“Opportunity is not a lengthy
visitor,” what does this mean? I think many
of us have been taught this concept and have heard it phrased as, “Hurry, opportunity
is knocking.” When someone knocks on your door, you rush to answer it. You know that if you wait and take your time
to answer your door, the visitor will leave.
Opportunity is the same way. Time
passes by quickly in life and it’s not going to slow down so that you can
decide whether to accept your offer.
This proverb has a lot of truth to it and it is something that we as
humans don’t like to accept. I wouldn’t
exactly say that there’s a time or place where this proverb’s truth isn’t true,
but there could be situations where it breaks down. Some opportunities do come multiple times and
you are given several choices to take it, it’s just a matter of knowing when to
accept.
Another proverb that delivers an
important message is “The harder to get, the better to have.” Again, this is a lesson that many of us have
learned from childhood; that hard work pays off. Things that we have earned from working hard
and sacrificing the time to get have a lot more value and meaning. It wasn’t something that was just handed to
us on a silver platter, in those cases we just take for granted the meaning and
worth of it, and use it almost to a waste.
Where when we earn the object we are working for, it is something we
take the time to care for and continue to work hard at. It’s something you tend
to be proud of and want to keep up for as long as you can. I also believe that
this is a proverb that always rings truth; the better it is when you have to
work for it.
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