Perseverence Pays!

"Many of life's failures are people who didnot know how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas Alva Edison

True indeed..
After working for 10 hours trying to fix a connection problem in my program, I almost gave up....

I kept at it, and 1 hr later I found the fix...
And all the trouble vanished in a moment...

Giving up is a simple, temporary solution to problems but it is Persistence that pays in the end...

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