A teacher was once explaining a few things that were going to come in the upcoming unit test. Just as she was, she overheard a student say, "Why do we always have to work to get something? I wish we could get anything in this world without working." She went up to the student and told him that he wouldn't be happy if he achieved something without working hard for it. The student disagreed. The following unit test, the teacher spoke to that same student and told him to not give the test. The student was puzzled. "Why would a teacher ask him to not give a test?" he thought. He had to say yes, cause it would be wrong to say no to a teacher. The test was over by the end of the day and the result of it would be given the next week. On the day of the result, he had a glance at his report card.... and was surprised when he saw an A+ written in bold letters without even giving the test. He was happily surprised, but for some reason, his happiness was incomplete and tasted a bit sour. There was something in his mind that bothered him. He was deep in his thought when the teacher came and sat next to him. She said, "See how you feel? You're not really happy with what you got, right? You see, there's no substitute to hard work. The harder you work, the more happier you'll be when you achieve something. If you don't work at all, you might end up feeling like you are right now ~ like you don't deserve the grade and anyways, if there was a substitute to a hard work you probably would've been feeling happy right now." The teacher's words somehow made sense to him, and from that day onwards, he got an A+ in almost every test he gave, not by any substitute but by pure hard work.
*seminar*
*seminar*
