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We are happy to announce our winners of 2009 HUMAN POTENTIAL NON-FICTION CONTEST

The winning entry for the Contest was awarded to Chitra Iyer for My Indian Awakening. The runner up is Sarah Miller, for Fragile Potential.
This year we decided that the essay The Most Interesting Man In Cambodia by Stephen Thomas will receive Honourable Mention.

The winner and runner-up entries are published on INHOUSEPRESS website.

The 2009 INHOUSEPRESS Non-Fiction Contest dealing with the subject of Human Potential attracted forty-one entries. Some submissions disqualified themselves by exceeding the number of words allowable. To include them would be unfair to those who stuck to the rules. A number of participants offered interesting essays, often attractive narratives, but not dealing directly with the subject matter. Others sounded much too much like fiction. Nevertheless, we are delighted by the response, and we thank all participants for their efforts. We hope to see your work again, when we announce the next contest. In the meantime, we wish you every success.

It is so easy to feel small. We spend most of our adult life measuring up to a benchmark set by people we never truly, instinctively respect or admire. And of course, we never quite measure up! Our social environment trains us to feel small because someone has a better car, a fancier designation, a better body. These artificial benchmarks that work to keep us small, drive us deeper in pursuit of 'more of the same'..it's a vicious cycle that fosters mediocrity, sameness, fear. It is the biggest enemy of human potential.

I spent my time wanting for things that belong to others. Chasing dreams that were someone else's reality. Accepting rewards bestowed by a select few who gain far more from my work than I do. Living a life dictated and judged by all but me! And yet, others admire me for how 'in control' I am! How successfully I have shaped my destiny, secured my future. But really, have I chosen this destiny? Truth is, this destiny chose me, and I never questioned it, in spite of a nagging feeling that I was missing something. An inner voice that urged me to push the boundaries was often ignored. I took the path of least resistance and I never fought back. I never made a case for dreaming my own dreams, defining my own rewards, or measuring myself against my own benchmarks. It is so easy to feel small. Requires so little effort! Human potential doesn't stand a chance of blooming when one isn't even looking for it. But a road trip across India last summer
changed that forever.

Epiphanies find it hard to squeeze into minds dulled by years of conditioning. But it turned out that on my Indian road trip epiphanies jostled for space and demanded more 'paradigm shifts' than a 3-day marketing seminar at the Taj! On this trip - a rare indulgence in a life dictated by worry and blackberry - I saw an India that didn't make me feel small. It made me feel humbled.

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When first I filled the glory of My heaven
With say a billion, perhaps a trillion stars,
I never thought, to My great disdain,
You'd fill your streets with just as many cars.

Just to enchant you; you my favourite children,
I gave you love'n beauty, above and below,
only to find, to my further chagrin
that even I can make a fundamental flow.

I thought I'd made you, truly in My likeness.
Hoping love'n beauty will give you a great thrill.
Alas even I, Almighty as I AM,
have erred, well... divinely, by giving you free will.

 Adam & Eve in steatite by Stanislaw Kapuscinski