Sunday, February 14, 2010
Be Positive even in failures
Friday, February 12, 2010
It Matters In Love
it’s not called ‘love.’ It’s called ‘like.’
So don’t bother reserving a space in your heart for someone
who doesn’t make an effort to stay.
or finding fault with those we already love,
when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Beyond the ordinary
THE ACE FOOTBALL PLAYER
Pele — this short name would suffice for a man of tall stature. Beautiful skills, astonishing speed and ball control: of all those great players in the yellow and green shirts, Pele was the greatest of them all.Pele was born in a poor family and due to poverty he had to drop out of school at the age of 10 while studying in the fourth class. The family situation became even harder when his father, a fairly good football player had to quit playing it professionally due to a knee injury. His father had started training him in football as soon as Pele started walking.Pele used to play barefooted in the streets of Bauru where he grew up, not with a ball, but with a sock filled with rags. Later he took up odd jobs for his living. At the age of 11 Pele drew the attention of Waldemir de Britto, the renowned coach who trained him for four years and taught him all the techniques and tricks of the game. Pele worked all the more harder to master the game. That paved the way for his promising future.Pele scored two goals in the world cup final at the age of 17, an achievement that is unlikely to be matched ever in world cup history. As he was a Negro with dark skin, Pele earned the name ‘Black Pearl’ of football. It has been more than a quarter of a century since his last competitive game, and yet Pele cannot visit a country without crowds flocking to meet him.
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.