Living in Hope

THE ROAD TO SUCCESS The really important thing in life is to make a proper start. When a man is willing to start his journey from the right point, every step amount to making progress. Nothing then can stop him from reaching his goal. A twelve-year old boy came running home one evening hoping for something to eat, for he felt ravenously hungry. His mother replied to him sadly. “I have nothing to give you,” she said. “There is not a thing in the house you can eat, and I have no money to buy food.” Tears of despair began to fall from her eyes. Her husband was a poor man—a daily labourer— and when days passed and he could not find work, it meant that everyone went hungry. The young boy thought for a moment, then asked his mother if she didn’t even have twenty-five paisa. “I do”, she said, “But what can you buy for a whole family with just twenty-five paisa?” Her son told her not to worry and begged her to give him her last coin. Too weary and hopeless even to argue with him, she handed it over