Story of A Boy...!!! #inspirational

This is a story of a Boy grew up in the island of Rameswaram, in south India.

His father, a humble boat owner, was a devout Muslim and a close friend of the Rameswaram temple priest.

He had seven siblings, and a doting mother who, at times, made chappatis for Boy, while the others were given rice as Boy’s day would start at four in the morning and end at 11 pm.

His father wasn’t educated, but he wanted his boy to study. Boy would get up at 4 am, bathe, and then go for his mathematics class, which was taught by a teacher who took only five students in the whole session; and bathing before class was a condition he had laid to all his students.

After his morning class, Boy along with his cousin went around town distributing the newspaper. As the town had no electricity, kerosene lamps were lit at his home between 7 pm and 9 pm. But because boy studied until 11, his mother would save some for him for later use.

Being a bright student, Boy always had the support of his schoolteachers.Schwarzt High School’s Iyadurai Solomon often told Boy that if he truly, intensely desired something, he would get it. “This made him fearless,”

After finishing school, he took up Physics at St Joseph’s College, Trichi, but towards the end he was dissatisfied. When he discovered aeronautical engineering, he regretted having lost three precious years. But he was glad to have discovered Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy and F Scott Fitzgerald and other English poets in his college years.

At Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Chennai, where Boy studied aeronautics, he learnt an important lesson: the value of time.

He was leading a project on system design, when one day the principal walked into the class to see his work. 

He appeared dissatisfied and told Boy that he wanted the project finished in the next two days; else his scholarship aid would be withdrawn. That unsettled Boy; years of his father’s hardships would come to naught. Boy worked without food and sleep. 

On the last day, his professor came to check on his progress. He was impressed and said: “I was putting you under stress and asking you to meet a difficult deadline,”.

Although Boy has led several projects in his professional life, he’s treated each like his last. Such was his passion. “He has this unique capability of being a boss as well as a worker. He can take on any role with ease.”

Later on the Boy became President of India who develop SLV-3, Agni, Akash, Trishul and Nag missiles. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan and Bharat Ratna; one of the few presidents who have touched the hearts of so many poor children in the country. Because he also came from a poor background, he knew the power of education in changing one’s future. 

" The BOY was Dr. APJ ABDUL KALAM " An Inspiration to whole World.....!!