Safe Harbour On Both Sides

Just like a river has banks on both sides, life too offers two options: If you cannot reach the bank ahead, you can always return to the bank behind—and you will still find a shore. This is how life works. In this journey, there are two safe harbours: one ahead, which you aim to reach, and one behind, from where you started. If you fail to reach the destination, go back—because even there, a safe harbour awaits you. The truth is that a person always exists between two possibilities. But most people make the mistake of thinking that if one possibility is lost, everything is lost. Someone once said, “The same sun that rose yesterday will rise again tomorrow.” Rather than mourning what is lost, it is far better to use the time that is coming. Unfortunately, very few people follow this wisdom. There was a student who had passed the tenth grade. Later, he appeared for the eleventh-grade exam—and failed. That single failure hit him so hard that he committed suicide. He forgot that even if he couldn’t climb the eleventh step, he still had his feet firmly on the tenth step. If he had simply turned back, he could have found work or built a career as a tenth-pass student. Or, he could