Deepa - You reduced me to tears

Very nice n touching!

A girl by name Deepa went to school in the neighbouring village where she wasn't known well.

For three weeks, she came to school late and every time the teacher punished her.

In the fourth week, Deepa didn't attend school at all and many thought she had GIVEN UP on school due to the everyday punishment.

However, Deepa reported again in fifth week and this time she came earlier than everybody.

When the teacher came to class, Deepa was punished for not attending school the previous week but the teacher was also kind enough to commend her for coming early that day, stating that the punishments had finally yielded some results.

Just then, Deepa  asked if she could say something and the teacher gave her permission.

She started :

" I've been raised up by a single mother without a brother or a sister. Five weeks ago, my mother fell ill and was hospitalized. The three weeks I came late, I had to prepare something for her every morning and pass by the hospital to deliver the same. Unfortunately, my mother passed away last week and that's the reason I didn't come to school. We buried her last Friday. Today I came early since I didn't have to prepare anything or even pass by the hospital. And now that she is gone, I will always be here early''

As she sat down, no one in the whole class was able to hold their tears, the teacher was not spared either.

Lesson -

How many times do we judge others for things we know not ?

We ask questions like :

- Why are you not getting married ?
- Why are you not having kids ?
- When will you find a job ?
- When will you buy a car ?
- When will you build a house ?
etc....

- Do we attempt to understand their situations or do we just judge from the case scenarios ?

Some situations are not relative and what we think could be very far from the truth.

Don't assume,  you know what others go through or that people move in the same pace or direction as you.

Life is far from that _

Just be kind enough to:
- love one another as God  has commanded - take time and kindly find out
        - why your friend is not phoning,
        - why your messages are not being    replied promptly,
         - why someone is missing in our       midst as a colleague, friend, brother or sister even why someone is always late.

Be kind, I have learnt a lesson.

Short Motivational Story - The Elephant Rope (Belief)

A gentleman was walking through an elephant camp, and he spotted that the elephants weren’t being kept in cages or held by the use of chains. All that was holding them back from escaping the camp, was a small piece of rope tied to one of their legs.

As the man gazed upon the elephants, he was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp. They could easily have done so, but instead, they didn’t try to at all.

Curious and wanting to know the answer, he asked a trainer nearby why the elephants were just standing there and never tried to escape.

The trainer replied;

“when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”

The only reason that the elephants weren’t breaking free and escaping from the camp was that over time they adopted the belief that it just wasn’t possible.

Moral of the story: No matter how much the world tries to hold you back, always continue with the belief that what you want to achieve is possible. Believing you can become successful is the most important step in actually achieving it.