When a See-saw does not tilt.

Effort. When one works towards a goal that one wishes to achieve. The work done, is called effort.

Be it from studying for a school exam, to working for money and food, to a simple hour or two spent playing a game. We're constantly putting effort into anything and everything that we wish to achieve.

Every effort put in is expected to have a result. As is the law of nature and physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

But what happens when the effort put in does not come to par with the expected output? What if the amount of pressure applied on one side of a see-saw is not enough to move the see-saw and tilt it the other way around? Can you say that there is any pressure applied? When all effort put in to a single objective fails to bring about any progress, do you say that no effort has been put in?

Mankind is always striving towards self-betterment and improvement. When effort is put in, then there has to be change. When work is done, it has to be purposeful. To fulfill a certain need or another. When a person does something, he is bound to expect it to result in a certain level of change.

When he walks, he expects to get somewhere, when he talks, he expects somebody to hear, and when he cries, he expects somebody to care. It is the nature of man to expect results.

Is work done without purpose and change a wasted effort? Is digging the sand upon the beach a waste of time? When all one wishes to do is bathe in sea water, is it fine for one to waste his effort digging in the sand? And if you cannot reach the sea under the sand, did your effort all go to waste? Is there no achievement in it?

When a single droplet of water falls from the heavens, none would take notice. But when it falls by the dozens, people would see and hear it and call it rain. Such is the case for effort. A single drop makes not much a difference. Yet when a torrent is unleashed, then it becomes a storm.

So does every tiny bit of effort count?