There has been stories of people who have done extraordinary achievements in the short span of their life and the history bears testimony to those things. After years and century ahead of those setting stones, we still get to know about them and cast a view over it because they were big enough to be noted by historians, solid in the infrastructure and durable enough to keep the shape years the same.
So what is unique in the approach to build the uniquely true stature and mindset behind them ?
I have been looking at the factors and hidden psychology of those builders who built extraordinary things. There are many people who were good enough to carry on doing the work, some possessed unique ability, immense strength and determination, even the strong political power behind those initiatives.
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It is a fact to wonder and to share the personal insight of mine that, when great things are achieved, thats because more and more people were associated with building the structure, having potential resources and technical skills, the craftsmen and even the soft & hard labour behind to build and carry on constructing for a longer period of time, until it is built.
I am going to exemplify Mughal Emperor Shahjahan who was the 5th successive ruler of the dynasty that ruled over India and the whole of sub-continent nearly 400 years at a stretch without facing major challenges from the external forces outside of Mughal territory.
So the sovereignty was unquestioned. Being such power and Shahjahan being the supreme ruler of it had a desire to build a tomb which would commemorate his late wife whom he loved as much as his reign and worldly affairs to some extent.
As his desire so as the idea to make the tomb come to a reality. TajMahal is the name of the tomb and to build the infrastructure to the current shape we see it now - it took 22 craftsmen to work day in and out over more than 2 decades of time, the valuable marble stoned ingredient that the structure is composed with.
It went on and Shahjan started to get old, but although he faced some challenges to build it and the other factors were a subject to think and consider, even he saw the reserves to be getting shrinked and he is executing a lot of money into the hobby he is fascinated at. That was epic !
Yet he continued building it something gigantic, majestic and wonderful and no intentions to be in the page of history, because nothing really matters unless it is done with enough passion into it.
History will follow great achievements spontaneously, it is the common nature that always happen in the same manner and looking at the past we only can see it and understand.
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Great Emperor Shahjahan wanted to let himself commemorate and others to know about his love even after centuries past, that love never dies and souls depart from earth and it goes on to a much deeper destinations. History noted his accomplishment as one of the 7 wonders of the world, Shahjahans name not in the list of great ruler, but His Tajmahal the best in the 7th of wow !
Its the contributions that last .
We can learn something from here and the primary message that goes is to have the insight and merriment in doing whatever smaller to bigger things we do and make until they are done and we keep the legacy for the future to come.
Have smaller wishes, but make sure to make them large.