Inspiration from (friendly) spam I received in my email….
Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983…
From the world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why did God have to select you for such a bad disease”?
To this Arthur Ashe replied:
“The world over, 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD ‘Why me?’. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD ‘Why me?’ “
From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease”?
To this Arthur Ashe replied:
“The world over, 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD ‘Why me?’. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD
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Great post Ravi.
Why ask why? Be thankful for our blessings. We all have a natural tendency to ask why me when things may not go the way we want them to, but we don’t ask why me when things go right.
I going to post this on my blog and link back to yours.
Thanks,
Robert