The Moral Vision
Try, Try, Try Again
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TRY, TRY, TRY AGAIN
A young man who was employed as an ordinary
worker in a Bidi factory soon learnt the entire art of
the business and set up his own factory. He initially
invested only Rs. 5000 in his business, but then by
dint of fifteen years’ hard work, his business
progressively increased until it expanded into a big
factory. One day, narrating his life story to his
friends, he said: “Just as a young child grows into
boyhood after fifteen years, so does a business. I
have not reached this stage in one day. It has been a
fifteen-year struggle.”
In truth every piece of work is accomplished in
“fifteen” years, be it of an individual or a nation, be
it a business or a social service. Those who long for
a recipe for instant success are, in fact, living in a
fool’s paradise. It is all very well to
say
that a hop,
step and jump can take you right to your
destination. But as soon as one comes face to face
with reality, one realises that this is just an illusion.
Glenn Cunningham, a sportsman who became
champion of the one-mile race, saw the school in
which he was studying go up in flames. His own
