The destiny of labour

The destiny of labour

“Hard work is the key to success”, is a powerful old adage. It has awakened a sleeping individual, has kindled a light of hope in the dying minds and has motivated people like you and me to rise up above our competitors. There are evidences of things changing with the flavor of hard work whence added. Whenever we fail to achieve our targets our well-wishers remind us to focus on hard work. Intensely intensified intention is a requisite in the terminology of hard work. Precipitation with perseverance has always been a must.

But I have a question that haunts my mind. Is hard work the only key to success? Can’t the lock to success be opened by other keys? I ponder, since the road to success is divergent, versatile and long. I have travelled, so I know. We often picturise the road to success as an uneven path, difficult terrains with never- ending curves and highly indefinable.Let me rename the road to success as “Rts”. The road to success is non-challenging for a normal individual but tremendously challenging for the extraordinary ones. The Rts is not at all magnetic. It seldom attracts people. It is a diamond in a crude form. The main problem of Rts is that the destination can never be seen. We expect the destination to be somewhere ahead and move on. That can be a reason why many people drop in between. To follow a road to an unseen destination requires a lot of tenacity. The road to success is an alien to most of us. To quote what Robert Frost said in his poem “The road not taken”-

“I took the one less travelled by

And that has made all the difference”.

Yes, the Rts is mostly the road not taken. Of course we cannot deny that hard work is the key to success but along with hard work there are many more factors which lead us to success. The most powerful of all factors is “time”. Any amount of hard work rendered at the wrong time will fail to balance the equation of success. However we try to climb the road to success ignoring all our needs we may not be successful if the right time has not reached.

 The second in line is hard work endorsed with positive motivation and planned scientifically. It can pull our graph vertically. Irrespective of our toil, if we ignore the logical parameters and work day and night it may not produce effective result.A farmer sowing the seeds at an odd hour in the dry soil, failing to nourish the seed will not reap a successful harvest. Any amount of hard work if not backed up with correct proportion of motivation and logical set up, will give us an undesirable result.

Rts depends on our competency too. Every individual is equipped with a particular skill of his or her own. If we devout a larger share of time to develop a new skill which we don’t possess at all, it is indeed futile. If a butcher by profession forces himself to change his trade and become a painter can he write a success story? So, with hard work we can indeed polish a skill but cannot develop a skill. Proficiency is an inborn talent.

Another important fact about the story of success is our own destiny. There has been many cases where a lot of hard work has not helped an aspiring candidate to success. With all the ingredients in correct proportion and the sweat all day could not help many to realize their dreams. In some cases it is simply a matter of destiny. Many people don’t accept the fact that destiny has an upper hand but in some cases we see it is true. Therefore along with labour, time, motivation, logical thinking, competency, the crown of golden destiny plays a strong role to escort us towards success. So to conclude, we can in a way come to a consensus that all hard work don’t merge with the sea of success. Some dry up in their way and become a story of inland drainage.

 Tanni Bose