“Our aspirations are our possibilities.” —Robert Browning
People often boast of their size rather than their strength. What counts more whether the size or strength is a debatable issue. Let us briefly look at it with illustrations before concluding.
You must have heard the biblical story of David vs. Goliath where tiny David took on the mighty Goliath. When Goliath was boasting of his size, David came forward with confidence and hit the forehead of David with a slingshot and beheaded thus surprising everybody and proving beyond doubt that it was not the size but the strength counts.
When we take the example of the Yugoslavian leader, Marshal Tito he broke the back of the Soviet empire. President Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher came together to bring down the crumbling walls of the Soviet Union, giving hundreds of millions of people the opportunity to enjoy freedom. Transformational leaders like Lee Kuan Yew brought Singapore from nowhere to the number one prosperous country despite a dearth of natural resources and geographical limitations.
Through the right strategy and willpower, a tiny can easily take on a tycoon. In fact, it is not the size but the strength that counts in any game. When we look at Sri Lanka it is a small country geographically but its cricket team is very powerful. It came up to the finals in the World Cup 2011 and played against a giant India.
India being the seventh largest country in size is still a developing country. However, geographically smaller countries like Singapore, Israel, and Finland are the developed ones and are world leaders in many spheres.
It is the mental size not the physical size counts in this world. Similarly, people must stretch their mental sizes, not physical sizes. Lal Bahadur Sastri, the former Prime Minister of India was a leader who was short in size but proved much bigger and better than stalwarts who were bigger although his tenure was short. It is the ideas that rule the world, not size. It is the strength that rules the world, not size. It is willpower that rules the world, not money or muscle power. Hence, what counts at the end of the day is your willpower and strength, not size.
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