April 10, 2005
As they prepared for the grueling,
four-mile Harvard-Yale Regatta, a young oarsman confided to a veteran,
“Sometimes I just don’t think I can make it.”
After
a moment of silence, the veteran softly replied, “I know. You just have to have faith in your
training.”
Another
story. An octogenarian monk was on his
deathbed. A younger monk attending him
asked, “Brother, do you feel anxious as death approaches? Do you feel sad?”
“Why
should I feel anxious or sad?”, asked the elder. “I have been preparing for this moment for
sixty years.”
