Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Hardwork is the mother of good luck

Work is worship. Work done with our heart and soul wholly in it making full use of the available time is hard work.
Hard work is the mother of good luck. If a person, we know, gets thro’ his examination, say IAS, we invariably declare that he is crowned with luck. But, we fail to understand the sleepless nights he had spent and the mid-night oil he had burnt before he met with his success.

Robert Bruce did not win the war just by chance nor did Alexander annex a major part of Europe and India because luck favoured him .What amount of labour and perseverance went in unnoticed before their final success is anybody’s guess.

It is not just because of luck that a tiny creature like ant builds a big ant hill or honey bees their cities of wax. A farmer cannot reap a high yield just because he sows the seeds. Columbus did not reach America because he knew that Earth is round or because winds were favourable.Seeing all these, we wonder how deftly and dexterously they did work. But it is not difficult to guess what amount of practice and hard work is needed to reach that state of perfection.

To believe that luck or good fortune are at the root of success, is in a way escapism. If luck alone is to lead us to success, there is no need to work at all. We can simply wait for luck to come and garland us. Our philosophy which recognizes the hand of fate behind our successes and failures declares that on no account should we refuse to do our duty. Our duty is to think that work is sacred and that it has to done with our hearts and souls wholly in it. We should remember that nothing solid and substantial can be achieved without hard, sincere and honest work because “Faint hearts can never win fair ladies and wishes can never make beggars ride on horses”

In this competitive world nothing is really achieved without hardwork.Like quick money, quick success is also quick to vanish. Success begotten in such a fashion is hardly enjoyable. Only such success is enjoyable which is earned thro’earnest work.

Hard work makes a person self reliant. It infuses in him, a sense of pride, of faith, a spirit of self confidence and self respect. Loyally supporting the physical fitness of an individual, hardwork builds a person’s character rich, profound and complex. Thus a person’s success could be attributed to his hard work as it makes him reckless in services, unceasing in activities, merciless in attacks, profound and versatile in wisdom.

Consider these two cases of history. When Lincoln was alone with politics in white house, in those dark days of civil wars, what would have happened to the Union but for his hard work and powerful will to save it. Consider again the great zeal of Winston Churchill which played a decisive role in 2nd world war. What would have happened to England and Europe, now enjoying prosperity, but for the man’s powerful will who declared, he had nothing else to offer except blood, tears and sweat.

In general, if we see the lives of those, who were once in a very bad shape, and were later found to rise thro’ the shambles, we shall discover, in every single case, it was their hard work which brought about their transformation and rise.
Thus, given the hard work and earnestness, man makes everything out of nothing as it were. In the absence of these, all his endowments, qualities and talents land in nothing.

The heights great men reached and kept were not achieved by sudden flight.They, while their companions slept, were boiling upward in the night with all their might.

There is no single person on this earth who would not like to achieve something great and earn fame. But the path leading to success is not strewn with lilies and roses; often it is full of stones and thorns. A lot of courage and conviction is needed to undertake this uphill journey. But for a hard worker, nothing is impossible-the Himalayas are not too high to climb, the moon is not too far to reach.

With a firm conviction in the values we hold near and dear, we should proceed undaunted by the hurdles. We too can do what others have done. Our ideal is the spirit.Behold! Nothing else exists except HARD WORK-The celebrated thought of the world.