Interesting story..

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I shall not quote the exact story but rather an analogy. For those who know what this is about, these are just my comments with no personal attacks. For the rest who don’t know what it is about, just enjoy the story.

A boy wanted to enter a matchstick lighting competition and had spent days and nights studying about the best method to strike a match and he also studied about the different materials that were used to create the matches. All this was done in an attempt to ensure victory. To top it all, it must also be stated that the previous year's winner was his best friend who had a average of 95 lights per 100 attempts. Despite this, the boy refused to go to his best friend for advice.

The boy knew all that he needed to know, he bought a set of different brands of matches and practiced day and night till he was able to strike a match behind his back held between his ring and little finger.

He slept early on the day before the competition but despite that, he was unable to wake up on time for the competition. Upon getting up, he rushed to his cupboard (where he kept his matchboxes) and RANDOMLY picked a few boxes and stuffed them into his pocket. He rushed to the venue and had just made it in the nick of time.

At the venue, he was asked to place 5 of the boxes he was going to use on the judges table he once again RANDOMLY took 5 and discarded the rest into a nearby bin. The sad thing was that he had placed into one of those 5 boxes all the matches that he was unable to light previously.

He now had entered a competition with 5 randomly chosen boxes. Is he still going to win despite the odds against him? It will be one full year before I know for sure...

Here is what a friend of mine told me, "It's not about the matches but about whether he remembers all that he has learnt," when I told him that there was no way he could win.