5 BEST INSPIRING STORIES IN THE WORLD.
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 any time, 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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