Safe Harbour On Both Sides

Because this realisation is the beginning of a new life. And in this world, a true beginning is another name for success. Robert Collier once said, “A man’s best friends are his ten fingers.” By this, he meant that our two hands are so valuable that even all the gold in the world cannot match them. Even if someone loses all their possessions, they still have their two hands—the very hands with which they built everything in the first place. And with these same hands, they can rebuild again. Mr. J. C. Malik, a military pilot, once shared his experiences in an article published in the Hindustan Times (5 May 1982). He wrote that when a pilot flies a fighter jet, he flies faster than sound, at such heights where nothing is visible except emptiness. It’s as if he’s on a journey toward death. In such moments, there is only the machine—and the man. Either he returns after completing the mission, or he gets shot down. Mr. Malik wrote a powerful line: “The man in him knows fear. But the professional pilot in him has taught and trained himself to master it.” What he wrote about a pilot is equally true about life. Life is a battlefield. Everyone must face it.