Homework and exams, a daily affair,
Yet friendships and laughter, always to share.
In this journey of youth, we strive to excel,
For in these moments, our stories we tell.

Through ups and downs, we learn and grow,
The path may be tough, but our spirits aglow.
Class 10, a chapter in our life’s grand scheme,
We’ll cherish the memories, like a cherished dream.

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Honda Motor Corporation is one of the most successful automakers from Japan. What made Honda a huge success? It was its founder, Soichiro Honda, who took the hardest hits, and still got up and moved forward.

In 1938, when Soichiro was in school, he started a workshop to develop the piston ring that he hoped he could sell to Toyota. He worked seven days a week, even to the extent of sleeping in his workshop at times. Finally, he was able to complete his piston ring and sell it to Toyota. However, he was told that the rings did not meet their standards. Soichiro went back to school for two more years to improve the range of his invention.

He refused to quit. After two more years of struggle and improvement, he successfully won the contract with Toyota. He wanted to build a factory to supply materials to Toyota. Then, the Japanese government was gearing up for war, and the entire supply of concrete material was put into war efforts. This led to scarcity of raw materials to build his factory. Instead of giving up, he invented a new concrete-making process that enabled him to carry on with the work of building the factory. When the factory was completed and started functioning, it was bombed twice by American warplanes. Instead of giving up, he started collecting surplus gasoline cans discarded by U.S. fighters — “Gifts from President Truman”, he called them, which became the new raw materials for his manufacturing process. Again, an earthquake hit and destroyed his factory.

After the war, an extreme gasoline shortage forced people to walk or use bicycles. Soichiro saw this opportunity and built a tiny engine and attached to his bicycle. His neighbours asked him for such bicycles but lack of raw materials and money resisted him from starting another factory to make these ‘motor bikes’.

He still didn’t quit. He wrote letters to 18,000 bicycle shop owners and asked them to pay him in advance so he could re-build his factory to sell them his newly-invented motorbikes. Unfortunately, the first models were too bulky to work well, so he continued to develop and adapt till ‘The Super Cub’ became a success and took Japan by storm. Honda began exporting these bicycle engines to Europe and America.

This was how the Honda Motor Corporation was formed. Was that the end of his problems? Nope! The company continued running into financial problems. It also went near to bankruptcy five times, only to be turned around just in time. Every time he took a hit, Soichiro would just get up, learn from his mistakes and keep moving forward.

Today, the Honda Corporation employs over 100,000 people in the U.S. and Japan, and is one of the world’s largest automobile companies. Honda’s excellent engineering and clever marketing even resulted in its motorcycles outselling Triumph and Harley-Davidson in their respective home markets.

So the greater the success you want in life, the bigger the hits you need to face. There is a price to be paid for everything. And so is the case with success. The price may also be massive rejection, frustration and hard work. People don’t succeed either because they think that success comes easy or they are not willing to pay the price.

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Faith is believing it will happen when there are no signs that it will. Faith is believing in your dreams when no one else does. Faith is sitting amidst the storms of your life and still being able to close your eyes and picture sunny skies, still being able to feel better days coming despite the storms all around you.

Sometimes you need to risk it all for a dream only you can see. Have faith in your dream no matter what you have to sacrifice to get there. No matter how long it is going to take, “I’ll have faith it will work out in the end”.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole path; trusting that the rest of the path will reveal itself in time if you keep moving forward. It is said, “Only those who can see the invisible can achieve the impossible.”

Have faith that what you are picturing in your mind will come to life. Have faith, the struggle will pass. Have faith, your time will come because when you believe in yourself you are unstoppable. Let your faith be bigger than your fear, have faith, success will be near. It does not matter who you are right now or who you have been, if you have a relentless desire to succeed, if you have faith in yourself and above all, faith in God, you really can achieve anything in this world.

You alone are enough; nothing can dim the light that shines within you. You are the universe in human form. You are light. We delight in the beauty of a butterfly but rarely acknowledge the struggles it went through to achieve that beauty. You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated. Rise above the challenges and meet life again.

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As the sun rises and sets,
The vicious forces sustain unharmed.
And here, I strive to espy through dusty nets.
Raged but cuffed I stand,
Not a step I can advance from this cowardly land.

As the sun rises and sets,
Optimistic and stubborn I do remain.
To perceive this deadly aura, tougher it gets.
But my struggle shan’t end here,
For I sense the roar of my victory very near.

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