True Story : Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay is a person name. Probably, some of us will say what a weird name it is and where this person come from? Perhaps, some of us already know this name or even don’t know at all. How about Sir Edmund Hillary? Yes, of course everyone know his big name.

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first climber who climbed the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. But, at this moment we are not discussing about Sir Edmund Hillary as the first highest mountain climber in the world, but Tenzing Norgay.

Tenzing Norgay was a native from Nepal who worked as way guider for the climbers who want to climb the Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay (Nepal people called him Sherpa) was the guide for Sir Edmund Hillary. On 29 may 1953 at 11.30, Tenzing Norgay with Sir Edmund Hillary successfully climbed the mount Everest, at the height 29,028 feet above the sea, and became the first person who then gave inspiration to other climbers to follow his achievement.

From 1920 until 1952, 7 expedition team who were trying to conquer the mount Everest were failed. Sir Edmund Hillary’s Success Story at that time was so phenomenal, for the Word War II just ended and became an inspirator to rebuild the self confidence to the world.

For his success Sir Edmund Hillary got a epithet from England Queen who just been inaugurated, she was Queen Elizabeth II and became the famous person throughout the world. But behind his success, Tenzing Norgay had a big role, however, why Tenzing Norgay unknown, and got everything as Sir Edmund Hillary did? Because he was the guide who helped and escorted Sir Edmund Hilllary up to the Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay could put his first foot on the Mount Everest not Sir Edmund Hillary.

Mean while, after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay came back from the Mount Everest. All reporters chasing and contended to have an interview with Sir Edmund Hillary, and only one reporter who interviewed Tenzing Norgay.

Here it is the interview :

Reporter :”How is your feeling by conquering the Mount Everest”

Tenzing Norgay : “Very Happy”

Reporter : “you just a Sherpa (a guide) for Edmund Hillary, of course you are in front of him, shouldn’t you be the first person who put your foot on the Mount Everest?”

Tenzing Norgay :”yes, that’s true. At the last steps, I let him to put his foot and became the first person who climbed the Mount Everest.”

Reporter : “why did you do that”

Tenzing Norgay : “because that was his dream, not mine. My dream was sucessfully escorted him and helped him chased his dream”

That is a story about Tenzing Norgay who is so happy and candor to help everyone to attain his success without thinking about his self.

~What a great story, the chivalry and attitude of Tenzing Norgay, because of other prominence, without thinking the reward, of course giving a big motivation to appreciate the humble attitude. If we can think and act like he did, truly, this world are lived by a humble person with a great thought and wise heart. We do hope this story become an inspiration for us as a model pattern to everyone~

The Wonder Machine

In one evening, a young lady was sitting at the airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Surabaya. One hour remaining from the flight schedule, she felt impatience, so that she began to make herself busy to spend the time at that lounge. Accidentally, she saw a machine which was located closely where the lady sit.

“The Wonder Machine” as it was written on it.

Curious to know what it was, she was approaching that machine and began to read the information that was posted aside the machine :

“Insert a coin to this hole and the machine will read about you.”

She inserted a coin and the machine began to say :

“Good evening, Your name is Jane, 166 cm high, 50 kg weight, and waiting for a flight to Surabaya”

She was shocked because all information the machine gave were extremely correct. Her curiousity culminated. She inserted a coin again, and the machine said :

“good evening, your name is still jane, 166cm high, 50 kg weight, and you are still waiting for a flight to Surabaya.”

In her curiousity, that lady was thinking, probably there was a camera on this machine so that the machine could recognize her clothes, so that, she went to the restroom to change her clothes and her make up.

With her new look, she inserted a coin into that machine, and the machine said :

“good evening, you are still jane, your height still 166 cm, your weight still 50 kg, but you have missed the flight 15 menit ago.”

~what have been told from the story above, always happen in our daily life. We never realize that we are often involved with the ego. Always wasting the chance, suspicious and impatience in waiting for success, without doing meaningful action to satisfy our ego. Whereas, success should be reached with patience, diligent, big effort and high motivation. Without all of that, certainly success will leave us, remember, success will be ours, if we always appreciate the chance~

(this article was adapted from an e-mail sent to bodhitaruna@gmail.com, and there is no name inserted as the request from the sender)