“The winner (the successful) is a person who dreams and never ceases to achieve his dream”. These Words are said by the late leader Nilson Mandela, which truly express his life journey filled with difficulties and obstacles that never stopped him from achieving his dreams till he became one of the most prominent character of our age representing patience, perseverance and success. The person who wished to achieve his dreams should know that the first step to achieve them is not to surrender and stop trying. They say, “You can stumble one hundred times before achieving success. But the most important matter is not to stop trying”. True success will never be achieved without persisting in reaching your destination
Not that kind of persistence found in words or dreams, but the one in action which pertaining to all the aspects of life with no exception. In science, the name of Albert Einstein is present before my eyes. He was thought by his teachers to be mentally handicapped and unable to retain information. He found difficulty in reading till the age of 7. After finishing his secondary school, his teachers did not recommend him to go to college. Surprisingly, he surpassed all expectations and become the unique physicist who put several theories and explained many unexplained theories at that time. In the political domain, there is Winston Churchill whose life was complicated due to his learning obstacles followed by the failures at his political career; however he never gave up till he became a prime minister at the age of sixty six.
What about “the biggest loser in the world”? He is Jack Ma who belonged to a poor family from China. He was so passionate about learning English for which he exerted huge effort so much that he rode his bicycle every morning to a nearby hotel to work as a tour guide for foreigners for free just for the sake of speaking to them and perfecting his language .All his job or university applications were rejected. Though all the aforementioned, he did not surrender. He used the new technology at this time and decided to make a shopping website on the internet. He met many difficulties, but he did not stop till his website gain an international fame and he became one of the richest men in china. So whoever desires to achieve success should give work and toil a bigger portion in his life than rest. This is the challenge life gives you to be a distinguished person.
Our life style and our attitude toward the situations life puts us in influence our behavior and stances greatly toward what we want and do not want to do. These are the most essential determiners of the next steps we take in our life. Someone may face obstacles so he decides to stop trying, another decides to accept the challenge and never surrenders. Between this and that person is a thin line; one decided to by inspired by strength, while another decided to surrender. You and only you can decide to take either road.
General Bishop
Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center
