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The Wisdom of Life
Today, airplanes fly and glide all around the world, all
thanks to the contribution made in the beginning by the
Wright brothers. However, the Wright brothers never
got to see this day. Had they acted on the philosophy of
Absurdism and not worked on the flying machine, the
world today would have been unimaginable.

If Rockefeller would have thought about the disadvantages
he had, America would have been deprived of some great
institutions. America relentlessly did phenomenal work
in the field of research which cost it billions of dollars,
although every time research does not yield an immediate
outcome. The price of development and planning is
future progress.

60 What is a realistic approach to life?

he realistic approach is ‘the art of the possible’. That
Twhich is not possible only leads to violence. A gardener
once planted flowers in the park in front of my house.
Some kids came and plucked them out. A vegetable
vendor on the road saw this happening from outside
and scolded the children away. The children returned
crying with their parents and they troubled the vegetable
vendor so much that he had to move his shop away from
there. He interfered with something that was not in his
domain. This is an example of being unrealistic. The
society or the park authorities should have intervened in
the matter – why did the vegetable vendor speak up? The
realistic approach is to approach the real stakeholders
and not step out of one’s own domain.

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