Opportunities are only for the prepared minds

Many people do not agree about opportunity. Some think that opportunity is so rare that only the luckiest persons have it. This can be proved by the fact that great successes have been so few as to be counted one's fingers. Others argue that everyone has opportunity at one time or another in his or her life.

But when you read the Scottish singer Susan Boyle's story and her experiences, you probablely could believe that opportunity is equal to each of us. As a western saying goes, "Every dog has its day," there are opportunities for everybody. In fact, we can't find anyone in the world who never has his chance to succeed during his life. Those who claim that they have been out of luck can't recognize or make good use of opportunity. We should know that who seizes the right moment is the right man. If a farmer didn't sow his seeds in spring, he would be unlikely to get crops in autumn.

If  Hellen Keller had rufused her teacher's help, she might have been as ignorant as any other inborn blind. What's more important, opportunity will not servea man on its own initiative unless he makes more opportunity than he finds it. Before Newton almost everyone had seen an apple or a similar fruit falling from a tree, but only Newton discovered the law of gravity because he had developed a good habit of thinking over answers to problems and stuck to his studies in spite of difficulties. All above the stories tell us that a wise man is always creating his opportunity rather than wait for it.

In a word, in my opinion, everyone has opportunity and can make use of it. Those who take advantage of it succeed. So I believe the proverb, "opportunities are only for the prepared minds".