Among my many highly respected friends, I've been having on-going morning coffees with Goh Bock Seng, a legend in the insurance community. I credit him for showing me the ropes of being a street-smart entrepreneur, and very often, he does this by telling parables.

Here's one of them.

Along a well travelled path of a rustic country-side, there were 2 pieces of marble.

One of the marbles was carved into a beautiful statue of the Virgin Mary, and as travellers came upon the statue, they gave praise, worshipped and adorned it with flowers.

The other marble was, well, just a piece of rough, uncut boulder. As travellers went by, they sat on it, stepped on it, spat on it, peed on it with no particular care nor affection.

One day, the boulder was very dismayed at how differently they were treated, and cried out to the statue: "It's simply not fair! People adorn you and treat you with great care and affection, but these same people treat me like I was nothing at all!"

To which the statue replied: " But it is fair! Did you remember the time when they tried to make a statue of you too? Yet you chose not to endure the pain when they were carving and grinding you by chipping and cracking, so they stopped."

"My Life today is my reward for enduring the hardships of yesterday."

This parable goes out to all of you who are working hard for your Dreams to come true.

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