There have been a million Google
searches every day as per an Internet survey of keywords like “Easiest path to
success” or “The formula to instant success” and so on. This clearly puts into
light the fact that tons of people have been trying to find a short cut to
success. So people have been blinded by
the inspiring sentences stating that there is a short cut to success.
Two men met at a
mountaineering seminar. One of the men stated his experience of scaling the
peak. According to him, he scaled the peak without any oxygen requirements,
without overcoming the hurdles or a single plight. The path was smooth and
strong enough to prevent his collapse. He said that he had gained success
easily. The other men heard keenly but then he put forward his experience.
According to him, he summoned an acute need for oxygen, he was taken over twice
by an avalanche, the rocks on the path stumbled down thrice plunging his life
at stake. For him, the path to success was unfavorable, unconditional and
extremely difficult. So considering the
words of the first person, one might conclude that there is a short cut to
success which does not require determination and hard work. But later on it was
revealed that the first person had scaled Mount Kinabalu (4000 mtrs) and the
second one had scaled Mt. Everest (8000mtrs).
The first person
had gained a cut short success, i.e., the achievement of scaling a low peak as
he had adopted a short cut, i.e., an easy mountain to scale. So this simple
example has a deep meaning underneath it. The path to success is long and
coarse. Moreover, success isn’t truly speaking a materialistic commodity. It is
in reality extreme happiness of a heart. So materialistic gains could be gained
easily by paying a dozen of heavy notes, but joy of the heart is quite
difficult to gain.
A potter shapes
the pot quite carefully; he smacks at the mud and then shapes it. The more he
hits the mud slightly with his hands, the more does the pot get stronger. If instead, the potter in quest of instant
success hurries up his task and in two or three hits finishes it up, then
definitely he does achieve his task. But the pot carved by him is short-lived,
i.e., it gets broken in a frail of time and is quite week. So the lazy potter attains a cut short
success.
Life is nothing
but a pinch of sand, which needs to be seasoned before making a sand castle. A
single day work out might help in leading until a short distance in an athletic event,
but then the stamina fades away and only the person who had been working since
months or years wins the first place.
If there had been
a shortcut to success, then almost all the people on Earth would have attained
success and the word “success” would not have been as vital in life. In each
person’s life there are failures and achievements. The winner loses some or the
other day. This is because it is a cut short of success. Actually this is
unstable success achieved through short leaps of tries. But actual success is
when winning or losing doesn’t matter or when fortune and misfortune are one
and the same. So when antonyms seem to a person as synonyms- “success” is
achieved.
A player of a high
jumping event moves a few distance away before taking a high jump. The lesser
the distance he moves back, the lesser is the height to which he succeeds to
jump. So if a person tries to jump from a point very near to the platform,
i.e., takes a shortcut to success, then he could only succeed in jumping to a
very low height or gains a cut short success.
So, minute
examples of life highlight the fact that success is indeed cut short if the
shortcut is used to achieve it. So why use the shortcuts? It is hard work that
could help attain the highest peak of life. Its up to a person whether he wants
to scale Mt. Kinabalu or Mt. Everest. Whether he wants a stronger pot or an
easily breakable one. Whether he wants to lead in an athletic event upto a
certain distance or wants to win it. Whether he wants to follow the google
results and attain a cut short success or follow the toughest path of life and
attain the brightest gift from God- true success.