The number One skill in life is- Not Giving Up

Hello everyone. Let me ask you a very simple question. What is the difference between success and failure? The only difference between success and failure is that a successful person "never gives up". He fails 1000 times before succeeding The 1001th times. Let me ask you another simple question. Does giving up helps you achieve your dream or does it accelerate the process ? We all know the answer. It is a big no. Then why give up? Why even raise the question of giving up? My dear friends, the question we need to ask ourselves is " How much importance does your dream hold in your life?" 

I'll tell you a story:

 Socrates was Plato's mentor. One day they were walking down a beach. Then Socrates asked Plato to walk with him into the ocean. They started walking into the sea together. The water started out around their ankles, then rose up to their knees. As the water level rose, Plato wondered, “What is the lesson my master is trying to teach me?” When the water was about shoulder height, Socrates abruptly grabbed Plato’s head and pushed him down under the water. After sometime, when Plato ran out of air, he began to struggle to get his head above water. Eventually, Plato blacked out due to lack of oxygen. Socrates pulled him ashore. When Plato regained consciousness, at first he was extremely angry at Socrates for doing this to him. But Socrates explained, “If that had been my intention, I would not have pulled you ashore. I wanted to teach you that, when you desire my knowledge like you desired that breath of air, then you shall have it.” 

We want to achieve so many things in life but many a times we don't. The reason is very simple, and i.e we don't desire it the way Plato desired that breath of air.

'The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.'

                                                                                         - Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you have that burning desire, if you have that fire in your belly, then only sky is the limit and nothing can stop you. There are no doubts, there are no fears and thus there is no question of Giving up.

Rythum Verma