PROPOSE OF STUDYING

                     

A businessman went to an island in the South Pacific where he found local children relaxing on the bench. He said to them: “Stop idling away your time. Get yourself to school immediately and start studying”.
They replied, “Why should we go to school?”
“If you go to school and study hard, “the man said, “You can get good grades”. “Why do we need good grades?” the children asked. “Ah, if you get good grades, you can get into a great university”.
“And what will happen if we get into a great university?”
“If you graduate from a prestigious university, you can work for a big company or serve in a prominent public office. You can also earn a high salary and maybe enter into a good marriage”.
“Then what?”
“You can live a beautiful home and enjoy life”.
“And then?”
“You can work very hard, send your, send your kids to a good school and then retire.” And?” the children queried. “Then you can go to a nice warm place and spend every day relaxing.” “If that’s the goal,” the children responded, “then we don’t have to wait. We’ve already achieved it!”  So why do we expend so much time and energy in studying? For what purpose do we live our lives? What is money for?
If our soul reason for living is to have is easy, there may be no need to make such strenuous efforts to get into a good school or find a good job. Good schools and good jobs do not automatically grant you happiness and ease. Even if you chase after them, there is no guarantee you’ll be happy if you get them.
Only by meeting life’s challenges can you fulfill your potential and experience true happiness. To do so, you need strength character. That is why we stress constantly how much there is to gain by working hard and challenging yourself now.
There was a person who easily excelled in everything and whom everyone admired. So you can imagine surprise when, twenty-five years later, that person ended “a sorrowful life that could only be described as hellish, filled with financial seatbacks and family problems.”
You may ask how this could happen to someone who had shown such promise in his youth. That was because; having been pampered and fussed over from a early age, that person never learned what hard work was nor what it meant to struggle to accomplish something. He never learned what a life of genuine depth and substance was. Thinking that everything he desired would just fall in his lap, he never challenged himself, even going out of way to avoid strenuous effort.