Saturday, February 28, 2009

Creative touch

Dear Readers, on this last day I would like to end the posts of the month with an extraordinary event took place on the inaugural day of Abraham Lincoln as the president of U.S.
Going to be the president of U.S and on the very first day of his role, it has been a wonderful incident to prove himself before the senate and the world on what he was. 
One must get clear from this post that it is not important the way you start but it is important the way you end. Also must not forget your roots even if after becoming as a leader of entire world. You are still a human being with the death no exception for you.

On the first day, as President Abraham Lincoln entered to give his inaugural address, just in the middle, one man stood up. He was a rich aristocrat.
He said, "Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used to make shoes for my family". And the whole Senate laughed; they though they had made a fool of Abraham Lincoln.
But Lincoln – and that type of people are made of a totally different mettle; Lincoln looked at the man and said, Sir I know that that my father used to make shoes in your house for your family, and there will be many others here…because the way he made shoes; nobody else can. He was a creator. His shoes ware not just shoes; he poured his whole soul in it. I want to ask you, have you any complaint? Because I know how to make shoes myself; if you have any complaint I can make another pair of shoes. But as far as I know, nobody has ever complained about my father's shoes. He was genius, a great creator and I am proud of my father".
The whole Senate was struck dumb. They could not understand what kind of man Abraham Lincoln was. He had made shoe making an art, a creativity. And he was proud because his father did the job so well that not even a single complaint had ever been heard.
It does not matter what you do. What matter is how you do it – of our own accord, with your own vision, with your own love. Then whatever you touch become gold

Knowledga Vs Experience

One day, a very scholarly gentleman, while travelling in India, decided to go across big river, so he asked one of the village people who owned a small boat, if he would take him, to this request the boatman agreed.
As they started, the sun became obscured by dark clouds, and as the river was large, the gentleman realised that the crossing would take some time. So he started a conversation with the boatman.

"Did you know that the sun is approximately 93,000,000miles away, and yet it has provided heat and light, throughout the universe since time immemorial, baring that, if it was to shift, even a fraction of an inch out of its orbit, there would be total devastation? "

The boatman replied; "My dear sir, I am just a simple man who has had no education, there is no way I could know such information"

"Then" said the gentleman "You are 25% fool".
Some time passed, and as they were coming to the ½ way mark, the thunder began to rumble.

"Did you know notice the lightening, just before the rumbling sound". The gentleman asked. He continued. "Do you know how that phenomenon occurs"

"No sir" replied the boatman.
"Its occurrence is due to the expansion of rapidly heated air," the gentleman exclaimed, " You are 50% fool.
About ¾ of the way the weather completely changed. It became dark and started to rain heavily and started filling up the little boat with water clearly making it difficult for the boatman. But the foolish gentleman insisted in questioning.

"Do you know how we get rain",

"No sir," was the reply."
" The sun evaporates water from the sea, this gets stored in the clouds which then travel by be wind power, then when they become full, it lets all the water go, over the land. That's how we get rain."

"You are 75% fool." Said the gentleman, now feeling very smug.

The gentleman was suddenly interrupted from his basqueing by a loud cry from the boatman,

"Oh no! I have lost my oar and now the water is about capsize the boat, we have no alternative but to swim the remainder of the way, luckily for us it is not very far."
"But I can't swim," cried the gentleman now seeing his own imminent death.

"Then my dear sir, you are 100% fool" said theboatman.