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Don't Give Up on Your God Given Dreams
A lot of folks have abandoned the "uncertainty" of their dreams to seek refuge in the "security" of a paid job. There is nothing wrong in a retreat (losing the battle to win the war), but everything is wrong with total surrender, giving up and walking away without looking back.
In the previous article,the issue about your ability to run through to the finish line was settled. You can do it. Dreams do come true. Then why do folks give up?
Folks give up for a variety of reasons too. The major culprit is APPARENT FAILURE, when progress is not apparent and the urge to abort becomes almost overwhelming. From where you are standing, as far as you can see, it is all over.
There is no true success story that does not include a chapter on the dark night of discouragement, when failure seemed apparent and the urge to give up came on full blast. Every long distance runner faces discouragement and the urge to give up one time or the other in the race.
Orville and Wilbur Wright, the fathers of modern aviation knew failure was part of the package. They saw the finish line, and knew upfront they will have to pass failure boulevard as part of journey to the finish line - taking to the air. And they prepared for it. The searched out and found a large strech of sand where they can fail on. They built their contraption and pulled it out to the sand to start the trial runs.
They failed and failed, kept failing some more, again and again until one day like any other day, they took to the sky. The rest, as they say is history.
A read a very sad story of a man in the gold rush days of the American wild west who gave up three feet from gold, literally. He used his life savings to buy wagon and equipment and hired a team to join the California gold rush. With the help of a metallurgical engineer, he located a spot and commenced digging. He digged and digged for months but there was no sign of gold. He was gradually running out of money. After another week of no good news, he decided he has had enough. He disbanded his team and sold his equipment to another "russian" and sadly commenced the long journey home.
The new guy hired a metallurgical engineer to examine the rocks from the point where our guy stopped. The result; the rock formation showed that gold was close by. The new guy assembled his team and commenced digging. Within hours, they struck gold exactly three feet away from where the first guy gave up the fight. He gave up three feet from gold, after months of toil.
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