Even Success Follows Newton’s Law
You should check if success pushes you back
Two students lived and studied with their teacher.
Of them, the younger student had more merits and received praise and honor everywhere he went.
The older student was poor in his study and jealous of the young one’s success.
One day, the older student shared his grievance with his teacher — “Sir, I am with you for many years now. I try to do every assignment and obey you without hesitation on anything. But you have given me less education than the new student. Why?”
Guru listened to him calmly and said — “First, let me tell you a story.”
The student agreed.
The teacher begins —
“On a sunny day, a man walked through the forest. He was dying of thirst, but he didn’t have any water. He searched for a while and finally found a well.”
“There was also a bucket, but it was without a rope. The well was deep enough, and there wasn’t another way to pull up water. Out of luck, he wandered a while, and walked away.”
His thought was — “There could be another well ahead.”
“Another thirsty man passed by the same place and saw the well. Without a rope, he too couldn’t pull…
