Giving up too soon

A man met a guru in the road. The man asked the guru - 'Which way should I go to achieve success?'

The robed, bearded sage said nothing, but he pointed to a place in the distance.

The man, thrilled by the prospect of quick and easy success, rushed in the appropriate direction. Suddenly, there came a loud 'Splat.'

Soon, the man limped back, tattered and stunned, assuming he must have misinterpreted the message. He repeated his question to the guru. 'Which way should I go to achieve success?' The guru again pointed silently in the same direction.

The man obediently walked off once more. This time the 'splat' was deafening. When the man crawled back, he was bloody, broken, tattered, and irate.

'I asked you which way I should go to achieve success,' he screamed at the guru.

'I followed the direction you gave me, and all I got was splatted! No more of this pointing! Talk!'

Only then did the guru speak. What he said was: 'Success is that way. Just a little past splat.

Most people look for quick and easy ways to succeed, but we fail to understand that the road to success is filled with obstacles. We simply give up when hit with one of these obstacles. There is a saying “if you try and you don't succeed, dust your self up and try again”. Its better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all.

Thomas Edison in his long quest to find the exact filament that would allow the creation of an electric light bulb, was asked by a reporter how it felt to have failed almost a thousand times. He replied that he had not failed, he had successfully eliminated a thousand ways that did not work and was thus closer to discovering the one that would work. Don't just give up easily when you are facing some challenges because your success could be a little past the splat.

Cheers!!!