Self-reliance is the pilgrim's best staff, the worker's best tool.It is the master key that unlocks all the difficulties of our life. 'Help yourself and Heaven will help you' is a maxim that receives daily confirmation. He who begins with crutches will generally end with crutches. Help from within always strengthens, but help from without invariably enfeebles the recipient. It is not in the sheltered garden, but in the rugged Alpine cliff, where the storms beat most violently, that the toughest plants are reared. It is not by the use of corks, bladders and life-buoys that you can best learn to swim, but by plunging courageously into the waves and buffeting them.To wait until some charitable man passes by, to stand with arms folded, sighing for a helping hand, is not the part of any manly mind.The habit ot depending upon others should be vigorously resisted, since it tends to weaken the intellectual faculties and paralyse the judgement. The struggle against adverse circumstances has on the contrary, a bracing and strengthening effect, like that of the pure mountain air on an enfeebled frame. This is a lesson which, now-a-days, is not taught in colleges. It may seem to us that the modern systems of education which is at its glory of laying down too many principles of 'royal roads' to knowledge is the best. But those very foundations which formerly motivated the student to think and labour for himself and society are now most carefully removed, and makes everything a perfect showcase of different infrastructural facilities and technologies used inorder to run with the the fast changing world. Thinking that the infrastructure in the institute will teach him how to be a perfect man but what happens in reality is that he becomes inhuman ,with no humanity a human is trained.
Leaving behind what has happened let's focus on our future. Our future is in our hands . Let's not wait for someone from somewhere to come and pave a beautiful path for us.Instaed let's do it ourselves.
Let's make it a point to inculcate the value of responsibility and self reliance in our younger ones by creatingaa change in ourselves.
Let be the light to the darkened world of laziness and irresponsibility. The value of self help should be instilled in the hearts and minds of every individual through acts of kindness and motives to support, which will enable us to be called a perfect 'human'. Since Self - help strengthen and motives us , whereas dependence on others weakens the mind and makes one unmanly.
In this time of pandemic let's be and act more human .My early childhood lessons have taught me that even animals ,insects and birds prove to be better orangnised in certain cases.The picture of 12 ants drinking water from a single drop on a leaf.
They balance it in such a way so that the water doesn't spill. Isn't it amazing? Who is asking them to do all these?
It's High time… THINK and ACT
