The Greatest Moment of Your Life
The great moments, when the world cheers, are not the moments that count. The ones that count are when it’s just you, and people have stopped believing in you. Those are the moments that define you.
— Bob Greene
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How very true. Think of all of those whom the world has “written off” as failures, and then consider how they rose above the ranks to heights of genius or personal triumph that surpassed anything anyone might ever have dreamed.
Edison, labeled retarded by his school-teachers, who went on to invent the light bulb (among many other things).
Semmelwiess, ridiculed by his doctor colleagues for his insistence on washing hands between patients, who kept up his practise and has now been praised for having the courage to insist on cleanliness — the forerunner of our modern demands for sterility in medical practise.
Leeuwenhoek, initally laughed to scorn for his insistence that his specially-ground lenses revealed “animalcules” in his water, tooth scrapings, and other sources. He discovered blood cells, sperm cells, bacteria, foraminifera, nematodes, rotifers, and many of the other “invisible” beings that inhabit the world.
So who’s to say? Perhaps the very thing that you are being ridiculed for, rejected for, persecuted for, today may become the thing that you are praised and immortalised for tomorrow.