What you can do when the whole world says that your opinion is absolutely wrong?
Years ago, I had read a novel titled "No Highway" by Nevil Shute
An aviation scientist was flying on plane. He was working on a theory that every air craft metal has an age. After certain hours of flying, every air craft is bound to crash in air automatically.
Suddenly, he found that the plane in which he was flying was about to complete its metal age flying hours. If his theory was right, then the plane in which he was travelling was liable to crash in the air in two hours.
Neither Pilot nor anyone was ready to believe him or to stop flight. There were yet no evidence of his theory.
The scientist was facing a situation of No Highway. No one was ready to listen to his opinion or theory.
As he saw, life of everyone on flight was in danger.
He decides to act as per his belief. He does a mad act which compulsorily stops plane from further flying.
This is how he acted as per his belief even if the whole world was against him.
20 years after this novel was published, scientists actually found that theory described in novel was right and it was cause behind many air craft crashes.
This novel inspired me a lot.
Haresh Raichura
6/10/13
