What goes around comes around

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself.

Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied,waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly. "I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of." And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, he graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time: PenicillinThe name of the nobleman: Lord Randolph ChurchillHis son's name: Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said:

"What goes around comes around.Work, like you don't need the money.Love, like you've never been hurt.Dance, like nobody's watching.Sing, like nobody's listening.Live, like it's heaven on earth."

The best revenge is ...

In 1960’s, In an audition in Hollywood, a film was in the process of being made. The title, “Best Man“. In the movie, somebody had to play the part of a USA President.. The Director told his assistants to find out an actor who was suitable for the role. The director saw the actor, and grew annoyed with his assistants for bring such a person to act the role of a US President. The actor was dejected and he left the place.
Years passed. The very person who was denied for a role to act as a US president in reel life became the US President in his real life. Guess who ?...

Ronald Regan.

Just think of the director’s face at that time.
This story is the best example of the proverb " THE BEST REVENGE IS LIVING WELL" told by an French writer Palsac.
If someone is denying you some where, it is up to you to prove your ability that others were wrong at that time.

I'll beat you the next time

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man- 29,000 feet straight up. He was knighted for his efforts. He even made American Express card commercials because of it!

However, until we read his book, High Adventure, we don't understand that Hillary had to grow into this success. You see, in 1952 he attempted to climb Mount Everest, but failed.

A few weeks later after his failed attempt, a group in England asked him to address its members. Hillary walked on stage to a thunderous applause. The audience was recognizing an attempt at greatness, but Edmund Hillary himself, did not share their view point on the matter. He moved away from the microphone and walked to the edge of the platform. He made a fist and pointed at a picture of the mountain. Here is what he had to say. All of a sudden in a loud voice, he said "Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time! because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!"

A very important lesson can be deduced from this very act. Edmund pressed and persevered until he saw his goal come to a fruitation. He never gave up. Despite unfavourable conditions. I imagine that his close relations and family didn't give him up much encouragement. Especially, after his first failed attempt. But, he never lost his focus. This brings to my mind the saying that goes thus :

"Set a goal before you, set a plan to achieve that goal. If the plan fails, change it, but never change the goal."