In 1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done. It was not practical. It had never been done before.

Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. He thought about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an up and coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.

Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration, and the headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.

The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move.

"We told them so."
"Crazy men and their crazy dreams."
"It`s foolish to chase wild visions."

Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.

He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment.

It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.

He touched his wife's arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again.

For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife's arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man's indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their team work, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do.

Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a never-say-die attitude that overcomes a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal.

"Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring home with me."

"Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him."

"There's something you should know the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."

"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."

"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us."

"Son," said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own."

At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide. The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know, their son had only one arm and one leg.

The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we don't like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who aren't as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are. Thankfully, there's someone who won't treat us that way. Someone who loves us with an unconditional love that welcomes us into the forever family, regardless of how messed up we are.

People always think that dealing in equity is one of the riskiest options that capital markets offer to the investors. From this pops out a question"What exactly is risk"?. According to me , no one has an answer that tells what exactly risk is. Risk may be defined as a "probability of loss" or "an element we can insure against". But because no one knows the exact probability of risk, no one can be fully insured against all risks.

So, there is no proper definition of risk. Its severity varies with the perspectives of each person.There may be a guy who thinks that walking on the roads is risky because there are too many vehicles.Does that stop us from walking on roads? For some people working in a coalmine is not risky because they are used to that work and there is no other choise.

This is exactly the case with Capital Markets. There are too many choices with the investors. They usually prefer having a Fixed Deposit, and giving away there hard earned money in the hands of their banker to make fortunes for himslf and the bank.

there is another striking fact.People assume risk differently in different situations.a man who is sitting on a gain of Rs 3000 in a stock would either sell it, or hedge it. For him its too risky to hold on. But if he has incurred a loss of Rs 3000 in a script with very little chance of recovery would prefer to hold it because he still has a chance. Even if it means futthur losses.In these situations Traders become Investors and viceversa.

Most of the retail investors trade im the markets without having even the basic financial education about the functioning of the stock exchanges. They rely on speculative bets and run out of the markets like SCARED DOGS once they get there hands burnt.They then start cursing the markets and the government for their misery without considering that it was there greedy decision and not the decision of the government to invest into share markets.

Most people rely on their earned income to fulfill their needs which in case if 95% of the individuals is not enough. They dont put their money to work and share the load of there consumption needs with them.

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Lately, I have been dreaming about opening my own collegeand would name it institute of creativity(IC). Then I would ask the students what they would like to study. There would be no barriers of Age, Gender, Caste, Religion(Specially No RESERVATIONS) because there would be room for everyone,

There would only be an open enviornment so that creativity can flourish.Students will be there own faculty.Those students who are accustomed to a subject would teach that subject to those who want to learn that subject.

So don't just beleive what others say about a religion just because they are saying it. Try to find out the reasons behind themelse conside it not true. You can still follow what others say if they assist the welfare of the human race.

Mahatma Gandhi is manytimes misunderstood by many people. This is because of his laid back approach. Because of his "Ahimsa Parmo Dharma" he was portrayed as afraid of voilence. Mahatma Gandhi never said that he was against killing people. He would have liked to assist those people who are killing others if they were fulfilling one condition i.e there should be no greed and anger behind killing others. there should be a sense of dutifullness behind the killing either for an empire or a nation.

This is why he was a beleiver of Bhagvad Gita and Karmayoga.

In early days, there used to be a religion named 'pagan' in the west. For the monthe earth and nature were there gods and godesses.they gave a lot of importance to components of nature like air, water, earth, fire etc.

To me, when somebody hates someone or kills someone it is his love for something else that makes him hate or kill someone.It may be there family, friends, themselver, money, religion or ego which they cherish in their life.

Everybody wants true love in this world, but if everybody in every situation is in love with something or the other. Then, why do we have to debate over what true love is?

For me there is no need to find a soul mate that truly loves me because i know that one bright and sunny day, we both are going to find each other. Love and relationships have become a staus symbol for many of us today. But those who play with love will have to pay very heavily someday at the end of it all.