Yesterday, I was watching a very good talk show. Among the invitees, there was a fisherman (a very special one as you will see), a top model and a yoga teacher. All three have a very interesting history.
The first guy invited was a son of a very famous composer and was supposed to become one as well or at least to dedicate himself to music, but one day he revolted to his father's will, left the music academy, his country and became kind of a fisherman. He spent years in different parts of the world including Amazonia and visited places of the Earth that were never visited by a white man before. He was living with jungle tribes and of course, he was hunting fish. He owns many world records because he managed to capture (and let free again) a high number of fish that were several meters long and looked like prahistoric creatures. He filmed some of his journeys for National Geographic as well and was a guest of Jay Leno's talk show as one of a few foreign invitees in the history of the show. Btw, I've learned a very interesting recipe from him (unfortunately not suitable for vegatarians): Cover big jungle worms in the stinky mud where everybody wash their feet, and let it dry in the hot sun. You get tasty crisps... well, not so badly tasting crisps, at the end you have to eat something to survive... ;-)
The second guest was a vary famous top model that left her small home town at the age of 15 and went to a casting directly to Paris because she wanted to be a top model. She presented herself there with a dress that her sister sewed for her (so you can imagine LOL). And she has made it. Nowadays, she belongs to the most famous world top models. Although she is not the youngest one anymore, she still looks gorgeous... she is pregnant, very happy with her new husband and still successfully working as a model.
The third invitee was a guy that spent ten years in a prison in India (FYI, for smuggling more then two kg of hashish. =D ) He stated that in the prison, you can go or down (heroin, AIDS,...) or up (educate yourself, use the time for your personal growth). He chose the second option, started to read books and saint writings and volunteered to teach yoga in the prison. Soon, he became very famous in the country as he was the only one foreign yoga teacher in India who was moreover teaching in a prison. He said something interesting and very true: That the leader is simply the one who gets up first and does the thing.
As you can see, these people have very different lifes, very rich and unusual experiences. It has been very inspiring for me to listen to their life stories. What do they have in common? All of them did something unusual and "big" in their lifes. They decided to follow their "internal voice" or how you want to call it and do what they wanted to do, no matter how crazy their idea seemed to be to other people and no matter what circumstances they were facing. They became very successful and reached their happiness.
We always have a choice and we are always free to do anything we want in our lifes in order to feel good and fulfilled.
Namaste.
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