We Rise By Lifting Others

"What is the meaning of life?" This is a question that we all ask ourselves at one point or another of our existence here. It is a question that I have asked myself many times over the years. The best answer that I ever came across was written by the great psychologist, Viktor Frankl who had survived the Nazi Concentration camps in World War II. Frankl wrote that "The meaning of life is to give life meaning." When I was a young boy I gave my life meaning by simply playing, running, jumping, swimming, laughing, and riding my bike. When I went to school I gave my life meaning by learning, studying hard, getting good grades and trying to make my Mom and Dad proud. When I was a teenage boy I found meaning in playing sports, hanging out with my friends, and trying to impress girls. In college I found my meaning by deciding what I wanted to study and what career I wanted to prepare for. When I was working as a teacher I found meaning in helping to open young minds to n...

Correct me if am wrong, but I believe it was Albert Einstein that said "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb tress, it will live the rest of its life believing that it is stupid". Why are our kids and youths being judge by what they can not do? Why are they constantly called stupid just because they don't understand vocabulary or because they can't solve equations? But yet you find that same kid to be a great cook, a good barber, a good mechanic, a good dancer, a good cleaner, but lack of academic excellence makes him/her worthy enough to become stupid? No! The stupid ones are the teachers and parents who want the best for their kids but ignores everything good in them. "Success is not acquired, it is developed from what you are inside. From writing love letters to writing love novels, from cooking in empty cans to owning restaurant, from driving bamboo cars to driving trucks and buses, from fixing a light bulb to fixing a transf...