Get motivated, get up, answer your calling and motivate others along the way!
To be an inspiration or motivation to someone is a great achievement in life. We think only the greatly successful and famous are idol that can motivate or inspire people. Life has been tough for them, life has treated them bad and they have surfaced to the horizon, struggling through the dark nights.
But this is not the only definition of anyone who can be a
motivator. Anyone can be a motivation, yes people like you and I can inspire
others. The scale of motivation or inspiration may be small, but yes, it is
true that you can inspire someone.
The other day I saw a post on facebook in which I was
tagged. My sister had played some game and the results said, I was her mirror
personality. She had put up the post saying I am motivated for being like my
Didi – that is what she calls me, meaning elder sister.
I was surprised, yet glad to see that, I could motivate
someone. But on further reflection I thought, I don’t need to be someone famous
or great to be an inspiration. She has always liked to spend time with me and
follow everything I do. She studied whatever I told her, she dressed like me,
put on accessories like me, developed confidence, speaking skills, street
smartness, and other living traits just like me. Unknowingly she has always
tried to be like me.
I am not happy that she is like me, but I am happy that she
has picked up all the good traits that I might have showed her while she was
growing up. It is not that I want her to be like me, but I am happy that she is
motivated to be like me.
Being the eldest in the family, it sets me in the position
to become the idol for everyone, and I am glad to know that I have succeeded in
doing so to a certain extent.
In the Indian scenario, the eldest sibling has to be the
best to set examples for the younger ones, it sometimes seems as a burden, but
then today I feel have achieved the difficult task and am glad to know that
someone feels motivated by being like me.
Another incident that sets me to believe that everyone can
be an inspiration is because we need inspiration for smaller things in life,
and those turn out to be the most important. In a simple chat with a friend,
she said, she was feeling tired of getting up for yoga in the morning. But then
she thought of me and said, this girl gets up at four in the morning to do
things for others. Can’t I get up 20 minutes early to fit in my yoga routine? And
the only one who will benefit from it will be me.
This is also a form of motivation or inspiration, each one
can find reasons to be motivated by others and each one can be an inspiration
to others. Feel no less about oneself. Move on, do things you like, achieve you
goals, design your destiny, don’t worry about becoming famous or filthy rich to
be someone’s motivation. Along the journey of life there will be many things we
learn from others and others learn from us.
Get motivated, get up, answer your calling and motivate
others along the way!
Kiran V Pandit
