Ilaalcha Gaarii

This is the true story of two young men who were attending the University of Southern California together. They decided to take a trip together during their summer break. So they saved up their money to go to India, and they spent the whole summer there with their backpacks on, taking trains and seeing the cities and the countryside. They saw millions of poor people. They had never seen such poverty before. They had never seen such filth. They were overwhelmed. One day, they were in a hostel, and one of the guys looked out of a second-story window. As far as his eyes could see, he saw poverty-stricken Indian people. They were barefoot, living in the mud. The men had no shirts on, and the children were naked. Flies were swarming and crawling all over them. He said to his friend, “Gosh, man, look at all the poor people. They don’t have any shoes on, and they don’t even have clothes.” His buddy came to the window. He said, “Yeah, man, wow. What a place for a shoe business.” That’s all he said. The two guys went back home and returned to college. They were both in the same classes. They were both studying business administration. As the second guy sat in class, he could not get the pictures of India out of his mind. He saw all those bare feet. So he started sketching on a piece of paper in the back of the class. He ended up designing a pair of shoes that could be made out of plastic and mass-produced. He decided to drop out of school, against people’s advice, because he had become obsessed with this idea about shoes for India. His friend said to him, “You are crazy. You’ve got to stay in school and get a job so you can make a living.” But the guy had this idea, and he was going to see what he could do with it. So he got somebody to make a prototype, and he found acompany that said they could produce it for 15 cents a pair. He went to his brother’s friend for start-up nancing. His brother’s friend said, “Do you have a market for these shoes?” “Yes, I have a market—millions of barefoot Indians. I’ve got a big market in India. If we make this shoe for 15 cents, we can ship it over there and sell it for 50 cents, and we could get a shoe business going.” His brother’s friend thought that sounded good. Within 12 months, they had produced over 3 million pairs of shoes, and they shipped them to some of the big cities in India. The guy became a millionaire in one year. He never did go back to school. When his friend graduated the following year, he hired him to be his accountant.

You see, the dierence between those two young guys was in what they could see out that window. Both of them had the same scene in front of them—acres of barefoot people. But whereas one guy saw only poor, barefoot men, women, and children, the other guy saw something else—a way to help the people and a way to step up higher himself. One saw a crisis situation; the other saw an opportunity instead. It was a matter of perspective, vision, and hard work.
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This is the true story of two young men who were attending the University of Southern California together. They decided to take a trip together during their summer break. So they saved up their money to go to India, and they spent the whole summer there with their backpacks on, taking trains and seeing the cities and the countryside. They saw millions of poor people. They had never seen such poverty before. They had never seen such filth. They were overwhelmed. One day, they were in a hostel, and one of the guys looked out of a second-story window. As far as his eyes could see, he saw poverty-stricken Indian people. They were barefoot, living in the mud. The men had no shirts on, and the children were naked. Flies were swarming and crawling all over them. He said to his friend, “Gosh, man, look at all the poor people. They don’t have any shoes on, and they don’t even have clothes.” His buddy came to the window. He said, “Yeah, man, wow. What a place for a shoe business.” That’s all he said. The two guys went back home and returned to college. They were both in the same classes. They were both studying business administration. As the second guy sat in class, he could not get the pictures of India out of his mind. He saw all those bare feet. So he started sketching on a piece of paper in the back of the class. He ended up designing a pair of shoes that could be made out of plastic and mass-produced. He decided to drop out of school, against people’s advice, because he had become obsessed with this idea about shoes for India. His friend said to him, “You are crazy. You’ve got to stay in school and get a job so you can make a living.” But the guy had this idea, and he was going to see what he could do with it. So he got somebody to make a prototype, and he found acompany that said they could produce it for 15 cents a pair. He went to his brother’s friend for start-up nancing. His brother’s friend said, “Do you have a market for these shoes?” “Yes, I have a market—millions of barefoot Indians. I’ve got a big market in India. If we make this shoe for 15 cents, we can ship it over there and sell it for 50 cents, and we could get a shoe business going.” His brother’s friend thought that sounded good. Within 12 months, they had produced over 3 million pairs of shoes, and they shipped them to some of the big cities in India. The guy became a millionaire in one year. He never did go back to school. When his friend graduated the following year, he hired him to be his accountant.

You see, the dierence between those two young guys was in what they could see out that window. Both of them had the same scene in front of them—acres of barefoot people. But whereas one guy saw only poor, barefoot men, women, and children, the other guy saw something else—a way to help the people and a way to step up higher himself. One saw a crisis situation; the other saw an opportunity instead. It was a matter of perspective, vision, and hard work.
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BY Ilaalcha Gaarii