When a project is not going well, should people simply quit or continue to do what they started?
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With the vicissitudes of the social surroundings comes the seemingly ubiquitous conundrum that whether or not should one quit once the cause he or she is pursuing turns out to be a dead-end, to appease the frivolity of this mind state, one needs to refer to the success stories of our precedents to find the answer: only the one who persists and perseveres deserve the laurel of success.
The virtue of being tenacious and unswerving is truly the shortcut leading to the rosy prospect since, as is demonstrated by the history, most failures result from the ambivalence and fickleness of one’s original goal, and mournfully, the one who digresses from the previous dream has to start all over again. The pertinent exemplifications should be that of the truth-chasers, without the resolution and consistency of whom, the ice will not be broken and the development of the human race will be reduced to a stalemate. For instance, if it were not for Bruno’s and Copernicus’s obstinacy about the heliocentric theory, chances are high that we still feel nonplussed about the mercurial and inscrutable universe; if it were not for the Einstein’s obduracy, we still live in a pitch-dark world in the midnight; and if it were not for the Marie Curie’s recalcitrance, ‘Ra’ will remain an unknown element for decades to come…Cases are enumerable, it is our predecessors’ determination and nerve to take venture that push the human race forward.
Also, the mavericks who dare to defy the authorities have to possess prodigious courage to carry on, by when most of their struggle seem futile and by no means promising, but if they are intimidated by the then scenario and budged, they would not make any difference and their names would remain oblivious and anonymous in the scroll of history. Remember the advertisement filmed by Steve Jobs in 1997 when he made his tour back to Apple, it is called ‘think different’: Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round peg in square holes, the one who see things differently, they are no fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo…you can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can not do is ignore them, because they change things…because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.’ One cannot help but shocked in awe in front of these lines, and it is just because of the insistence of the crazy ones that the world keeps moving forward.
To reminisce the venerable deed of our courageous forerunners, Martin Luther King’s rotund speech ‘I have a dream’ still echoes besides our ears; Marie Colvin’s words that ‘I always concentrate on the humanity in the war and it does not seem remote and unfamiliar to those people living the peaceful world’ still touches us to the very bottom, and Harriet Tubman’s creed that ‘My people have to be free’ still lingers in our heart. The amelioration of mankind should be attributed to them and before the silver lining shows itself, one should never give up the hope, because, as is put in The Shawshank Redemption: ‘hope is a great thing, perhaps one of the greatest’.