Originally published on 06/05/12, was based on an oral narration by my school teacher back then, apart from a minor grammatical edits, the story has been left untouched.
Following is a very interesting story which has a good moral which we should always remember and follow in every aspect of our life.
For your information: All characters in the story are fictional and do not resemble any person in real life.
The story:
In a class of forty students, there were twelve boys who were very good friends among themselves. All the boys in the group were good at something or the other.
Rahul was one of the boys in the group. He was a weak student. He was neither good at studies nor at sports, but he was an excellent dancer. He wanted to become like Rohit, a boy in the same group. Rohit was good at studies as well as sports. But do you know whom Rohit wanted to become like? He wanted to become like Ankit, a champion swimmer. But Ankit wanted to become like Rajat, who was a great basketball player. Rajat liked cricket very much and so he wanted to become like Gaurav who was a good batsman. But Gaurav had his own interest in singing and so wanted to become like Devansh who was a star singer in the whole school. But Devansh wanted to excel in dancing instead which was a growing trend these days. And so Devansh wanted to become a good dancer like Rahul himself.
So what was happening here? Each boy was copying some boy or the other. None of the boys in the whole group could achieve anything. They lost their talent, their original talent which they had been practising since years.
We should not copy each other just because they are an expert in a particular field. However we should practice our own specialities so that we may stand out in the world. However there is no harm in learning good qualities that others posses. But that does not mean that we start copying everything he or she does.
Note added by Ansh on 20/06/17: Almost five years down the line, today, when I'm now and then confused in taking major decisions in my life, this is the story I fall back on; basically I'm not the next (insert name of a well established person), I'm the first me. Part of this is inspired from a Classmate advert serie, but it holds firm in the modern day scenario.
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