Thought of the Day #60 | Of The Day

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. 

Then I ask myself the same question.

Story of the Day #13 | Of The Day

The Proud Rose🌹

      One beautiful spring day🌅, a red rose🌷 bloomed in a forest. Many kinds of trees 🎋and plants grew there. As the rose looked around, a pine🍍 tree nearby said, “What a beautiful flower. I wish I was that lovely.” Another tree said, “Dear pine, do not be sad, we cannot have everything.”

-The rose turned its head and remarked, “It seems that I am the most beautiful plant in this forest.”

-A sunflower🌻 raised its yellow head and asked, “Why do you say that? In this forest there are many beautiful plants. You are just one of them.”

-The red rose replied, “I see everyone looking at me and admiring me.” Then the rose looked at a cactus🌵 nearby and said, “Look at that ugly plant full of thorns!”

-The pine tree said, “Red rose, what kind of talk is this? Who can say what beauty is? You have thorns too.”

      The proud red rose looked angrily at the pine and said, “I thought you had good taste! You do not know what beauty is at all. You cannot compare my thorns to that of the cactus.”

“What a proud flower”, thought the trees.

      The rose tried to move its roots away from the cactus, but it could not move. As the days passed, the red rose would look at the cactus and say insulting things, like “you are useless! How sorry I am to be your neighbor”…

      The cactus never got upset😩 and he even tried to advise the rose, saying, “God did not create any form of life without a purpose.”

      Spring passed, and the weather became very warm. Life❤ became difficult in the forest, as the plants and animals needed water🌊 and no rain fell. The red rose began to wilt. One day the rose saw sparrows stick their beaks into the cactus and then fly away, refreshed. This was puzzling, and the red rose asked the pine tree what the birds were doing. The pine tree explained that the birds got water from the cactus. “Does it not hurt when they make holes?” asked the rose.

“Yes, but the cactus does not like to see any birds suffer,” replied the pine.

The rose opened its eyes👀 in wonder and said, “The cactus has water?”

“Yes you can also drink from it. The sparrow can bring water to you if you ask the cactus for help.”

      The red rose felt too ashamed of its past words and behavior to ask for water from the cactus, but then it finally did ask the cactus for help. The cactus kindly agreed and the birds filled their beaks with water and watered the rose’s roots. Thus the rose learnt a lesson and never judged anyone by their appearance again!

Never judge anyone by their appearance.

Appearances are deceptive.

We can know a person only by their actions and not by their looks. 

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Thought of the Day #59 | Of The Day

When the past calls, let it go to voice mail. It has nothing new to say.

Story of the Day #12 | Of The Day

I am because, we are!

The motivation behind name given to Ubuntu Operating System.

      An Anthropologist proposed one game to the African🗺 tribal children. He placed a basket of sweets and Candy's near a tree🌳. And made them stand 100 meters away. And announced that whoever reaches first would get all the sweets in the basket. When he said ready steady go... 

      Do you know what these small children did? They all held each other's hands👬 and ran towards the tree together, divided the sweets among them and ate the sweets and enjoyed it. When the Anthropologist asked them why you did so? They said 'Ubuntu'.

Which meant - 'How can one be happy when all the others are sad?'

Ubuntu in their language means - 'I am because, we are!'

      A message for all generations. Let all of us always carry this attitude within us and spread happiness, wherever we go... 

Let's have a Ubuntu Life... I am because we are..!!

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Thought of the Day #58 | Of The Day

Silence isn't empty. It's full of answers.

Story of the Day #11 | Of The Day

Value of Life💙

      A man👨 went to a Guru and asked, "What's the value of life?💛". The Guru gave him a stone💎 and said, "Find out the value of this stone, but don't sell it."

      The man took the stone to an Orange Seller and asked him what its cost would be. The Orange Seller saw the shiny stone and said, "You can take 12 oranges and give me the stone." The man apologized and said that the guru has asked him not to sell it.

      He went ahead and found a vegetable seller. "What could be the value of this stone?" he asked the vegetable seller. The seller saw the shiny stone and said, "Take one sack of potatoes and give me the stone." The man again apologized and said he can't sell it.

      Further ahead, he went into a jewelry shop and asked the value of the stone. The jeweler saw the stone under a lens🔎 and said, "I'll give you 50 Lakhs💰 for this stone. “When the man shook his head, the jeweler said, "Alright, alright, take 2 crores, but give me the stone." The man explained that he can't sell the stone.

      Further ahead, the man saw a precious stone's shop and asked the seller the value of this stone. When the precious stone's seller saw the big ruby, he lay down a red cloth and put the ruby on it. Then he walked in circles around the ruby and bent down and touched his head in front of the ruby. "From where did you bring this priceless ruby from?" he asked. "Even if I sell all my things and my life, I won't be able to purchase this priceless stone.

      Stunned and confused, the man returned to the guru and told him what had happened. "Now tell me what is the value of life, guruji?" Guru said, "The answers you got from the Orange Seller, the Vegetable Seller, the Jeweler & the Precious Stone's Seller explain the value of our life... 

      You may be a precious stone, even priceless, but people will value you based on their financial status, their level of information, their belief in you, their motive behind entertaining you, their ambition, and their risk taking ability. But don't fear, you will surely find someone who will discern your true value." Respect yourself. You are Unique. No one can Replace you!

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Thought of the Day #57 | Of The Day

Be BRAVE. Even if you're not, pretend to be.

Story of the Day #10 | Of The Day

Who is Rich

      A wealthy woman👩 goes to a saree store and tells the boy at the counter "Bhaiya show some cheap sarees. It is my son's marriage and I have to give to my maid." After sometime, the maid comes to the saree shop and tells the boy at the counter "Bhaiya show some expensive sarees. I want to gift my Mistress on her son's marriage". Poverty is in the mind or in the purse?

      Once, a lady with her family👪 was staying in a 3-star hotel for a picnic. She was the mother of a 6 month old baby. 

"Can I get 1 cup of milk?🥛" asked the lady to the 3-star hotel manager. 

"Yes madam", he replied. 

"But it will cost 100 bucks💸". "No problem", said the lady. 

While driving back from hotel, the child was hungry again. They stopped at a road side tea stall and took milk from the tea vendor. 

"How much?” she asked the tea vendor. 

"Madam, we don't charge money for kid's milk", the old man said with a smile. 

"Let me know if you need more for the journey". The lady took one more cup and left. 

She wondered, "Who’s richer? The hotel manager or the old tea vendor? Sometimes, in the race for more money, we forget that we are all humans. Let's help someone in need, without expecting something in return. It will make us feel better than what money can. 

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