Beautiful Truth of Life

There is an interesting incident in the book Q & A by Vikas Swarup (later adapted by Danny Boyle into Slumdog Millionaire).

Ram Mohammed Thomas, the protagonist, is travelling in a train. He has around 50,000 rupees—all his savings—with him.

Suddenly, burglars barge into the compartment with revolvers and steal the money from him.

Ram gets to grab the revolver and in the fight that ensues, he shoots the burglar and runs away.

He feels dejected for losing the hard earned money and life being unkind to him.

Years later, he gets a chance a play Who Will Win a Billion? and successfully answers the six questions.

Then, the judge Prem Kumar asks: ‘Okay, here is question number 7. Who invented the revolver? The options are…

A. Samuel Colt 
B. Bruce Browning 
C. Dann Wesson and 
D. James Revolver’

Ram remembers the word ‘Colt’ chiseled on the revolver when he had held it while shooting the burglar. So, he takes a chance and says ‘Option A Samuel Colt’

The answer turns correct and he wins 200,000 rupees.

Then he thinks,

I couldn’t believe it. I have got my 50,000 rupees with three times back interest.

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One beautiful truth about life is it takes away your happiness and it gives it back you again sometime later in a different form.

And the best thing you can do at this time is to just hold on and stay strong.

If nature has to power to give you the worst experience, it also has the power to give you the best experience.

This happened to me and to most of the people around me.


Source:

Q & A (novel) - Wikipedia