No One Is Useless
Once there was a man who did not
make it to university.
His mother got him a wife.
After the wedding, he worked as a
teacher in a primary school.
Due to the lack of experience, he
was squashed by the students in less than a week.
When he returned home, his wife
dried his tears. She comforted him with these words.
“You should not be too sad about it.
Probably there is a more suitable job waiting for you out there.”
It was in his thirties that he
became a counsellor in a
school for the deaf and mute.
Later on, he opened a school for the
disabled.
A few years later, he set up a chain
of stores in different cities and provinces, selling apparatus and equipment
for the disabled.
He became a multi-millionaire.
One day he asked his wife, “When I
was looking bleak at my own future, what’s the reason that you had so much
faith in me?”
His wife gave him a simple reply.
She said, “When a piece of land is not suitable for planting wheat, we could try
planting beans. If the beans are not growing well, we could try planting fruits
or gourds. If the vegetation is not economical, we can instead scatter
buckwheat seeds. These seeds will one day bloom into flowers. On this land
itself, there will be at least one seed that will germinate and grow.”
We must never lose hope in our life.
