Inspiring Story-Fruits of labour..

There once lived a rich businessman who had a lazy and 

fun loving son. The businessman wanted his son to be 

hard-working and responsible. He wanted him to realize 

the value of labour. One day he summoned his son and said: 

"Today, I want you to go out and earn something, failing 

which you won't have your meals tonight."

The boy was callous and not used to any kind of work. 

This demand by his father scared him and he went crying 

straight to his mother. Her heart melted at the sight of 

tears in her son's eyes. She grew restless. In a bid to help him 

she gave him a gold coin. In the evening when the father 

asked his son what he had earned, the son promptly presented 

him the gold coin. The father then asked him to throw it into 

a well. The son did as he was told.

The father was a man of wisdom and experience and guessed 

that the source of the gold coin was the boy's mother. The next

 day he sent his wife to her parent's town and asked his son to go 

and earn something with the threat of being denied the night meals 

if he failed. This time he went crying to his sister who sympathized 

with him and gave him a rupee coin out of her own savings. 


When his father asked him what he had earned the boy tossed 
the rupee coin  at him. The father again asked him to throw 
it in a well. The son did it quite readily. Again the father's wisdom 
told him that the rupee coin was not earned by his son. 
He then sent his daughter to her in-laws' house. He again asked 
his son to go out and earn with the threat that he shall not 
have anything for dinner that night.

This time since there was no one to help him out; the son was forced 

to go to the market in search of work. One of the shopkeepers there 

told him that he would pay him two rupees if he carried his trunk to 

his house. 


The rich man's son could not refuse and was drenched 

in sweat by the time he finished the job. His feet were trembling and 

his neck and back were aching. There were rashes on his back. 

As he returned home and produced the two rupee note before his 

father and was asked to throw it into the well, the horrified son 

almost cried out. He could not imagine throwing his hard-earned money 

like this. He said amid sobbing: "Father! My entire body is aching. 

My back has rashes and you are asking me to throw the money into the well."

At this the businessman smiled. He told him that one feels the pain only 

when the fruits of hard labour are wasted. On earlier two occasions 

he was helped by his mother and sister and therefore had no pain 

in throwing the coins into the well. 


The son had now realized the  value of hard work. 
He vowed never to be lazy and safe keep 

the father's wealth. The father handed over the keys of his shop 

to the son and promised to guide him through the rest of the life.

Moral of the Story: 


Some of the life's best lessons come from 

the hardest situations.

Pay Attention to The Source of Problem

One fine day, a bus driver went to the bus garage, started 

his bus and drove off along the route. No problems for the 

first few stops, a few people got on, a few got off and 

things went generally well.

At the next stop, however, a big hulk of a guy got on. 

Six feet eight, built like a wrestler, arms hanging down to 

the ground. He glared at the driver and said, "Big John 

doesn't pay!" and sat down at the back.

The driver was five feet three, thin and basically meek... 

Naturally, he did not argue with Big John, but he was not 

happy about it.

The next day the same thing happened - Big John got on 

again, said "Big John doesn't pay!" and sat down. And 

the next day and the one after that and so forth.

This irritated the bus driver, who started losing sleep 

over the way Big John was taking advantage of his size. 

Finally he could stand it no longer. He signed up for 

body building program, Karate, Judo and all that good stuff.

By the end of the summer, he had become quite strong; 

So on the next Monday, when Big John got on the bus and 

said, "Big John doesn't pay!" the driver stood up, glared 

back and screamed, "And why not?"

With a surprised look on his face, Big John replied, 

"Big John has a Bus pass."

Moral of the story: First be sure and pay more attention 

to source of problems before working hard to solve one.

Inspiring Story:Most Beautiful Heart

One day a young man was standing in the middle 

of the town proclaiming that he had the most 

beautiful heart in the whole valley.

A large crowd gathered and they all admired 

his heart for it was perfect.

There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, 

they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart 

they had ever seen. The young man was very proud 

and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd 

and said, "Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful 

as mine."The crowd and the young man looked at the old 

man's heart. It was beating strongly ... but full of scars. 

It had places where pieces had been removed and 

other pieces put in ... but they didn't fit quite right and 

there were several jagged edges.

In fact, in some places there were deep gouges 

where whole pieces were missing. The people starred ... 

how could he say his heart is more beautiful, 

they thought?

The young man looked at the old man's heart and 

saw its state and laughed. "You must be joking," he said. 

"Compare your heart with mine ... mine is perfect and 

yours is a mess of scars and tears."

"Yes," said the old man, "Yours is perfect looking ... 

but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar 

represents a person to whom I have given my love.. 

I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them. 

and often they give me a piece of their heart

which fits into the empty place in my heart ... 

but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some 

rough edges, which I cherish, 

because they remind me of the love we shared.

Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away ... 

and the other person hasn't returned a piece of 

his heart to me. These are the empty gouges ... 

giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges 

are painful, they stay open, reminding me 

of the love I have for these people too ... 

and I hope someday they may return and 

fill the space I have waiting. So now 

do you see what true beauty is?"

The young man stood silently with tears running 

down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, 

reached into his perfect young and 

beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. 

He offered it to the old man with trembling hands.

The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart 

and then took a piece from his old scarred heart 

and placed it in the wound in the young man's heart.

It fit .... but not perfectly, as there were some 

jagged edges. The young man looked at his heart, 

not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, 

since love from the old man's heart flowed into his.

They embraced and walked away side by side.