Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Today is a beautiful day..

Hmmm..it reminds me about a story which my granny used to tell & i wanna share it here.

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat.He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words. Soon the hat began to fill up.A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?" The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way." What he had written was: "Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it." Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing? Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have.. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively.

Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Great men say, "Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness. In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of a good conscience.."

2 comments:

GSP said...

Good one Dumbo...You are right... one has to challenge conventional thinking...challenge existing ideas and develop concepts...Always look for alternatives--is there a better way to deal things...Be creative.. use techniques such as Randon Entry.. Concept Layers... and then harvest all the thinking, ideas and concepts, then review them for what can work or cannot work....

jayasree said...

Yes...absolutely right my dear,Keep excavating different approach before landing to a conclusion.Which certainly helps to a certain level..