A story of a born sicklier

Anthony Burgess. At forty, was confirmed by his doctor that he has only one more year to live. Just one year . He had a brain tumor that would kill him within a year. He knew he had a battle at hand. He was completely broke at this time as he had nothing to leave behind for his unborn child and wife, soon to be a widow.

Burgess never in his life time thought he could be a professional novelist, but he always knew the potentials was inside him to become a writer.

So for the sole purpose of leaving a royalty behind for his family, he put a piece of paper into a typewriter and began writing. He had no certainty that it would even be publish before his time lapse on earth, but he couldn't think of anything else to do.

“It was January 1960” he said “and according to prognosis, I had a winter and spring and summer to live through and would die with the fail of the leaf”. In that time he wrote energetically, finishing five and a half novels before the year ran through.

But as God's wisdom will prove medical verdict wrong, Burgess did not die.(it wasn’t told how the miracle happened) His sickness has gone into remission and then disappeared altogether. In his long and full life as a novelist (he is best known for clockwork orange). He wrote more than 70 books, but without the death sentence from cancer he may not have written at all. Today he has properties worth millions of dollars!

Lessons:

Don’t be a victim of circumstance.

I reasoned that the trauma would have killed him quicker if he did not channel it to achieving success. Indeed he turned his pain to prosperity as he overlooked his ill condition (circumstance).

Man is a function of what he hears- the news you access is what defines the changes in your life. He is a function of what he thinks- as a man think, so he is. He is a function of what he believes- what you believe will influence how you behave.

Never allow your circumstance to limit you in any way. If you are limited in mind, you will be limited in life. I'm sure you must have heard about the millionaire without arms and the likes of others.