I Believe in You
I was just watching Seabiscuit the other night, and as touted by a good friend of mine, was rather inspiring. It wasn’t exactly one of those inspiring stories which would blow our minds or leave us pondering for days after that. It was just a simple and heart-warming story. Despite its simplicity, the moral that it was driving at can only be displayed through us, human beings, even though the story was centered around a horse.
For the benefit of those who didn’t catch the movie, this was as written in its plot summary:
In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters' fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit "fixed us, every one of us."
The jockey, trainer and the horse were all viewed upon by society as failures and nobody took them seriously. The four of them, including Seabiscuit were brought together simply because the owner saw something unique in the trainer despite being a little ‘broken’. Amidst adversities, the union brought about numerous wins and captured the hearts of many.
Now how often do we have the faith and belief of our friends or loved ones that we’ll succeed even though we’ve failed so many times? And I don’t mean those people who pat you on your back and say in a bubbly, high-pitched tone, “aiya you can do it lah!” That sounded more like someone thinking, I better seem supportive so that in case this loser really succeeds, he/she would remember that I supported him/her and will hopefully share his/her wealth with me in the future. Or in a more politically-correct term, patronising.
Would you buy a racehorse which was smaller in size as compared with the other horses, had never won a race and had a track record of being lazy? So what was it that the trainer and the jockey saw in Seabiscuit that the rest of the world couldn’t see initially? I’m sure you’ve heard that many success stories came from people who were one or many-time failures. Bill Gates was a Harvard dropout. Sim Wong Hoo managed to attain his Polytechnic Diploma by scrapping through his exams. Tom Cruise was born dyslexic. Yeah, we’ve heard them all. But yet, why do we still so quickly doubt a friend’s or loved one’s ability to succeed?
Now let’s imagine that you were approached by a consultant in a fairly new spa and after a presentation of its benefits decided to buy a course of spa treatments. You most likely would have no idea of what kind of background the consultant came from as well as the background of the owner of the spa. You simply made your decision to buy the package because you had faith that the spa will still be in existence for many years to come and offer you the benefits as promised.
Let’s now imagine that it’s a friend who set up this spa and came to you and asked you to part with over $1,000 to get that same course of spa treatments. You’re also aware that this friend of yours is quite a dreamer and have tried many new career pursuits. Would you still buy that spa package?
So my takeaway for this entry here before I call it a day is that sometimes in order to have faith in someone, success is irrelevant.
For the benefit of those who didn’t catch the movie, this was as written in its plot summary:
In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters' fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit "fixed us, every one of us."
The jockey, trainer and the horse were all viewed upon by society as failures and nobody took them seriously. The four of them, including Seabiscuit were brought together simply because the owner saw something unique in the trainer despite being a little ‘broken’. Amidst adversities, the union brought about numerous wins and captured the hearts of many.
Now how often do we have the faith and belief of our friends or loved ones that we’ll succeed even though we’ve failed so many times? And I don’t mean those people who pat you on your back and say in a bubbly, high-pitched tone, “aiya you can do it lah!” That sounded more like someone thinking, I better seem supportive so that in case this loser really succeeds, he/she would remember that I supported him/her and will hopefully share his/her wealth with me in the future. Or in a more politically-correct term, patronising.
Would you buy a racehorse which was smaller in size as compared with the other horses, had never won a race and had a track record of being lazy? So what was it that the trainer and the jockey saw in Seabiscuit that the rest of the world couldn’t see initially? I’m sure you’ve heard that many success stories came from people who were one or many-time failures. Bill Gates was a Harvard dropout. Sim Wong Hoo managed to attain his Polytechnic Diploma by scrapping through his exams. Tom Cruise was born dyslexic. Yeah, we’ve heard them all. But yet, why do we still so quickly doubt a friend’s or loved one’s ability to succeed?
Now let’s imagine that you were approached by a consultant in a fairly new spa and after a presentation of its benefits decided to buy a course of spa treatments. You most likely would have no idea of what kind of background the consultant came from as well as the background of the owner of the spa. You simply made your decision to buy the package because you had faith that the spa will still be in existence for many years to come and offer you the benefits as promised.
Let’s now imagine that it’s a friend who set up this spa and came to you and asked you to part with over $1,000 to get that same course of spa treatments. You’re also aware that this friend of yours is quite a dreamer and have tried many new career pursuits. Would you still buy that spa package?
So my takeaway for this entry here before I call it a day is that sometimes in order to have faith in someone, success is irrelevant.
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