George Washington Carver

I first got to know about this person when my mam gave me a book(एक होता कार्वर) as present when i was in 12th . I was not the kind of reader those days which i am these days. But i used to think that these rich guys or students from the cities have easy access to so many things and hence they get so many better opportunities. I did not belong to poor family as ours should be considered well to do and i could have afforded many things which poor people could not . Still i would worry more about what i did not have. And then i got this book which i read in one sitting. And i never ever said i got less after that. How else can you finish that book. One just keep wondering what is next and what he is going to do. If somebody else even completes education in such conditions that itself is an achievement forget the kind of research Carver has done. I wonder and ask what would i have done if i had found myself in such situation and i simply go blank. Carver mentions it was his faith in Jesus which kept him going.
Simply reading story about this man makes me feel anybody can take education. And not just for sake of it but something which can give you capability of brilliant research in your field. Anybody who thinks he/she does not have very good conditions to take education should read about this person and ask themselves the question : Is my situation really worse than his ? If not what are you waiting for ? And i am sure yours will be lot better than his. So go education .. get your dreams !!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

Luther Burbank

Luther Burbank the famous botanist and horticulturist. We had a lesson about him in school days. I did not know much about plants and related science at that time. Far from my imagination was inventing new varieties of plants. For experiments ...For human progress .. for anything it might prove to be useful. What do i love more about him ? Whenever i read about how many varieties he has invented in his career and how many plants he used for his research (millions of plants), i keep thinking what kind of hard work is this ? I feel like tired if i do double the normal work i do on any given day and here there were people on earth who spent their life with millions of plants and never thought they have done enough. It make me think that whatever i do it's going to be very small work compared to this and i should just stop even thinking about my work as 'hard work' .

This person has many things named after him. One of which is Shasta daisy (see picture above).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burbank
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/21.html

Thank you sir for showing us what hard work means.

Thank you .. whom ?

I keep thinking . So inevitably i hit the problems around me. It makes me think .. Oh God ... how can we solve this ? It looks almost impossible to do. At least people like me or so called normal people can not do it. But things still happen. Greater things than we can actually imagine and there are living examples to support this statement. People who have achieved impossible. This blog is a way to thank all those people for just being here on earth to do whatever they did. They give me reason to carry on . Try harder. And after reading their stories i feel , if they can do it everybody should be able to do it. No.. i do not mean to underestimate their hard work. That would be the last thing on my mind. But if people from such difficult situations achieve such big success in different walks of life , i simply can not stop being positive.
These story motivates me when i am at my low. This is also one of the reason to list them here as and when i come across them . So that i can just glance through this section and be on track again. Thank you sir/madam .. thank you for being here.You give me reason to try one more time.