Be on the Minority

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, its time to pause and reflect"
                                                                                     ------ Mark Twain.

When I read this quote for the first time, I kept on thinking for minutes. I realized that most of us are following blindly what majority of other people are doing and majority of  people like to live a very secure and predictable life. They know exactly what they are going to do because they follow the majority and  a secure path. They find a job, marry, give birth to the children and keep on earning for their children. They continue to work and get promotion on the job, buy a house for the family, once or twice a year go abroad with the family, enjoy the available modern benefits and so on. To achieve these benefits, they have studied till they are 28 or 29 years old, they have a Masters or even PhD degree in hand and they start working in a company if they really like or not.

They work for the family, they work for the society and they work for the other people but they never work for themselves. This is the tragedy of life of most of us. We follow exactly what the rest of the people are doing in the world. We are so afraid to take risks and move forward differently than others.

 It is a crystal clear fact that only those people who have taken risks, who have thought differently and who have dreamed to change the world are the few successful people in the world. These people are the ones who would like to be on the side of the minority. They are the ones who love to do something unlike the majority of the people. They are the ones who bring their creativity and acted upon their sole philosophy of life. They are the ones who worked when people called them crazy. They are the ones who went to the extra miles and worked on the extra mile where nobody could disturb them.  They have left the clear and big footprints to the world. Hence, they are the ones who are always remebered by the generations to come. They are the ones who are always praised for their work.

So clearly realize where the majority of people are leading us, think once where you are heading towards and if you are going to fall on the same trap as the rest of the 95% people in the world, it is time to pause and think. It is time to choose the footsteps of the 5%. Follow the footsteps of these successful minority.