Life is a big playground, where we learn new lessons every hour. And if we do not learn anything from these lessons, our life will be as miserable as a rag picker toiling all day for his meagre pay in the evening.You can choose your way: Do you want to lead a miserable life,or a prosperous and happy one?

Now a days the situation is that, blind men can lead others those who are blind and those who are not at all blind. These people who are blind followers have chosen their fate for misery.They are given their own chances to find out their way, to follow the right path. If people had used their brains instead of hearts to chose a leader, this world would have been a much better place to live in. Of course leaders live in splendour, from the wealth and power gained from their followers. These blind followers are the wealth of every leader. They exploit us, gain from us and when we have nothing to give them they thow us out like waste paper.

I was a blind follower too : I followed my love for money , fame and power. I still find them fascinating. But as life teaches us, these do come to us, if we work without having a look on them.

I have a friend Tom who trades in the stock market. He is at his thirties and much more experienced than me,follows news and gets his calls from Jay an analyst.

I doubted these analysts from long time back because they leave loop holes behind to escape from criticism. But Tom was a blind follower and never gave a second thought. As things turned out, when the big stock market crash came, Tom lost the bulk of his money. So he decided to contact Jay, what he said was, ” I always told you to trade cautiously, stock market is no childs play”. So did Tom learn a lesson?

Fortunately Tom did learn a lesson from that,” I will never follow anyone blindly” He told me later. But unfortunately all men are not a Tom or a Jay. There are dumb followers and good leaders. If you choose a good leader and yet follow them cautiously you have a chance to win. This world is not known to be soft to anyone.

Blind men who follow blind leaders out number , men who follow good leaders. Leadership which does not expect anything in return is the need of the hour.  But most of those leaders will be missionaries or school teachers!. Politicians can never be good leaders, because they expect power in return. Power is the worst wine anyone can drink. power makes people mad,makes them kings.

Learn from your mistakes, have the wisdom to select good from the bad, you are all geared up for life.