[Journal Review] Attitude

We cannot control life, the joy and the sorrow of it, the achievement or otherwise, but one thing we ought to be able to control and that is our attitude to it. We can, I believe, make a work of art out of our lives, a song or a beautiful melody, even though that song may clutch at the throat and bring tears to the eyes. No one can deny us that artistry of living if we are ourselves capable of it - if we are capable . It is a big if! Not to reject life but to accept it in all its fullness, and yet to go throug it finely and with light steps and refusing to allow it to besmirth us. That is a worthwhile ideal, a difficult undertaking, and the very few who may have the good fortune to approach it can never regret the choice. Success if it comes, comes with no tinsel or vulgarity; failure itself approaches with noble and tragic mien. (An Excerpt from Jawaharlal Nehru's letter written to his sister from Naini Central Prison, Sep. 12, 1934.)