Few years before, it was the time of summer holidays. I decided to go to our village to see my grand father there. Living there in the village with my grandfather and other relatives were always a good utilization of holidays for me. A village life is lot more different from urban livings. The simplicity and peace of life in a village is the reason why rural tourism is becoming popular in India.
Any way, I always feel lucky that I have my village where my grandfather lived. Most of my friends have no one in village, so that they have never been to there. Their conception about villages is there are backward areas with dirty roads, mud houses and uneducated people. For me villages are such a place where one can see and understand the nature better. The whole time I spent there I learnt some valuable morals of life.
My grandfather was a school teacher. He taught the neighborhood children in the evening in balcony of our village house. After completion of regular studies, grandfather used to narrate stories to the children, which I would never miss. One such story which I liked the most I am going to tell you.
A young man from a village completed his Graduation in Arts by giving tuition to the students near by his college hostel. As he was very poor, he struggled hard to complete his graduation. He was willing to go for further studies, but was unable to pay the academic dues. So, after completion he decided to job to make his ends meet. But, as an arts graduate he faced lots of difficulties to get a job. Thus, once he opted to go for an interview for a peon post in a company. Everything went good, but in the last round of talk he was asked for his Email-id which he had not any. So, he was disqualified just because of an email-id. He was a bit harassed, but didn’t give up. He planned that he would start a coaching center, as a full time work. He did so. After couple of years his dedication gave him the reward, he had 5 coaching centers in the city by then. Later he opened a residential school and soon his institution became a highly profitable organization.
He became famous as a successful businessman. He was counting his success by both his hands. Once, a press reporter wanted to take an interview of that businessman. The reporter interviewed him about his success. When concluding the interview, the reporter wanted the email-id of the businessman as a contact option. The businessman replied that he had not any email-id and he was not even using computers. The reporter exclaimed and asked the businessman how he could achieve all that success without having an email-id and computers. If I had an email-id I would have worked as peon in a company, the businessman replied with a smile.
This story had a great impact on me. I realized that one can achieve success with limited resources available to him. We all who are from upper middle and rich families live in a comfort zone. Our demands are fulfilled immediately. We always explain our failures by blaming resources or facilities we had. Without Computers, Internet, private coaching we feel like we are in a third world where learning and working is impossible to carry on. But, we mustn’t forget those people who have achieved success without any helping sources. There are students who secure more than 95% marks in exams. They belong to poor families where having a resource like a computer is out of question. Students having lots of textbooks and reference books secure miserable marks. But poor fellows unable to buy books secure higher marks just by going through the notes collected. So, from the day, I heard this story, which could be a fiction, but influenced me a lot. Now, I believe that if one has courage, dedication and passion for his work, he will certainly achieve success even with limited helping resources.
