Making the Best of Things

46 pounds of moon earth, leaving equipment worth 5 lakh pounds behind them. They also left their footprints on its surface which, hopefully will remain intact for half a million years. It was only after such highly elaborate preparations that the "small step" could be taken which was going to result in such a "giant leap" for mankind. Starting from Scratch "I have reached my present position by climbing a ladder and not by coming up to it in a lift." This observation was made by a tailor who, having started with nothing but his own two hands and the will to work, had become eminently successful in his line of business. "Making a good coat is not child's play. The whole process is so complicated that without detailed information as to how to proceed, long experience and a high degree of skill, it is almost impossible to accomplish. It is only after a lifetime of hard work that I have succeeded in running a prosperous shop in the city." The tailor went on to explain how he had done his apprenticeship under the guidance of an expert tailor. Just learning the art of cutting and sewing had taken him five long years. When he opened his own little shop, he discovered that he had difficulty in giving his customers a good fitting. This was because during his apprenticeship, he had never really grasped the fact that people could be of such different shapes and sizes. He therefore set himself to the task of studying the human anatomy, but it was only after many years of effort that he could make a coat with an absolutely perfect fitting. He eventually became such an expert in this that he could even give perfect fittings to those who unfortunately suffered from deformities—such as hunchbacks. "In any type of work, there are many things which one has to