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.
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.'
The
most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling…
And
even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind
it!!!
