Anyone who undertakes a venture in any field of human excellence is bound to face not merely difficulties but often also frustration and even ridicule or lack of support, extending itself to a situation of his not even being noticed, let alone being approved. He, who having undertaken this journey after having analytically comprehended his true capacities and talents in the chosen field, would find strength from these lines of the poem Don't Quit: "When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,When the funds are low and the debts are high,And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,Rest, if you must — but don't quit".
Indeed tough times don't last but tough people do. Failures and repeated failures, besides instances of discouragement and repeated discouragement, should be met with repeated attempts and renewed courage. This concept is epitomised by the incident concerning king Robert Bruce, who after many defeats in war, on observing a spider repeatedly attempting to make its web till it succeeded, recoups and marshals his forces again for the final and successful battle. These lines of 'Don't Quit' are, thus, doubtless not mere theoretical rhetoric: "Don't give up, though the pace seems slow - You might succeed with another blow".
The intelligent seeker would also see through the vain boasts of the shallow and the overconfident. He would realise the force in Henry Thoreau's observation: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation". It is a pity that, very often, even the intelligent are overawed by sheer glitter and make-believe, as were the many terrified onlookers, in that didactic story, who stood rooted 'appreciating' the 'thin' robes of the 'king emperor', until a mere child exclaimed, "Why is the emperor naked?"
Not seeing any light at the end of what may appear an unending tunnel, the truly courageous would know how, as noted by the poem, often "success is failure turned inside out" and about those tragic cases where "often the struggler has given up When he might have captured the victor's cup And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,How close he was to the golden crown". The path to excellence is indeed, as difficult to pass over as a razor's edge. Truly, the message for the doubting, yet true seeker, would be, "Don't ever quit"!
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