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“Our life has become too fast and everyone wants to achieve the maximum in the least possible time available with him……….!”. This was being explained by a professor to his morning walk friends who were complaining of feeling stressed and depressed from many days.
As his friends were not looking convinced by his verbal explanation, the professor decided to teach them his theory with a demonstration. And next day he met them all in the morning with some common articles in his hands.
The professor first of all placed a Jar and few tennis balls on the bench lying outside the tea shop situated within the park. And then he started filling the jar with all the balls till it was full of them and had no place left for any more. Looking at the jar, he asked his friends, “Is the jar full now?” Everybody said, “Yes”.
But the professor said “No” and then started putting some small stones inside the jar, shaking it a little. The stones quickly took the place lying between the balls and filled the jar. Now he asked them again, “Is the jar full now?” Everybody again said, “Yes”.
But the professor once again said “No” and then started pouring some sand into the jar, out of a small pouch he had brought along. The sand also made its way in the space available in between the balls and stones and further filled the jar a little more. Now looking at his friends, professor asked, “I think now it is full.” They all collectively answered “Yes, surely”.
But the professor wasn’t satisfied and he quickly ordered two cups of tea from the tea-seller. On getting the cups he started pouring the tea too into the jar which also started floating along everything inside the jar and made its own place.
And then Professor started smiling, looking towards the faces of all his friends staring the jar in a strange manner and explained:
“Dear Friends, Just think of this Jar as your own life and Tennis balls as the most important elements of your life like your family, children, friends, health, your passions and your worshipped GOD.
Consider the small stones as your job, car, big house and other secondary things of life and.............Sand as even smaller matters such as your many avoidable conflicts, disputes and fights.
Now if you had filled the Jar with the Sand first then there had been no place for the Tennis Balls or Small Stones in it. Or if you had filled the Jar with the small stones first, then again Tennis Balls would have remained outside, however sand surely could have been added along with the stones.
The same formula is applicable in your real life too. If you keep stressing upon the small un-necessary things around yourself then you are sure going to miss the bigger and more important elements of life within your limited allotted time.
Now for your own good and peace, it simply depends upon yourself that how you want to fill your own Jar of Life with creativity. Play with your kids, go on long walks with your beloved, throw away the wastes lying in your store-rooms, pursue your hidden hobbies or passions, learn a musical instrument, play some game you love and just feel happy with gratitude towards your GOD and existence.
In short, do worry about the Big Tennis Balls in your life first and then the rest will automatically take care of itself. As rest everything is just like the sand which can easily adjust with all the other things in your jar.”
Everyone listening to the professor was stunned and felling calm in that fine morning in the park. Suddenly one of them asked “But what about those two cups of tea you poured in that Jar……You didn’t explain their significance to us.”
The professor smiled and answered, ”Those two cups of tea teach us that whatsoever kind of busy life we may be living around, one should always take some time out to have a cup of tea with his dear old friends and just enjoy”.
To this everyone laughed out loud and just hugged each other and started walking again.
(I hope my readers find this small story an enlightening one, which very beautifully teaches us to have a new vision in our attitude towards our gifted lives.)
(Contributed by Mr.Bharat in Hindi through mail. Translated by Bobby Sing)
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Bollywood movie lovers living all over the world are well familiar with “Amar Akbar Anthony”, one of the most famous movies of both Amitabh Bachchan and director Manmohan Desai. Along with its brilliant comic sequences featuring Amitabh and Rishi Kapoor, the movie had Vinod Khanna completing the trilogy in a tough role standing against his biggest competitor of that time, Amitabh Bachchan.
But apart from these many renowned merits, the film also had a rare and amusing fact associated with its melodious music which probably remains the only example in the history of Hindi Film music wherein the four most respected stalwarts of our Indian Cinema performed together in a song for the entire lead star-cast.
The song was “Humko Tumse Ho Gaya Hai Pyar Kya Karein” in which Mohd. Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar all sang together probably for the first and last time.
Mohd. Rafi sang for Rishi Kapoor, Kishore Kumar for Amitabh Bachchan, Mukesh for Vinod Khanna and Lata Mangeshkar for all the three female actresses, Shabana Azmi, Neetu Singh and Parveen Babi.
Moreover this particular song of the movie also stands out of the entire soundtrack as in it the composer Laxmikant Pyarelal very insightfully incorporated the essence of Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities in an unique and intelligent way. Just listen to the western arrangements in the start of the song with all the strings and a choir singing in the interlude generating an Anthony kind of impact. Then in the middle, the use of Duff, giving it an ethnic kind of traditional feel representing Amar. And later on the insertion of Qawwali beats with the group claps to suit the character of the naughty Akbar. Simply an outstanding achievement by the director, music directors, singers, choreographers and all the actors involved in the song.
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This is an inspiring story reminding every one of us about the last work we had done in our professional lives before moving on to a new phase of our career. To be more specific it reminds us about the last assignment we did for a company before moving on to a better one or the last work we finished just before going on to a holiday leave or the last projects completed by a person in his career before retiring altogether.
Normally what majority of people do in all the above cases is that they just rush up the work in hands at a brisk speed and try to finish it up in a way which is much inferior, compared to their own set quality standards. And this story makes us remember all those poor projects which unintentionally may have got affected due to this short sightedness of human nature we all possess.
So here it is :
A famous elderly carpenter,known for his skill of making beautiful houses, was ready to retire. So he told his employer-contractor of his plan to leave the house-building business in order to live a more leisurely life with his wife and extended family. He really wanted to spend his last days along with his grand children and all the family members together.
The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go but politely asked that if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but over the time of building that last house, it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials leading to a below par kind of work without any of his famous finishing touches. And it was indeed an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career like this.
When the carpenter finished his work, his employer came to inspect the house. He calmly visited every corner of the house and then with a smile handed over the main key of the house to the carpenter and said "This is your house.............my gift to you for all your services for me in the last decades”.
The carpenter was shocked !
What a shame! And What a Loss! The carpenter simply felt like losing all the reputation he had built in his entire career of a fine craft man. Had he known the real secret then he would have really done it all so differently and beautifully……..but now he had missed the bus. Only because he was retiring from his job after this, he had not put his whole body and soul in building the house, which came back to him as a good teaching slap from the existence.
And then the carpenter died with this only regret of not completing his last house, his own house in style. The regret, which could have been easily avoided by just finishing off the work with his total love and devotion as he always used to do it.
But, one cannot go back and we need to learn our lessons from such stories. We are our own carpenters in life and every small or big work done by us should have all our body, mind and soul put in it to the maximum.
That’s the way of enjoying your work and that’s how we would be able to enjoy every surprise gift of the existence without any guilt or regret.
Therefore make your choices carefully and BUILD YOUR HOUSE WISELY!
It’s time to Think!
(Story Contributed by Mr. Rafiq Javaed, Edited by Bobby Sing)
Thanks Rafiq Javaed for sharing it with us!
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Here is a great inspirational story for all friends, giving us a valuable lesson of life in an amusing way. Hope it makes us live our lives more consciously.
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids running between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared.
Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door!
He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting,
'What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money.. Why did you do it?'
The young boy was apologetic.
'Please, mister.....please, I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to do,' He pleaded. 'I threw the brick because no one else would stop...'
With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car.
'It's my brother, 'he said 'He just rolled off somehow and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up.'
Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, 'Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me..'
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat.. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out his handkerchief and wiped his fresh scratches and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay.
'Thank you and may God bless you,' the grateful child told the stranger.
Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy pushing his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair his Jaguar’s dented side door.
He kept the dent there to remind him of this message:
'Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!'
God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. And then it's our choice to listen or not.
Hence let’s try to live our lives in such a way that next time he doesn’t have to throw another Brick on us.
Think!
(Contributed by a friend)
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“Dear Friends,
It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair his Jaguar’s dented side door.