Living in Hope

SEEKING THE RIGHT ALTERNATIVES Things which are impossible to obtain by direct confrontation can be achieved by the patient fostering of mutual goodwill. Where provocation and retaliation have failed, patience and human concern will succeed. A luckless passenger rushed, panting, into the station just as his train was steaming out. His watch—unaccountably slow by ten minutes—had let him down. “Don’t worry, Babuji,” sympathized a passing porter, “There will be another train along in about a couple of hours. Why go away? Just wait here for it on this same platform.” The passenger, keen to reach his destination, decided to accept his advice, even if it meant waiting two long tedious hours. Just getting to where he wanted to go was too important to him to think of expending time and energy in coming and going from the station all over again, and perhaps missing his train once again; so, he stayed right where he was and catch his train he did.