NO HURRY
When I was young and lived in a village in Uttar Pradesh, I longed to have a mango tree in my yard. One way was to plant a small mango sapling and wait patiently for it to grow over the years. But in my youthful eagerness, I wasn’t willing to wait that long. I wished for a fully grown mango tree to suddenly appear in my yard.
There, I had a mango orchard. Among the trees was a five-year-old one that had grown taller than a person and was thriving. I hired several workers to tend to it. They dug around it all day, and finally, by evening, they hauled the tree on a large cot. A hole was dug in the courtyard, and the tree was planted there.
I was very pleased with myself, thinking I had accomplished in one day what usually takes five years, by planting a big tree. However, when I woke up the next morning, I saw that the leaves of the tree had wilted. Still, I didn’t give up. I watered it generously, trusting the leaves would turn green with enough water. But that didn’t happen. The next day, the leaves wilted even more. Within a few days, the tree had completely dried up.
This experience from my youth was very tough for me. It became a lifelong lesson. It deeply ingrained in me the understanding that there are no shortcuts in life. Life is a long journey, and it must be completed over an extended period, no matter what.
After this incident, I realized that in this world, a person’s efforts are like a fifty-fifty partnership. This means that in any task, one part is human effort, and the other part is nature’s role. Every event in the world occurs through the alignment of human actions and natural processes. If a person desires something quickly, but nature’s way is not the way of haste, then merely wanting it quickly will not produce results. This incident has made me cautious about this matter for life.
The relationship between humans and nature can be compared to a gear wheel. In a gear wheel, both gears move together in sync. If one gear tries to turn faster on its own, the whole system will break down. The human gear is fragile, while the nature gear is strong. In such a case, if a human tries to increase their gear’s speed, the only outcome will be that the human gear will break. This is because the nature gear is so powerful that it won’t break under any circumstances.
My experience with the tree became a lasting lesson in my life. After that, I never tried to rush something that naturally takes time to develop. Since then, I have always considered what the true starting point for any endeavour is. You can’t begin your journey from the middle or the end; you must always start where nature intends it to begin.
Aspiring to get a result today that is meant to come tomorrow is not an easy task. It is like fighting against the laws of nature. It creates a world within a world. Such an effort will never lead to success. In this world, every human success is achieved by aligning with the laws of nature. A person who fights against these laws cannot accomplish anything for themselves here. This is an absolute truth with no exceptions.
