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Anything Can Happen
By: John Di Lemme.
The other day I was reading a very interesting article concerning a shark attack that occurred way back in 1916. It played off along the North East coast of the U.S. and concerned a great white shark, that had been had been terrorizing the New Jersey beaches.
Now everybody knows and accepts that a shark is a creature from the sea and requirements salty drinking water to survive. Consequently nobody thought that the shark might assault them in freshwater, but that's exactly what happened later that year.
This specific shark remained close towards the shore and eventually swam up a river stream close to Raritan Bay, attacking a couple of bathers upstream.
Shortly prior to the attacks occurred, a retired Sea captain, through the name of Thomas Cottrell saw this shark swimming upstream although crossing a bridge. He could not think his eyes, but nevertheless obtained into his boat and raised the alarm. Not surprisingly nobody considered him. "A shark inside a river? C'mon, get real, It's not possible."
But you know what? As incredible as it seemed there was a shark in the river and all those who didn't heed the warnings were in danger of being attacked.
Eventually this shark killed two people. The first victim was a teenager who may or may not have heard Cottrell's warning. Shortly after this attack another man jumped in the water to look for the victim, even though he was told there is a shark in the water. He too was attacked and died from a severe loss of blood.
While examining this I could not assist thinking about September 11 and see the parallels between these two tales.
When asked by the U.S. Congress and the media, why "clues" which should have been picked up were disregarded, the heads of the FBI and CIA as well as members of the Bush administration replied, "We didn't think they would use airplanes as missiles."
Experienced the FBI and CIA considered that some thing like what happened on 9/11 was possible they might have put actions into location which would likely have prevented this from happening. But they didn't, although the hijackers left dozens of "clues."
Similarly if the swimmers at the US East Coast experienced believed Captain Cottrell when he informed them there was a shark within the river, chances are that nobody would are already killed by this shark on that evening.
But simply because they believed it's "impossible" to get a shark to be present in freshwater they disregarded the warning altogether, just since the US law enforcement companies did, resulting in many spending with their lives.
On the other hand there are human beings who overcame extraordinary odds and accomplished great feats. Everyday we hear stories of people who were told by the so-called "experts" they didn't have what it took, yet made it regardless.
The lesson here is that anything is feasible, both the good and the poor. By believing or not believing in something doesn't necessarily mean you'll not be impacted by what ever happens. However it signifies that based on what you believe, you might consider some action which may conserve you from something awful or may get you out of the terrible situation.
There are many of us who are in terrible situations, including poverty, unhappiness, debt, etc. Those of us who have changed their situation, did it because they believed they could make it.
Those who don't obviously don't believe that they can change their situation otherwise they would have done something about it, right?
How numerous opportunities have you missed just because you believed it wouldn't work or wasn't feasible. Just think what you could do should you considered that you could do anything, even realise your dreams?
What great talent do you have which you have done nothing about, because you probably believed you can't do it.
I hope to possess proven you via this short article that something is feasible. And that by just believing, "I Can," your battle is currently half-won.
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