New Delhi, May 9 -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara said this as someone who had already chosen action over waiting. He was a doctor-turned-revolutionary who crossed continents to fight for causes not his own. He helped overthrow a dictatorship in Cuba.

He then left a position of power to go fight again in Africa and Bolivia. He did not theorise revolution from a comfortable distance. He lived it and ultimately died for it. That origin gives this quote a weight that most political statements never carry.

The apple metaphor is the entire lesson. An apple falls when conditions are ready. It requires nothing from you. Gravity does the work. Time does the work. You simply wait, and the fruit arrives.

Che Guevara is rejecting that model entirely. He ...