The word STRUGGLE has come to have a negative meaning. But according to me every struggle is victory.  It’s never easy to be great. If it were, everything would be amazing and easy and eventually have no worth there is no shortcut to achievement.

To be able to stay the course and be committed and thrive on challenges requires more than intellect or academic achievements. It requires the right attitude. This often heeds back to childhood and how the environment in which we rear children has been. Do we raise them with optimism and teach them not to fear? Do we communicate to our children that every opportunity has a difficulty and that every difficulty is an opportunity or do we rush and catch them before they can fall and learn from their mistakes? Are we not letting our children develop their emotional and intellectual strength because we do not let them ever stumble? Are we trying to make today so easy that their tomorrow will be difficult for them?

Our children need to know that tough times are inevitable. It is natural for us to protect our children but sometimes it has the negative impact. Children cannot fend for themselves if we pave their path and it too easy for them. We will also rob them of the feeling of achievement that follows struggle. We should not keep them away from struggle. When children know that every day is an adventure and they only have to know how to correct their course and steer themselves in the right direction, they will pick themselves up and take the right steps.

I²ITis the institute where faculty get all required support to nurture students beyond syllabus.Together with I²IT, I wish that every student would learn the skill to tackle every failure to get all the success.

At the end I would like to say that without painful struggle there wouldn’t beMr.Sachin Tendulkarcalled as a “God of Cricket”, Dr. Abdul Kalam called as a “Missile Man” and Mr.Amitabh Bachchan called as a “Star of Millennium”.

The author of this blog article is Dipak Raut, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, Hope Foundation’s International Institute of Information Technology, (I²IT), Pune (www.isquareit.edu.in) (dipakr@isquareit.edu.in)