What shall we do when hope is gone?”
The words leapt like a leaping sword:
“Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!”
Joaquin Miller inspired by Columbus has written above poem on Columbus and his inspiring journey. These words still give hope for the despairing hearts.
One day he quit his job and decided to become miner to find the most beautiful Emerald in the world. It was his passion that forced him to quit his routine life and enter the world of extreme possibilities.
The miner had abandoned everything to go mining for Emeralds. For five years he had been working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands of stones looking for an Emerald. He was about to give it all up, right at the point when, if he were to examine just one more stone—just ONE MORE —he would find his Emerald.
Since the miner had sacrificed everything to his destiny, The GOD decided to become involved. GOD transformed himself into a stone that rolled up to the miner’s foot. The miner, with all the anger and frustration of his five fruitless years, picked up the stone and threw it aside. But he had thrown it with such force that it broke the stone it fell upon, and there, embedded in the broken stone, was the most beautiful Emerald in the world.
“People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being,” said the GOD, with a certain bitterness. “Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too. But that’s the way it is.”
THE EARLY WE GET, THE EARLY WE LOSE !
Above story was told by old man to young Santiago in Alchemist when he was at a point to give up his efforts to find the treasure for he dreamth of.
We all in our life aspire to achieve or become something that we always dream of. We tend to work hard to achieve it. But at one point we lose hope and with a despaired heart we surrender for our efforts and give it up to destiny. And this is the point in our life where success is just ONE MORE TRY away from us just like the miner was one more stone away from getting his Emerald !
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