An anecdote from me

Long ago, I heard a story. It was about a scientist - a lone scientist, who every time used to try something to reach to his destination. He was doing some research about existence of the sixth most abundant element ‘Carbon’. During his quest, he used to spend most of his time in the lab and try weirdest things possible. He found many unique properties. He proved that graphite in nothing but one of its allotropes. Having seen his discoveries, his king became so happy and threw a party for him; and in his reverence, he gifted him a beautiful and costly diamond. The scientist returned home, sat before the chimney fire, saw the diamond and started thinking what to do with this. He could not find any usefulness. After sometime he became very irritated with himself and threw it in fire. When he was cleaning the area in the morning, he happened to see that the diamond became totally black. Then, some idea triggered into his mind. He investigated further. Finally, he found the third allotrope that was nothing but diamond.

Before, you start digging unknown pages in history, just to find out the authenticity of this story, I must confess I have no proof about whether it truly happened during the entire history of Carbon or not. But, this story taught me many great lessons - even I can list them. Winners don’t do different things, but they do things differently - obviously, most of the times amusing and to the some extent insanely. They see things from a different frame of reference. I doubt any achiever would have evaded himself of being declared insane in his entire life. He must have gotten the tag of sheer lunacy from the eyes of sympathy at one point of time or other.

When you follow the aberration, you find yourself alone. You can hardly see anyone alongside you. At the best of your luck, you will have few people around following some different aberrations. It might give you little solace, but in the end, you will be all alone. Your journey will be tortuous and torturous and full of new challenges and adventures. You might succeed or fail. If you succeed, you will make a new path for your followers. And you fail, you will be known as a born loser or an absolute fighter at your own terms. In both the cases, you will be an example to be given – either about following you or exactly opposite. People will love you or hate you. But, they will not be able to ignore you. This is nothing but a generic story of any success or failure.

So, now a question arose in my mind. Is it only success, which has been given utmost importance, which shapes our life? I suppose ‘No’. When you fail, you eliminate the ways which not to be followed. For example, Edison had tried almost ten thousand ways before he succeeded to invent a bulb. When he was asked about the same, he replied I found ten thousand ways from which a bulb could not be made; they only showed me the way, how to make a bulb.

The most important thing in life is struggle. It is present at every step. You never know when you will hit the right chord. You just need a single opportunity, just a single impulse to blow all the obstacles you have been obstructed by. You suddenly start feeling lucky. It is rightly said that luck is the rendezvous where preparedness meets opportunity. You may not be sure of when you will get opportunity, but you can definitely prepare yourself for the awaiting opportunity.

Now, I must end my blog here. I know it is full of serious fundas. My friends are definitely going to kill me after reading this. This one, I have written for myself. Whenever I feel low and dejected I can read it and increase the flow of blood in my veins.

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