The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her.
The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed.
The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and gave the rest to the girl.
The girl gave him all her sweets as she had promised.
That night, girl slept peacefully.
But the boy couldn’t sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some sweets from him the way he had hidden his best marble.
If you don’t give your hundred percent in a relationship, then you will always keep doubting if the other person has given his/her hundred percent!
This is applicable for any relationship like love, employer-employee relationship etc. Give your hundred percent to everything you do and sleep peacefully.
Once, there was this guy, who was in love with a girl.
She wasn’t the most beautiful and gorgeous but for him, she was everything. He used to dream about her, about spending the rest of life with her.
His friends told him, “why do you dream so much about her, when you don’t even know if she loves you or not? First tell her your feelings, and get to know if she likes you or not”. He felt that was the right way.
The girl knew from the beginning, that this guy loves her. One day when he proposed, she rejected him. His friends thought he would take alcohol, drugs etc and ruin his life.
To their surprise, he was not depressed.
When they asked him how was it that he is not sad, he replied, “why should I feel bad? I lost one who never loved me and she lost the one who really loved and cared for her.”
True Love is Hard to Get. Love is all about giving to other person without greed of gaining anything in return, if other person rejects it, its him/her who will be losing most important thing in life. So never feel rejected.
There is a legend about a wise man who was sitting outside his village.
A farmer insulted his neighbor.
Realizing his mistake, he went to the preacher to ask for forgiveness.
The preacher told him to take a bag of feathers and drop them in the center of town. The farmer did as he was told.
Then the preacher asked him to go and collect the feathers and put them back in the bag. The farmer tried but couldn’t as the feathers had all blown away.
When he returned with the empty bag, the preacher said, “The same thing is true about your words. You dropped them rather easily but you cannot retrieve them, so be very careful in choosing your words.”
There is a legend about a wise man who was sitting outside his village.
A traveler came up and asked him, “What kind of people live in this village, because I am looking to move from my present one?”
The wise man asked, “What kind of people lives where you want to move from?”
The man replied, “They are mean, cruel, and rude.” The wise man replied, “The same kind of people lives in this village too.”
After some time another traveler came by and asked the same question and the wise man asked him, “What kind of people live where you want to move from?”
And the traveler replied, “The people are very kind, courteous, polite and good.” The wise man said, “You will find the same kind of people here too.”
Generally we see the world not the way it is but the way we are. Most of the time, other people’s behavior is a reaction to our own.
There was a man taking a morning walk on the beach. He saw that along with the morning tide came hundreds of starfish and when the tide receded, they were left behind and with the morning sun rays they would die. The tide was fresh and the starfish were alive. The man took a few steps, picked one and threw it into the water. He did that repeatedly.
Right behind him there was another person who couldn’t understand what this man was doing. He caught up with him and asked, “What are you doing? There are hundreds of starfish. How many can you help? What difference does it make?”
This man did not reply, took two more steps, picked up another one, threw it into the water, and said, “It makes a difference to this one.”
What difference are we making? Big or small, it does not matter. If everyone made a small difference, we’d end up with a big difference, wouldn’t we?
Let’s start together doing little things that make a big difference!
