If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Monday, March 22, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Life is beautiful....
A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco.
"Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring home with me. "Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him."
"There's something you should know," the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."
"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."
"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us." "Son," said the father,
"you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own."
At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide. The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son.
They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know, their son had only one arm and one leg. The parents in this story are like many of us.
We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we don't like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who aren't as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are.
When we say no for others, often we don’t know whom we are saying no, and the consequences of that. People say life is not fair, but all my life the one important lesson I learnt from my own experience and from looking at others life, “ life is fair, Life treats you the same way as you treat others life”. But biggest problem with life is it disguises a lot. It gives blessings wrapped in problems and problems wrapped in happiness. Another fact of life is it won’t let you alone in problem, it sends guide in terms of friends. I remember the first class of our “management communication module”, professor said one thing; “Make your friends before you need them”.
When somebody asks for friendship, biggest mistake you can do is saying no. Accepted, it takes time to become good friends, but we should not forget that we are not making friends, life is sending them to us, Either you may require them at some point of time or they may require you, when you say no, either you are loosing a chance to be with a person when he needs you or you would be alone in times of problem. Never know what the future is. Never take too long to make friends. When people enter your life, allow them to enter because there is a reason for it. Have faith that they are not going to screw you up, and your faith will stop them from screwing up. If you dint allowed them to become your friends, today you may have many very good friends, but when the time comes, you will be requiring that exact person whom you said no. You may not even find them when you need them, because they might have been destroyed because you dint helped them. Friends come and go in your life, no one will be there forever. And one or two friends are not sufficient in life. Just like you require different resource to do a work, you need many friends to deal with life.
Bottom line is never say no to friendship, because life is fair and it is sending an angel to support you for the problem which you are going to face in your life. Believe in life, whatever happens, happens for good. Don’t try to control your life, let it go, then you will see how beautiful life is…….
Think over it……
"Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring home with me. "Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him."
"There's something you should know," the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."
"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."
"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us." "Son," said the father,
"you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own."
At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide. The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son.
They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know, their son had only one arm and one leg. The parents in this story are like many of us.
We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we don't like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who aren't as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are.
When we say no for others, often we don’t know whom we are saying no, and the consequences of that. People say life is not fair, but all my life the one important lesson I learnt from my own experience and from looking at others life, “ life is fair, Life treats you the same way as you treat others life”. But biggest problem with life is it disguises a lot. It gives blessings wrapped in problems and problems wrapped in happiness. Another fact of life is it won’t let you alone in problem, it sends guide in terms of friends. I remember the first class of our “management communication module”, professor said one thing; “Make your friends before you need them”.
When somebody asks for friendship, biggest mistake you can do is saying no. Accepted, it takes time to become good friends, but we should not forget that we are not making friends, life is sending them to us, Either you may require them at some point of time or they may require you, when you say no, either you are loosing a chance to be with a person when he needs you or you would be alone in times of problem. Never know what the future is. Never take too long to make friends. When people enter your life, allow them to enter because there is a reason for it. Have faith that they are not going to screw you up, and your faith will stop them from screwing up. If you dint allowed them to become your friends, today you may have many very good friends, but when the time comes, you will be requiring that exact person whom you said no. You may not even find them when you need them, because they might have been destroyed because you dint helped them. Friends come and go in your life, no one will be there forever. And one or two friends are not sufficient in life. Just like you require different resource to do a work, you need many friends to deal with life.
Bottom line is never say no to friendship, because life is fair and it is sending an angel to support you for the problem which you are going to face in your life. Believe in life, whatever happens, happens for good. Don’t try to control your life, let it go, then you will see how beautiful life is…….
Think over it……
Team work!!!
In a team when we work, we crib when the other is not working, when the things are not moving, we blame others for not putting effort. Whenever it’s a team work, we look for others involvement. Yes team work is all working together, but most of the time what we miss is its just a psychological satisfaction that others in the team are working as hard as we are. We are all get too focused with doing the work rather than getting it done. This is what is called management by objective. Some time back while I was surfing in the net, I found this story; interesting one, go through it…
A man was lost while driving through the country. As he tried to reach for the map, he accidentally drove off the road into a ditch. Though he wasn’t injured, his car was stuck deep into the mud. So the man walked to a nearby farm to ask for help.
“Warwick can get you out of that ditch,” said the farmer, pointing to an old mule standing in a field. The man looked at the decrepit old mule and looked at the farmer who just stood there repeating, “Yep, old Warwick can do the job.” the man figured he had nothing to lose. The two men and the mule made their way back to the ditch. The farmer hitched the mule to the car. With a snap of the reins, he shouted,
“Pull, Fred! Pull, Jack! Pull, Ted! Pull Warwick!”
And the mule pulled that car right out of the ditch.
The man was amazed. He thanked the farmer, patted the mule, and asked, “Why did you call all of those names before you called Warwick?”
The farmer grinned and said, “Old Warwick is just about blind. As long as he believes he’s part of a team, he doesn’t mind pulling.”
A man was lost while driving through the country. As he tried to reach for the map, he accidentally drove off the road into a ditch. Though he wasn’t injured, his car was stuck deep into the mud. So the man walked to a nearby farm to ask for help.
“Warwick can get you out of that ditch,” said the farmer, pointing to an old mule standing in a field. The man looked at the decrepit old mule and looked at the farmer who just stood there repeating, “Yep, old Warwick can do the job.” the man figured he had nothing to lose. The two men and the mule made their way back to the ditch. The farmer hitched the mule to the car. With a snap of the reins, he shouted,
“Pull, Fred! Pull, Jack! Pull, Ted! Pull Warwick!”
And the mule pulled that car right out of the ditch.
The man was amazed. He thanked the farmer, patted the mule, and asked, “Why did you call all of those names before you called Warwick?”
The farmer grinned and said, “Old Warwick is just about blind. As long as he believes he’s part of a team, he doesn’t mind pulling.”
Friday, March 5, 2010
Indian Brain . . ..
This is not a story but a true incident that happened in USA.*An Indian man walked into a bank in New York City one day and asked for the loan officer.
He told the loan officer that he was going to Indiaon business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000.
The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan. The Indian man handed over the keys to a new Ferrari parked on the street in front of the
bank. He produced the title and everything checked out.
The loan officer agreed to accept the car as collateral for the loan.
The bank's president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the Indian for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank's underground garage and parked it there.
Two weeks later, the Indian returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest, which came to $15.41.
The loan officer said, "Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked
you out and found that you are a multi millionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow"$5,000"
The Indian replied: "Where else in New York Citycan I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return'"
Ah, the brain of the Indian... This is why India is shining . ....!
He told the loan officer that he was going to Indiaon business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000.
The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan. The Indian man handed over the keys to a new Ferrari parked on the street in front of the
bank. He produced the title and everything checked out.
The loan officer agreed to accept the car as collateral for the loan.
The bank's president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the Indian for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank's underground garage and parked it there.
Two weeks later, the Indian returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest, which came to $15.41.
The loan officer said, "Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked
you out and found that you are a multi millionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow"$5,000"
The Indian replied: "Where else in New York Citycan I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return'"
Ah, the brain of the Indian... This is why India is shining . ....!
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