Determination,Desire,Persistence and endurance-To make dream come true.

Determination & Desire with Persistence & Endurance can make dream come true.

In the year 1883, a creative and innovative engineer named Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with Long Island. However the bridge building experts through out the world thought, this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just cannot be done as it was not practical and had never been done before.


Roebling could not give up and ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge and thought about it all the time, and knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share his vision with some one else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an upcoming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.


Working together, for the first time, the father and son developed the concept of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration and headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.


The project started off well, but only when it was few months under way, a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move.


Negative comments started pouring in

“We told them so”

“Crazy men and their crazy dreams”

“It is foolish to chase a wild vision”


Every one had only negative comments to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap, Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.


He tried to inspire and passion his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay on his bed in the hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside just for a moment.


It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and decided to make best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.


He touched his wife’s arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under the way again.


For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife’s arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man’s indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their teamwork, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the message of her husband and told the engineers what to do.


Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a NEVER-SAY-DIE attitude that overcomes a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal.


Often when we face obstacles in our day-to-day life, our hurdles seem very small in comparison to what many others have to face. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us, dreams that seem impossible can be realized with determination and persistence, no matter what the odds are.


“EVEN THE MOST DISTANT DREAM CAN BE REALISED WITH DETERMINATION, DESIRE, PERSISTENCE & ENDURANCE”


“DO NOT GIVE UP VISION AND AMBITION: DESIRE WITH DETERMINATION CAN CERTAINLY MAKE IT HAPPEN”

J.KANNAN