If this is Perseverance:
Strolling through my garden is a very interesting sport to me. The day when a new shoot appeared in a sapling used to give me a real boost. Nurturing them gave an immense joy and it was in fact like getting recharged in between everyday schedules in life. This tiny little cutting of jasmine too was fulfilling my long craving for having a jasmine plant at home. Many a time I found its struggle to survive with its tiny shoots shrivelled up and dried. But each time I saw it in that pathetic condition, something in me said, No, don't let it go...Care for it! It will survive...It will start yielding beautiful jasmine with its scintillating perfume around one day! Instinctively I adhered to my inner voice. I slowly drew the feeble stem out. With an eye like that of a surgeon, I could spot out the fungi at the tip of the feeble root. Very carefully I snipped it out and again planted it. This time with utmost care. Slowly but very slowly I could see my l...