To Live Is To Fly

Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small transport plane said he had been caught in a one hundred and fifty-mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motors were roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving an inch.

"It was weird" he concluded,"to be going one hundred and fifty miles an hour and yet not going anywhere at all!"

Sometimes we seem to be doing something very much like this. No matter how hard we push forward we seem to be getting no where at all. Then is the time to remember that he who does not try to go ahead is bound to find that he is going back.

If the pilot of the plane had shut off his motors, he would probably never have lived to tell the story. It was only because he made an effort to go forward that he was able to stand still!

So if it takes you all the running you can do to keep in one place...to get ahead with the current state of the economy, you may need to run twice as fast.