How Robert Bruce changed my life!!!!!!

How Robert Bruce changed my Life!!!!!!

If you ask me what the most important thing that you need to move forward and be successful in whatever you do is, I would say it is inspiration. It is always helpful to read some inspirational stories or quotes whenever we are pushed back to the walls. I even know people who derive inspiration from movies as well. But whatever the means be, people always search for a source of inspiration and accept it in whatever forms they come in. Modern political idols like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela is known to have been inspired by Gandhian principles and his philosophy of struggle. Even historical villainous character Adolph Hitler was inspired by Otto van Bismarck. Just goes to sure how a piece of inspiration can change life of millions of people around, change the course of history and leave an ever lasting impression till the world continues to exist.

But my experiences have taught me, however wonderful the inspiration is, sometimes they can have demoralizing, negative and disastrous effects.

The likes of Mahatma Gandhi, Socrates, Vivekananda, Mandela, Buddha, Christ and all have inspired people to greater heights. But the inspiration that I drew from Robert Bruce had a demoralizing impact on my life. Some might wonder how Robert Bruce could demoralize me. Yes, we are talking about the same Robert Bruce, who saw a spider spin its web while he was hiding in a cave. The spider only succeeded after several attempts which inspired Bruce to go out again for war and defeat the enemies. I don’t know if he really saw a spider or something and may be its just one of those folk tales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I_of_Scotland#Legends

Well you people could be wondering how a man of such a stature and capable of inspiring any man at any place around the world become a nightmare for me.

The instance that I am talking about is something personal. Like all the guys, I too had a crush on a girl when I was a teenager. But owing to many reasons that crush was not able to develop into a full fledged relationship. I never tried to find out why it didn’t work out well either. But in short I could say that the relationship was a disaster. I won’t say that I broke up with that girl, because there should be at least some sort of relationship between people if they have to break up. How could you expect relationship between two people who never talked to each other. So at the end it was like two strangers suddenly becoming enemies. I know it sounds weird.
Well let me clarify then. Though I had known that girl personally I never had the guts to talk to her in person. So all I did was to mail her. So once she understood that I had such an intention, she completely ignored me. So as any logical man would do, I too moved forward then.

But here is a twist in the tale. After many months of ignoring each other, we started communicating again, thanks to a popular social networking site. I think by that time I had matured enough to understand that just because she is talking to me doesn’t mean she has any sort of affection towards me. The relationship was quite like that between acquaintances. There always existed a mental block between us that always prevented us from talking openly or freely. I wanted to change that and become good friends with her but it remained the same.

Well you will be thinking now what Robert Bruce did in all this stuff. The villain Bruce is to enter now only.

So it all started while once she was online and as usual I typed, “HELLO”.I waited for sometime to get any reply but got no reply. Again I typed “HELLO”. Waited for quite sometime and again no response. So it was at this moment that I took inspiration from Robert Bruce. I typed, “HELLO. I AM INSPIRED BY ROBERT BRUCE, WONT GIVE UP THAT EASILY.”
Again seeing no response I presumed she might be offline. I chatted with many other people and did all my usual online works before logging out. What I actually meant was that I will type HELLO till I get any reply.

Next day I was online as usual. I logged into my social networking account. Just checked if I had any messages but there was not any. I thought about what had happened the previous day. I expected her reply but as I said I didn’t get any. So I decided to type her some message. I searched for her in my friends list but she was not in it. I searched for her in the site and finally found her profile. She was online and she had deleted me from her friends list. So I kept thinking why she should have deleted me from the friends list. A person who chatted with me normally deleted me all of a sudden. What wrong could I have done?

I knew what went wrong. It was ROBERT BRUCE for sure.
So what was that about Robert Bruce that made her delete me? I tried to figure out.
Since after this instance I had no communication with her, all I can do is to make logical guesses.
First of the many possible reasons can be, she might have thought whatever obstacles I face I will try to make her my date. Of course that could have been the reason for such a reaction.
May be she doesn’t even know who this Robert Bruce is and she can very well say, “IGNORANCE IS BLISS”.
May be she might have presumed that Robert Bruce was some fanatic or a barbarian and she would have thought I was threatening her.

But whatever she thought is now immaterial, because ROBERT BRUCE had destroyed that acquaintance forever. That marked the end of any sort of communication that continued to exist. My ego didn’t allow me to clear misunderstandings and that was the nail on the coffin. Because of Robert Bruce we were like total strangers when we finally did meet accidentally. A person who should be quite an unforgettable one is now nothing but another of the strangers.

That’s what Robert Bruce did to me. Robert Bruce destroyed relationship with a person whom I could never forget. I have come to understand that how ever wonderfully inspiring a person, a story or a situation may be, it can have disastrous effects.
Even now when I think of stories of inspiration I will never forget Robert Bruce, the King of Scotland.