One day Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He
told her, “My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to only give it to my
mother.”
His mother’s eyes were tearful as she read the letter out loud to her child:
Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have
enough good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself.
After many, many years, after Edison’s mother died and he was now one of
the greatest inventors of the century, one day he was looking through old
family things. Suddenly he saw a folded paper in the corner of a drawer in a
desk. He took it and opened it up.
On the paper was written: Your son is addled [mentally ill]. We won’t let him
come to school any more.
Edison cried for hours and then he wrote in his diary: “Thomas Alva Edison
was an addled child that, by a hero mother, became the genius of the
century.”
Never Give up. Be confident. Remember – (be it life, sports, career or
any competition) – any battle is won twice – FIRST IN YOUR
HEAD…….
