We usually hear, watch, or read about famous historical figures, inventors who changed the world, industrial men who improved the way of living for communities once turning over the industry, or yet better musicians who composed heavenly masterpieces. These names are very few compared to their rivals in their time in any phase in history. Why we only read, hear, or see sculptures of those in particular? Is it because they were pioneers in what they do? Is it because they challenged the way the communities think or interact? Is that they helped the civilization in evolving for better future? Or is it that because they swam against the current? – I will exclude the brave patriots, national heroes, and martyrs who changed the course of their own countries and I shall speak about them in a different blog in future.
In every era there are many scholars, inventors, musicians, revolutionaries – to name few – who try to do something creative, new, angelic but handful number succeed to be noted and mentioned in history books or any other eternal scripts. Were they remarkable survivals in such way that they were able to swim against the current and reached their goals? Or Were they strong swimmers in such a way they were always the fastest and the first to arrive to shore? One could say, both have the same result which is been noted and acknowledged as elites, so why to care about their ways. I say No, there are two categories of those noticeable figures, some were excellent swimmers and the rest were remarkable survivals; but yes, all reached their goals to be spoken about till life on earth ceased to exist.
The excellent pioneer swimmers are those who were following the general trend of doing actions, but they were noticeably hard workers, non stoppable, undefeated, and persistent with defined targets such that they reached their goals faster than others and they were granted eternal memorial. They wanted to go from point A to point B in a very convenient, efficient, remarkable, and fast methods and make use of the current to reach their destinations. I will be careful in enlisting few examples, for instance the athletes, the politicians, the regulators and law makers, the reporters and writers, the actors, and the teachers.
The remarkable original survival swimmers who were swimming against the current are the ones who hold revolutionary ideas, challenged the community way of thinking or living, deviated the course of civilization, improved one’s knowledge and ethics, in such a way the history cannot avoid passing near without enlisting their names in the eternal journal. They really challenged the current and swam against it from point A to uncertain point B, but they were so original in their ways and methods that the current didn’t defeat them but it made them more willful to touch their goals and prove their ways to be creative and first spoken about. One should clearly state that the acceptance of their colleagues or societies were in some extend not easy on them and not believing in their courses till they reached their destinations an proved their original methods. Also here to name few in caution, the scientists, the engineers and architects, the artists and painters, the philosophers, the sociologists, and the prophets.
One of the many thoughts or ideas of any single human being – of course me too! – is to be recognized and acknowledged either as pioneer or remarkable survival, – better yet as survival – and surely live to witness the day in which he is admitted by all to join the list of everlasting names in history. Being also remarked after one’s death can bring benefits and pride for his family and encounters in limited scale if we don’t want to magnify the result on larger scale. One can only follow his determined way to reach his defined objective in serving either a noble cause, or improving any sector in humanity, etc… Let us all be exceptional swimmers either with or against the current and history will mark us either in our course of live or after.
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