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?
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Moral of the Story:
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Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively. Invite
others towards good with wisdom. Live life
with no excuses 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!!!
