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Zeal is the word for today
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Zeal is the word for today at A
to Z blog challenge the brain child of the wonderful blogger cum writer ArleeBird
We are at the finishing line,
though few left behind, many could touch the finish line. There is a reason for my selection of this word
for today.
I am sure we all had this zeal
in the initial stage of this challenge, and that zeal lead us to reach here at
the end of the challenge.
Zeal: The dictionary meaning
says = Enthusiasm, Passionate, ardor etc… Yes, our enthusiasm brought us
thus far.
We all need this zeal in our
daily life to lead a victorious or successful life.
Though on the way we may face
different kinds of hurdles, failures and problems, if we have the zeal to go
forward it that surely takes us to reach the goal.
We know many such people in the
pages of history, even in spite or their problems and difficulties the zeal
they had helped them to reach to the success line.
let us look into few of such examples,
since we are all involved in the field of writings, I am sure this will be an encouraging
one to move forward, and no doubt, their zeal for their goal will be a guide to
all of us.
Sometimes you may be surprised
to know this. Many of the world famous
writers and their works were rejected several time by the publishers, but they
did not looked back instead they sacrificed their time and energy to go forward. With a great zeal
they went forward and reached at the success line.
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The famous book "Gone with the Wind" written by Margaret Mitchell was rejected by twenty five publishers, and
later it bagged the famous Pulitzer Prize.
So is the case with George Orwell’s "Animal farm" and "Ann Frank’s Diary", sixteen publishers rejected these works and
later become famous and counted as the great works of 20th Century.
The list continues, the following
famous writers’ writings too were rejected several times.
William Gold’s "Lord of the
flies", (Later he got Nobel Prize for literature)
Joseph Heller’s "Catch 22" (greatest work of 20th Century)
J K Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”
(more than 4 crores of books sold out later in the series of Harry potter)
William Falkner’s “Sanctuary” (he bagged Nobel Prize for literature)
Irving Stone’s “Lust for Life” (later more than two crores
sold out)
Rudyar Clippings stories,(later
he got Nobel Prize for Literature)—the publishers just rejected his writings
with a note saying “do not know how to write in English”
The interesting part is that they
never got dejected or looked back, instead with great zeal they went forward
and achieved their goal.
We need to have this kind of
zeal in our life, not only in writing field, but in any field one need to have
a kind of zeal to achieve the goal, definitely he can win the race with flying
colors, yes, for this we need to have great patience along with the zeal.
Let us take one or two leaves
from their life. May these wonderful
people’s life be an example or guide to us. Let us have the same ZEAL that they all had. As one of the A to Z face-page story said, "This is not the end of it," yes, let us continue our journey along with BLOGGING!!!
We at Philipscom Wish You All A Happy Blogging!!!
Have a wonderful time of
friendship and blogging.
Thanks to Arlee Bird and Associates
for allowing us to take part in this wonderful and great event.
Best Regards
P V Ariel & Associates
Secunderabad, India
