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    Try your best, but be aware of your limits

    Just now, I have read that an Indian mountaineer, Ms. Suzanne Leopoldina Jesus, had been admitted to a hospital in the Lukla town in Nepal after facing difficulties during the acclimatization exercises at the Mount Everest base camp and died yesterday (18th May 2023). A very high-ranking official from Nepal Tourism Department has stated that the 59-year-old lady mountaineer was aiming to set a new world record to become Asia's first woman on a pacemaker to scale Mount Everest, although the physicians had advised her against such attempt.

    This unfortunate incident has forced me to think. All known and unknown people advise us to try, try and try and they say that if a person tries, he/she will definitely be successful. Following such advice, many students try for medical and engineering for two or more years but remain unsuccessful. In Delhi, I have seen numerous cases when young men and women spend years after year to clear the Indian Civil Services Examination, but ultimately fail to succeed.

    In some extremely unfortunate cases, some engineering/medical aspirants or civil service aspirants, after losing three-four valuable years of their life in such futile attempts, commit suicide.

    Such unfortunate incidents happen only because we fail to understand our own limit/potential.

    So, I think, the proper advice to students should be : Try Your Best; But Understand Your Limit.
  • #773215
    Having ambitions and aspirations for making a career is required in a person for progressing ahead but at the same time, one must realize and visualize one's limits.
    I remember during my school days in Mathematics subject we read about limits and it was told that we have to remain within those limits while evaluating a function or expression.
    That thing applies to everything in our lives and whatever hard we do those limits will always be a deciding factor for everything in our lives.
    I know a student who after his UG course tried hard for IAS and gave 3 attempts but his score did not improve and he came to know his limits and settled for some other job as per his qualifications.

    Knowledge is power.

  • #773216
    Trying is in our hands and the same goes for knowing our own limits. We know that in our class or batch, we would be 40-60 students and everyone has different scores. This itself shows that understanding a subject or our ability to focus on that subject differs. The same goes for choosing the right subject, stream, field or profession. We need to understand that the subject or profession we choose is with us and if we select one that is beyond our capacity or capability, we may be able to survive but not succeed in it.

    Everyone has a limit that can be measured by himself or by our close ones. We need to understand that we can try but to a limit wherein we don't break ourselves but can regain ourselves if something happens. It is we, who decide our goal and we should be the one that also knows our capacity and try to do/give our best but in giving our best, never cross the boundaries that shatter us in our later stage of life or will regret it at the end.

    “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." — Morrie Schwartz


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