Keep Going!

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 - 50M children start playing tennis, 5M learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5,000 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 you Sweet, Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrow keeps you Human, Failure Keeps you Humble,
Success keeps you Glowing, But only God Keeps you Going.
Keep Going!
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A forward which I have already forwarded to tons and couldn't resist posting it on the blog as well. A very simple story but of profound impact because it teaches us a very basic but at the same time very important thing: to accept good & bad things or the so-called happiness and sadness with the same attitude.
I know I'll face immediate disagreements on this so please let me first clarify that this attitude doesn't ask people not to aspire for better & higher things in life. It just highlights the importance of acceptance of the moment, i.e. I have done this and I have received this - not accepting the result then is a folly. It is of course then our responsibility to become better because life is nothing but a process of improving and bettering things and ourselves. Stagnation is contrary to life.
I believe that there are still some people left in the disagreeing lot and I don't mind it because that is always the case. However, I would just point out that acceptance (of say a bad/inferior result of any action) is only wise and it doesn't imply that we have become complacent. Rejection of the result is but the denial of truth. It takes courage to accept failure and more so to stand again and work in the direction of betterment in the quest of finally reaching perfection!