fuller ditched life’s challenges and lived to win the Nobel Prize as a renowned inventor, architect, writer and star-gazer.
When you’re at an all-time low, that’s the best time to pick yourself up and start again because well, how much lower can you get, right?
Just like another inventor, Thomas Edison. One of the best anecdotes said about him is that day when his warehouse in New Jersey got burned to the ground. He lost almost one million dollars worth of equipment alo
ng with the records of his work. But did he raise his hands in frustration and give up? Nope! The very next morning, while walking amidst the charred embers of his hopes and dreams, Edison at 62, said, “There is value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Now we can start anew.”Edison simply refused to look at the glass and see it as half-empty. Because of his positive outlook and tenacity, we’ve all benefited from his many trial-and-error inventions like
the light bulb, the phonograph, the telephone, the typewiter and motion pictures! And for all his works, Life Magazine chose him as the number one man of the millennium!
We owe it to guys like Tom and Bucky so let’s all take a cue from them and buck the odds that come our way…let’s conquer life and make a diff.
posted by Butch Jimenez @ 9:59 AM
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