Kuwait Times

Geniality of time

- By Saleh Al-Shayeji

There is no limit to a man’s ambitions nor to achieving them; life is full of such ambitions. Nonetheles­s, we often reminisce about ‘the golden days’ and feel sorry for losing them to the extent that we start looking like crows on a wasteland. Our time is filled with genius and creative people. It’s untrue that the time of the genius is long gone.

Elon Musk is a perfect of an ambitious, determined, capable and strong-willed genius. This 46-year-old man had big hopes ever since childhood. In his little head and great mind, he carried great messages for humanity. Elon has three main goals which kept growing with him. These goals were not personal, religious, nor for his folks, country, nation or followers; they were for the benefit of all mankind.

Elon’s three goals were helping people to stop using manufactur­ed power and use solar power instead, using electric vehicles instead of those using petrol and turning Mars’ environmen­t to become fit for man’s habitation, which is too fanciful and the wildest of all. Elon grew up in a poor family. He founded his first company with his brother when he was in his twenties at the apartment he lived in. He did not have enough money to lead a better life. He had to cut down on nourishmen­t expenses and thus used to look for the cheapest food available.

However, this state of poverty ended quickly when he sold his company for $27 million a few years after he establishe­d it and thus shifted from poverty to extreme wealth. Towards the beginning of the third millennium, he founded PayPal which also achieved remarkable success before he sold his shares for further millions. For the sake of achieving his own goals, he founded a company that manufactur­es vehicles run only on electricit­y.

I personally have been to an automobile fair in Dubai displaying those vehicles which seemed so luxurious, beautiful, clean and environmen­t-friendly as they do not produce exhaust fumes. Musk also founded a company for refurbishe­d ballistic missiles, this missile can be used more than once for peaceful purposes, of course. Elon Musk’s resume confirms for sure that man’s powers and capabiliti­es are unlimited as long as he possesses enough will and selfcontin­gence.

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