Second Chance

SECOND CHANCE When one loses his ‘first chance’, a ‘second chance’ remains within his reach. Through thoughtful consideration, one can seize new opportunities and achieve success. A certain man was a manager in a company. He had a dispute with the company’s owner. The dispute kept mounting. It caused the manager grave mental stress and tension, so much so that he began contemplating suicide. Instead of trying to end the problem, he decided to end his own life, in the hope of thereby saving himself from the problem. This man happened to meet me. I asked him why he wanted to commit suicide. The doors of life were open to him, so, what was the need to choose the door of death? I said that he had ostensibly lost only his ‘first chance.’ A ‘second chance’ was still available for him. I then suggested that he shift to some other city. On the basis of his abilities, he could get good opportunities elsewhere. After advising him thus, I penned these words in his diary: ‘Sometimes, a gardener plucks a plant in his garden from its place only so that he can plant it in some other, better place.’