1. Everyone Has a Story in Life
A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted…
“Dad, look the trees are going behind!”
Dad
smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s
childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed…
“Dad, look the clouds are running with us!”
The couple couldn’t resist and said to the old man…
“Why
don’t you take your son to a good doctor?”The old man smiled and
said…“I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind
from birth, he just got his eyes today.
Every single person on the planet has a story. Don’t judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you.
2. Shake off Your Problems
A
man's favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice; He can't pull it out
no matter how hard he tries; He therefore decides to bury it alive.
Soil is poured onto the donkey from above. The donkey feels the load, shakes it off, and steps on it; More soil is poured.
It
shakes it off and steps up; The more the load was poured, the higher it
rose; By noon, the donkey was grazing in green pastures.
After much shaking off (of problems) And stepping up (learning from them), One will graze in GREEN PASTURES.
3. The Elephant Rope
As
a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the
fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied
to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the
elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some
reason, they did not.
He
saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and
made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very
young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at
that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are
conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can
still hold them, so they never try to break free.”
The
man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their
bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right
where they were.
Like
the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief
that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?
Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life.
4. Potatoes, Eggs, and Coffee Beans
Once
upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was
miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was
tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one
problem was solved, another one soon followed.
Her
father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with
water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil,
he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground
coffee beans in the third pot.
He
then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The
daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After
twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of
the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed
them in a bowl.
He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?”
“Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look
closer,” he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they
were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling
off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her
to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity– the boiling water.
However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The
egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid
interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the
egg became hard.
However,
the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the
boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which
are you,” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door,
how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean? “
Moral:In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is what happens within us.
Which one are you?
5. A Dish of Ice Cream
In
the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10 year old boy
entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass
of water in front of him.
“How much is an ice cream sundae?”
“50 cents,” replied the waitress.
The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied a number of coins in it.
“How
much is a dish of plain ice cream?” he inquired. Some people were now
waiting for a table and the waitress was a bit impatient.
“35 cents,” she said brusquely.
The little boy again counted the coins. “I’ll have the plain ice cream,” he said.
The
waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked
away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and departed.
When the waitress came back, she began wiping down the table and then swallowed hard at what she saw.
There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, were 15 cents – her tip.
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