Nov 28

Self-Reliance

It is hard to sentence being self-reliance to be a bad thing or not. Trace back to the history, a lot of green figures are kind of self-reliance. As a success man, they should insist on what they are working on and thinking about, it would be cut in the half way if they succumb to the commoner's word.Sometimes, it would be hard for others who are the commoners to understand what they are doing. For examble, Issac Newton, one of the best scientist in the world .When he was a little child, he started thinking about why the apple would fall down but not rise up.Obviously, this is a silly question which is questioned by a stupid guy even for us who are in such a modern world.However, he insisted on it, and finally excogitated Newton's law and Gravitation to explain his silly apple! How amazing it is! If I were him, I must have given up this idea for the people's comment and suspicion of me, for I am not self-reliance enough to deal with them. From this case, it tells us being self-reliance can be the key to accomplish great work which is not done nor studied before and seemed to be foolish; with self-reliance, we can travel in our minds without interruption and doubt, as if we are the Buddhist who is doing meditation, focusing on one thing so that it can be done more efficient.

It is not that easy to control this kind of sense, even if you are smart and self-possessed people. Look at Newton again, although his former-life is full of realistic and excellent scientific theories, he became too self-reliance so he started studying something more theatrical which he may regard it as more advanced science which is religion. It is such a pity he gave up his science and was engaged in religion such a fantasy. In the real world, some self-reliance people are like Newton, they become isolated from the real world and focus on what they think is right. It does not only harmful to their business but their personalities. At the begining, they may just think of some crazy fantasy stuff and not concentrate on other things, afterward, they may even become isolated from outside, becoming silent; what is worse, they think up some bad thought and finally do it in the real world.