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Day by Day
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.
Link:
http://blog.bitcomet.com/post/47222/
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