What Goes Around Comes Around!by Dilip Saraf

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What Goes around Comes around (WGACA)

Throughout your career you may encounter varying degrees of success,setbacks, and opportunities to show your true self. Career transitions arechallenging times and those in transition are in a heightened state of emotion.As a result, all experiences, good and bad get amplified. So, if someonetreats you with disdain because you are in need of a job and goes out oftheir way to make demean you, the best strategy is to swallow the pride and move on, rather than become vengeful. The Universe has a unfailing way to taking care of those who engage in such behavior. This is why such behavior is presented here as WGACA and the following story is a true tale of how a simple act of doing the right thing selflessly can result in something good at a later time. When times are tough and things do not seem to be going your way, it is easy to transfer that to others. Don't! As this story illustrates, you have the power to break that cycle and do the right thing!

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His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. Oneday, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry forhelp coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to thebog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy,screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved thelad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparsesurroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out andintroduced himself as the father of the boy who had been saved."I want to repay you:' said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life.""No' replied the farmer, waving off the offer. "I can't acceptpayment for what I did." At that moment, the farmer's own soncame to the door of the family hovel."Is that your son?" the nobleman asked."Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

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"I’ll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to become a man you can be proud of.''And that he did. In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known worldwide as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved him? It was the very Penicillin that Fleming had invented.What was the name of the nobleman? It was none other than Lord Randolph Churchill, whose son, Sir Winston Churchill, went on to achieve greatness in his own right.