Once upon a time, there was a monk who used to sit by bank of the river everyday. He always used to shout that “whatever you want you will get it”. The people who passed by the monk thought that he is insane and did not pay much attention to his words. One day, as usual, the monk was shouting, “whatever you want you will get it”.
A young man was passing by, he heard the voice of the monk and went to him. He asked the sage – ‘o blessed one, you are saying that I will get whatever I want. So can you give me what I want?’ The monk listened to him and said ‘Yes it is true my friend! Whatever you want, I can give you’. You just have to obey me.First of all, tell me what do you want? The young man replied – ‘o wise one, I have a wish. I want to become a rich person by trading of diamonds and pearls’. Seeing the readiness of the young man, the sage said ‘sure my friend, your wish will definitely be fulfilled’.
Diamonds and Pearls
The sage said, ‘I will give you a diamond and a pearl, so you can make as many diamonds and pearls with it’. After saying this, the sage put his hand on the palm of that young man and said, ‘son, I am giving you the most precious diamond in the world. People call it “TIME”, hold it firmly in your fist and never lose it. You can make as many diamonds as you want from it’.
The young man got into some thought. Just then holding his other palm, the monk said, ‘son, take this, this is the second most precious pearl in the world. People call it “PATIENCE”. Whenever you do not see the result even after giving time, then use this precious pearl. Always remember that, the one who has this pearl of patience, can achieve anything in the world’.
The person seriously considered the words of the monk and learned a great lesson that time and patience are the most precious gems in this world. Then the young man decided that from that day onwards he should never waste his time and will always work with patience. After leaving from there, the young man worked with a big diamond merchant. He made full use of his time, learned the work with honesty and with his hard work and patience he became a very big trader of diamonds.
Achieve your goals
In our life we can find that, people set goals in their life. But due to lack of these two gems called time and patience, they are not able to achieve their goals. To achieve any goal in your life, it is very important to have two qualities of time management and patience. Never let your time be wasted and never give up on patience even in difficult situations. Because no one is stronger than time and there is no wealth greater than patience.
In this world, achieving overnight success is rare and too difficult. Whatever task you do, you need patience to finish it. You may think what is there in being patience. If you have that question, I will tell you that there are two things – 1. Working hard, put your effort to achieve success. 2. The unknown thing is the effort you put is the real success. For example, scoring 70 or 80 marks in your exam is not a big deal. The effort you put to score 70 marks is the real victory. This is a kind of process to take you from nowhere to somewhere high. You should not rush this process. We always do this mistake to rush everything. What we think is, if we desire something and put effort, we will achieve it. However, most people don’t follow the process of learning to achieve what we desire.
We should understand that it will take enough time to learn something. Therefore, don’t think that you didn’t get what you what even after you put a lot of effort, worked hard and spent lot of time. Don’t worry! Believe that you are still learning something. Only if you understand that you are learning something, you will not give up. Everybody in this world are doing the mistake of giving up early. They don’t think that they are learning something but they are worrying only about putting effort. You will get your desire only if you believe that you are in the process of learning how to achieve it. Being patience is not meant to be not attempting anything. But after all your effort if you don’t achieve it, don’t give up. You may not get it today, but fix your mind that you will get it tomorrow for sure.
Only if you come to that mindset, you will understand that you are learning something during each of your failure. This is a kind of process, and you may fall down in this process and it is painful. Moreover, your entire time will be consumed and drains your energy. There is no space for your comfort zone. You will not feel yourself while you are in this process. Nevertheless, in the end of this process you will feel a new person inside you. You will change yourself as a skilful and talented person.
When you feel this process and experience it, you will be seeing the success ahead. Once you get what you want, you will be looking after the other. When you run after the other, you can feel the stepping stone of success. Here, only the process will always be with you and it brings you the happiness. Hence, be calm, put your full effort to learn something. Success will automatically come to you.
Conclusion
If we can understand the importance of time in our life and make good use of it and keep patience even in tough situations, then we can get whatever we want. Hence, you should always have these two precious gems of time and patience. Whatever you want you will get it.
