Wednesday, November 7, 2007

The Pencil Story

A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point , he asked : Are you writing a story about what we have done? Is the story about me?”

His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson:I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I m using. I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.”

Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil, “It didn’t seem very special. But it’s just like any other pencil I’ve ever seen!”

That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which , if you manage to hang on to them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.

First Quality : you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your step. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to his will.”

Second Quality : now and then, I have to stop writing and use sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he is much sharper . So you, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person . “

Third Quality : the pencil always allow us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did not necessarily a bad things, it helps to keep us on road to justice. “

Fourth Quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.”

Finally, the pencil’s fifth quality: it always leaves a mark. In just the same way, you should know that every thing you do in life leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action.”

Take Care of My Eyes

There was a blind girl who hated herself because of being blind. She hated everyone except her boyfriend. One day, the girl said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend. One lucky day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her! Then she saw everything including her boyfriend…. Her boyfriend then asked her,” Now that u can see, will you marry me?” The girl was SHOCKED when she saw that her boyfriend was blind! She said,” I am sorry but i can’t marry you because u are blind.” Her boyfriend walked away with tears… and said, “Please just take care of my eyes”

You are never Helpless

An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to
spade his potato
garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who
would have helped him,
was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son
and mentioned his
situation.

Dear Son,

I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won’t
be able to plant
my potato garden this year. I hate to miss doing the
garden, because
your mother always loved planting time. I’m just
getting too old to be
digging up a garden plot.

If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I
know you would dig
the plot for me, if you weren’t in prison.

Love, Dad

Shortly, the old man received this telegram: “For
Heaven’s sake, Dad,
don’t dig up the garden!!! That’s where I buried the
GUNS”

At 4 a.m . the next morning,

A dozen FBI agents and local police officers showed up
and dug up the
entire garden without finding any guns.

Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son
telling him what
happened, and asked him what to do next.

His son’s reply was: “Go ahead and plant your
potatoes, Dad. It’s the
best I could do for you from here.”

Moral Of the Story -

NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD, IF YOU HAVE
DECIDED TO DO
SOMETHING DEEP FROM YOUR HEART, YOU CAN DO IT. IT IS
THE THOUGHT THAT MATTERS
NOT WHERE YOU ARE.

The 99 Club

Once upon a time, there lived a King who, despite his luxurious lifestyle,
was neither happy nor content.

One day, the King came upon a servant who was singing happily while he
worked. This fascinated the King; why was he, the Supreme Ruler of the Land,
unhappy and gloomy, while

A lowly servant had so much joy. The King asked the servant, ” Why are you
so happy?”

The man replied, ” Your Majesty, I am nothing but a servant, but my family
and I don’t need too much - just a roof over our heads and warm food to fill
our tummies .”

The king was not satisfied with that reply. Later in the day, he sought the
advice of his most trusted advisor. After hearing the King’s woes and the
servant’s story, the advisor said, ” Your Majesty, I believe that the
servant has not been made part of The 99 Club.”

” The 99 Club? And what exactly is that?” the King inquired.

The advisor replied, ” Your Majesty, to truly know what The 99 Club is,
place 99 Gold coins in a bag and leave it at this servant’s doorstep.”

When the servant saw the bag, he took it into his house. When he opened the
bag, he let out a great shout of joy… So many gold coins!

He began to count them. After several counts, he was at last convinced that
there were 99 coins. He wondered, ” What could’ve happened to that last gold
coin? Surely, no one would leave 99 coins! “

He looked everywhere he could, but that final coin was elusive. Finally,
exhausted, he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever to
earn that gold coin and complete his collection.

From that day, the servant’s life was changed. He was overworked, horribly
grumpy, and castigated his family for not helping him make that 100th gold
coin. He stopped singing while he worked.

Witnessing this drastic transformation, the King was puzzled. When he sought
his advisor’s help, the advisor said, ” Your Majesty, the servant has now
officially joined The 99 Club. “

He continued, ” The 99 Club is a name given to those people who have enough
to be happy but are never contented, because they’re always yearning and
striving for that extra 1 telling to themselves: “Let me get that one final
thing and then I will be happy for life .”

We can be happy, even with very little in our lives, but the minute we’re
given something bigger and better, we want even more! We lose our sleep, our
happiness, we hurt the people around us; all these as a price for our
growing needs and desires. That’s what joining The 99 Club is all about.”