I will a post a beautiful story...today...
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?
Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively.
Invite others towards good with wisdom. Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the 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."
The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling.
And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!!!
Touched.
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I'd say the second sign used a form of marketing that induces people to buy with the help of a message that makes people feel guilty, so that their guilt is assuaged when the sale is closed.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure if that is entirely positive.
I, for one, think that it would've been far better if the man had helped the boy become self-reliant in some way.
For example, I once purchased a few posters of cars and motorbikes from a blind man who had set up a stall on a pavement by a road-side. He told me the price. I handed him a currency-note without telling him the denomination. He felt it with his hands and then returned the correct amount of change.
I like the message that you tried to give with your story.. the "Being Positive" advice.
ReplyDeleteIt also reminded me of this other advice i read somewhere last week, given by a woman whose name I am forgetting right now so I'm sorry that i can not give due credit to the author here.
The advice though was to write 5 good things that happened to you at the end of each day on a piece of paper. continue doing this for one week. for the first few days, you will have trouble trying to recall the good things that happened that day. at the end of the week, the good things will come to you automatically when you pick up the pen. this is because in your mind you have started to notice the little good things happening to you in the course of the day because you know you have to record them in a little diary. this will help you think differently and positively because you will start to notice all the little nice things around you which you didnt do before :)
Nice story... and really inspirational
ReplyDeletenice... i could really use some inspiration right now and it helped :)
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