If you can IMAGINE it, you can ACHIEVE it…… if you can DREAM it, you can BECOME it….!
You should fill your life with experiences not excuses. I am sure we have complained or heard someone complain on how unfair life is. However, one has to wonder how people succeed despite life being unfair. Life teaches you some painful lessons. But it is from adversity that strength is born. You may have lost the innings, but you’ll win the game. Everyone has to face challenges in his or her life, but it is the way the individual handles a challenging situation makes a person successful or not. There are many case studies before us of people who had to beat the odds to get success.

Some of the examples of women are Shanaaz Hussain, queen of herbal beauty products, created a beauty products empire by scratch all by herself, beating the odds that she was a Muslim woman in a male dominated world. She created a niche for herself being a smart entrepreneur full of enthusiasm and passion for work. Oprah, Michael Obama, Sonia Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Aishwarya Rai are other examples of powerful women who have become icons, a power house on their own. These individual’s contributions to the society has made them famous but imagine, if they had spent their time complaining on how unfair life has been for them.
We all know that the world is not perfect. There are many injustices in the world and make us feel that life is not being fair to us. Fighting injustice is a noble cause, but fighting against it may make the injustice stronger. The key is to know how to fight injustice and one way is to make injustice irrelevant by learning to work over it, around it, through it and make it irrelevant. The concept of eye to eye is one way of fighting injustice in the world, but the result is both parties involved lose and the world becomes a terrible place to live.
Alternatively, if we work on identifying the root cause that makes the many injustices in the world and come up with creative ways to make injustice irrelevant, we can say that we can succeed in spite of life bring unfair.

For example think of a person who has just lost his job in recession. He could spend his time complaining about how life has been unfair to her by taking away his job. Instead, he preps himself for the next job. Builds on his strengths, creates a network of people who can share and appreciate his work. He thinks of giving back to community when he has just lost his way of making a living.
Terry Fox created a legacy of opting to run across Canada in spite of having Cancer. Just as Helen Keller (American author, lecturer, political activist) showed the world that being deaf and blind didn’t deter a person from achieving unprecedented success in life. All these examples illustrate the point that problems are actually opportunities in disguise.
Success examples are not limited to only a few people but we can apply the principles to our lives/ situation.
In these tough economic times it is common for people to lose their jobs however, the ones who accept the environment changes without complaining can bounce back fast. Mr. A lost his job during recession. He was very upset and conclude that life is not fair to him because he was the chosen one! While it is normal to feel this way when you lose your job, the only problem was that Mr. A did not get over this feeling and got into a habit of complaining about everything. Over a period of time Mr. A became known as a complainer and even friends who wanted to help him did not feel like it. Mr. A remained unemployed even when the economy turned around. Instead of complaining we have to learn to deal with the challenges in a positive manner. Instead of complaining we should take a step back and examine the whole situation and take action to live life to the fullest by facing the challenges that come our way with courage and determination. We have to remember that despite the fact that life is full of unfairness and inequity there are many workable and creative ways to rise above the negative circumstances. Stop complaining and just move forward!