bad, good, great

I was wondering while watching the movie 'The pursuit of happyness' - why do we always hear only the stories of heroes who transform themselves from a bad to a great situation. What about so many people who are comfortably placed in good situations through out their lives - we don't hear any stories of such people transforming from good to great - do we?

May be because there aren't any such stories - the one that comes close is the book: "Good to Great!" So, why don't we have such instances where people who are leading comfortable life-styles transforming themselves to great folks?

There is a story which probably might explain this phenomenon - there are two birds sitting on a perch near a military airport; The younger bird, seeing a jet fly high, asks her mother why they can't fly like that BIG BIRD? Mother bird replies - "do you see the fire coming at its back? if we have such fire in our belly, we will fly such heights :)" So, the answer is "fire in the belly"

Dire circumstance naturally ignites that fire in most people, some of them never extinguish it and reach great heights. It might be difficult to ignite such fire in our belly, if we are a couch potato or indisciplined brat or dream-less/hope-less saint! I somehow believe that its your dream which ignites that fire called 'Passion' irrespective of your situation.

au revoir...Satish