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.
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 1,000
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. Don't believe your doubts and doubt your beliefs. Life
is a mystery to solve, not a problem to resolve. Life is wonderful if
you know how to live.
Bhagavan Baba says, “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.”
(Source: Radio Sai)
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