A story tells that two
friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they
had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.
The one who got slapped
was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand;
They kept on walking
until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had
been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved
him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone;
“Today my best friend saved my
life.”
The friend who had
slapped and saved his best friend asked him;
“After I hurt you, you wrote in
the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”
The other friend
replied;
“When someone hurts us we
should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But,
when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no
wind can ever erase it.”
Moral of the story:
Don’t value the things
you have in your life. But value who you have in your life.
2-The Four Smart Students
One night
four college students were out partying late night and didn’t study for the
test which was scheduled for the next day. In the morning, they thought of a
plan.
They made themselves look dirty
with grease and dirt.
Then they went to the Dean and
said they had gone out to a wedding last night and on their way back the tire
of their car burst and they had to push the car all the way back. So they were
in no condition to take the test.
The Dean thought for a minute and
said they can have the re-test after 3 days. They thanked him and said they
will be ready by that time.
On the third day, they appeared
before the Dean. The Dean said that as this was a Special Condition Test, all
four were required to sit in separate classrooms for the test. They all agreed
as they had prepared well in the last 3 days.
The Test consisted of only 2 questions with the total of 100
Points:
3-Two Friends & The Bear
Vijay and Raju were friends.
On a holiday they went walking into a forest, enjoying the beauty of nature.
Suddenly they saw a bear coming at them. They became frightened. Raju, who knew
all about climbing trees, ran up to a tree and climbed up quickly. He didn’t
think of Vijay. Vijay had no idea how to climb the tree. Vijay thought for a
second. He’d heard animals don’t prefer dead bodies, so he fell to the ground
and held his breath. The bear sniffed him and thought he was dead. So, it went
on its way. Raju asked Vijay; “What did the bear whisper into your ears?”
Vijay
replied, “The bear asked me to keep away from friends like you” …and went on
his way.
4- The Struggles of our
Life 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 one 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 of the story: In
life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that
truly matters is how you choose to react to it and what you make out of it.
Life is all about leaning, adopting and converting all the struggles that we
experience into something positive.
5- The
Greedy Lion
It was an
incredibly hot day, and a lion was feeling very hungry. He came out of his den
and searched here and there. He could find only a small hare. He caught the
hare with some hesitation. “This hare can’t fill my stomach” thought the lion.
As the lion was about to kill the hare, a deer ran that way. The lion became
greedy. He thought; “Instead of eating this small hare, let me eat the big
deer.” He let the hare go and went behind the deer. But the deer had vanished
into the forest. The lion now felt sorry for letting the hare off.
