[nukkad] Inspiration Moment -Thirty-Nine Years - Too Short - Too Long - Long Enough

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Thirty-Nine Years - Too Short - Too Long - Long Enough

>From 1929 to 1968 is only 39 short years. 
Too short to gather the fruits of your labor 
Too short to comfort your parents when your brother drowns 
Too short to comfort your father when mother dies 
Too short to see your children finish school 
Too short to ever enjoy grandchildren 
Too short to know retirement 
Thirty-nine years is just too short. 
>From 1929 to 1968 is only 39 short years, yet it's Too Long
Too long to be crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination, it's 
Too long to stand in the quicksand of racial injustices, it's 
Too long to receive threatening phone calls, often at the rate of forty per
day, it's 
Too long to live under the sweltering heat of continuous pressure, it's 
Too long, 39 years is just too long. 
>From 1929 to 1968 is only 39 short years, yet it's Long enough. 
It's long enough to journey all the way to India to learn under a great
teacher how to walk through angry crowds and keep cool. 
It's long enough to be chased by police dogs and lashed by the rushing
waters from the fireman's hoses because you are dramatizing the fact that
justice has a way of eluding me and my brother. 
It's long enough to spend many days in jail while protesting the plight of
others. 
It's long enough to have a bomb thrown into your home. 
It's long enough to teach angry violent men to be still while you pray for
the bombers. 
It's long enough. 
It's long enough to lead many men to Christianity. 
It's long enough to know it's better to go to war for justice than to live
in peace with injustices. 
It's long enough to know that more appalling than bigotry and hatred are
those who sit still and watch injustices each day in silence. 
It's long enough to realize that injustices are undiscriminating and people
of all races and creeds experience its cruel captivity sooner or later. 
It's long enough. 
It's long enough to know that when one uses civil disobedience for his civil
rights, he does not break the laws of the Constitution of the United States
of America - rather he seeks to uphold the principles all men are created
equal; he seeks to break down local ordinances that have already broken the
laws of the Constitution of the United States. 
It's long enough. 
It's long enough to accept invitations to speak to the nation's leaders. 
It's long enough to address thousands of people on hundreds of different
occasions. 
It's long enough to lead 200,000 people to the nation's capital to dramatize
that all of America's people are heirs to the property of rights to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 
It's long enough to enter college at 15. 
It's long enough to finish and earn several degrees. 
It's long enough to earn hundreds of awards. 
It's long enough to marry and father four children. 
It's long enough to become a drum major for peace. 
It's long enough to earn a Nobel Peace Prize. 
It's long enough to give the $54,000 prize money to the cause of justice. 
It's long enough to visit the mountain top. 
It's certainly long enough to have a dream. 
When we note how much Martin Luther King packed into 39 short years, we know
it's long enough for any man who loves his country and his fellow man so
much that life itself has no value - unless all men can sit at the table of
brotherhood as brothers. Thirty-nine years is long enough - for any man to
knowingly flirt with death each day of his life - because to spare himself
heartaches and sorrow meant two steps backward for his brother tomorrow. 
Martin lived for several centuries, all rolled into 39 short years. His
memory will live forever. How wonderful it would be if we could all live as
well. 
Martin, like all others, would have welcomed longevity - yet when he weighed
the facts, he said, "It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the
time allotted him." 
And so we salute and honor the memory of a man who lived in the confusion of
injustice for all his too short, too long, long enough 39 years- "For He's
Free At Last."
	

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Submitted by Subramanian KRV

Its not the number of years you lived counts - Its how you have lived those
years that counts 

Thanks  KRV   for sharing this Wonderful story with us .

Celebrate Life .....Great Day.... 

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