107 Years Of Victory.

'

'It isn't

that

I don't know

about the

bad,

but

I think

about

the

good.'

107 years old

Alice Herz-Sommer,

a Jewish pianist

and

survivor of

Theresienstadt concentration camp

where about 35,000 prisoners perished.

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This long-living heroine

isn't born 

optimistic,

resilient,

and

fated to live past a century.

She just does
what most people
 don't do.

Alice 

disciplines

her

mind

to focus on

the 

good.

*

The turmoil 

Alice braved through

is 

definitely much more

unbearably brutal 

compared to our

 wildest imagination.

Having her

husband taken away to Auschwitz 

one day

and

never see him again,

how did she feel?

Waking and sleeping

amidst blood-curdling wails of pain

from the torture chambers,

what did she imagine?

Forced to live and slave away

 in 

irrationally poor conditions,

where your name is replaced with 

a serial number


and
given black water coffee for breakfast, 
white water soup for lunch
 black water soup for dinner,

what did she 

repeatedly think about

through each day?

*

This gung-ho centurion 

was

weak,

helpless

and

powerless

in her situation

but

strong,

full of hope

and

powerful

and 

in

 total control

of herself -

her 

mind.

*

Instead of 

wallowing in her pathetic state,

Alice 

surely

made a 

determined decision 

to 

do the opposite 

of what human nature

would have done in 

such circumstances.

Alice 

did not allow

her enemies 

to 

steal her life away

from her.

Alice 

chose

to 

live.

Everyday,

she saw people 

surrendering 

themselves to
 suicide.

'Hundreds and hundreds 
died around us
everyday.'
she recalls.

Instead of believing

death would relief pain,

our heroine

believed 

to live

is

her 

greatest mockery 

against the enemies.

And she 

repeatedly thought about

 this,

every moment

she was tempted to surrender.

At sunrise,

she reminded 

herself

to 

wake up 

and 

live.

In her chains,

she always imagined

the day they are broken.

She 

hoped 

and

 kept on hoping.

She was not any bit

naive,

but

 she was just

believing. 

Alice didn't just 

live.

She 

bore and raised

a few more generations.

This is

 thousands of times greater

mockery 

to her enemies.

Till today,

she lives

 to tell a story.

Alice continues to 

be a walking testimony of

hope, faith and love.

*

Optimism 

is potent

enough to 

 fuels

you

forward

through 

the darkest 

past and present 

of

fear,

injustice,

torture

and 

break you

through 

into a 

future of

victorious living.

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