Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Lesson for today

I wanna share a touching story which I got from STFOGA yahoogroups. Had tears in my eyes when I read it. Told u I'm a wet blanket! Maybe u babes can get something out of this story.

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 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!!!

By the way.. I'm going back NEXT WEEK!! Yeay! Yeay! I'm so excited. Finally, I'll get to see my two 'bucuk's. Bucuk senior and bucuk junior. ;) Satu benda gila aku ni. Bila dah ada perkataan or ayat yang bole aku jeritkan bila aku countdown for something, aku jadi psycho. Ezzy mmg sakit jiwa bila aku jadi mcm ni. Mcm skrg ni, aku dah ada perkataan 'next week'. So, smpai aku dapat perkataan baru la aku akan jerit 'next week' everyday. So babes, till the word 'lusa'! Haha.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ja, nnt ko balik buat open house ekk.. boleh buat gathering baby Srikandi kat umah ko... abis la tunggang langgang umah mak ko nnt... tak pon wat kat umah ko aje... ahahahha

YANI said...

hi Jaja..best cerita tu kan..
Anyway, mesti tak sabar nak bukak mata setiap pagi hari2 nak tunggu esoknya kan...

zazaez said...

Timmy:
Ok ok. Kalau sempat mesti aku buat. Tp tu la. Selalunya mak aku buat 1 week after raya. Aku dah balik time tu. Nanti aku try pujuk mak aku. Rasa mcm x sempat. Rumah aku dah disewakan la Timmy. :(

Yani:
Mmg best. Touching. Nasib baik tak nangis. Hehe. Buat malu je..

Zahiril Adzim said...

aiks? macam kenal cerita ni. Ada orang buat short film pasa cerita ni bertanding kat cannes. Tapi watak dia lain sket.

Tengok lah!

http://www.dotmatrixproject.com/2008/07/22/historia-de-un-letrero-the-story-of-a-sign/

zazaez said...

Orait. Nanti akak tgk. Bila balik M'sia. Haha. Internet sini limited la. Menyakitkan jiwa betul..