If you knew that by pulling up a rope hanging down a well, you would get
a rich prize, a bag of gold, or a box of diamonds, you would keep on
pulling.
Now, life is nothing but pulling at something at the end of which we
hope and expect to find something worth while.
What we pull at consists of a long string of opportunities, and if we
let go, then we lose.
The fact is, we must improve our present opportunities, for they lead to
other and better ones. Small opportunities are not to be despised for
several of them make one large one which is what you are aiming at.
“Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and
the beauteous land.”
Some people want to get rich immediately, and venture into all kinds of
speculations to get there. These are not opportunities, they spell ruin
in the end. They are the destroyers of opportunities.
An opportunity always makes good if you stick to it, but flies away from
you if you neglect it.
Opportunity says to you: “Oh, well, if you do not care for my company,
there are others who do,” and away it goes to the others, and then you
have regrets, too late perhaps, some other man has appropriated it.
It is a common saying: “Everything comes to him who waits,” but Napoleon
said: “Everything comes to him WHO KNOWS HOW to wait.” There is a vast
difference.
Do you know HOW to wait, friend? If you do then you are ready to grasp
opportunity when it comes your way.
Christ said: “Seek and ye shall find.” To this may be added the saying
of St. Paul the great Apostle who was certainly a wise man: “Prove all
things; hold fast that which is good.” Do it now, for time flies. “The
Bird of Time has but a little way to fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the
Wing.”