TAKE IT AS A CHALLENGE

of India. Similarly, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was born into a family which could not afford to pay his school fees. However, Dr.Kalam went on to become a leading scientist and ultimately the President of India, the highest office of the country. It is poverty and difficulties which create motivation in people and as such, they are not evils. Without them, there would be little chance of progress or development. According to the creation plan, the principle of life is: suffering plus motivation leads to development. The same holds true for nations. For example, Japan and Germany were engaged in the hostilities of the Second World War. Both were defeated and suffered great losses. But this loss motivated them to do better national planning, and their efforts in this field bore fruit. It is common knowledge that Germany and Japan, which had once been devastated by war, ultimately rose to become successful nations in the post-war period. It is not in the Creator’s scheme of things for anyone to be born ‘readymade’ by nature. Human beings are required to struggle to become self-made individuals. This is so that every mind may become a creative mind, and so that everyone may have the self-confidence to carve out independently a career for oneself. Had the world not been fraught with challenges, it would have been a moribund rather than an alive world. Modern civilization is considered to be the greatest marvel of the present age. But this marvel could only have come into existence as a result of the challengeresponse mechanism. A phenomenon such as civilization could never have arisen in a world without challenges being met. Moreover, had there been no challenges in the world, human beings would have been deprived of real joy. It is human nature for a person to face a challenge, overcome it through struggle, discover or achieve something new in the process, and then experience great joy. Had everyone been in possession of all they needed from the outset, and no one had been required to struggle to achieve anything, human life would have become like the world of the trees; living, but joyless. On the contrary, man, besides just being alive, can experience joy. The reason for this is the presence of challenge, which is often erroneously considered as a source of suffering. o Human beings are required to struggle to become self-made individuals.