一個瞎眼的男孩坐在一棟樓房的台階上,
他的腳邊擱著一頂帽子,裡面放了幾個銅板。
而在他旁邊立了一塊牌子寫著:“我是瞎子,請幫助我。”
一位先生走過這裡,從口袋裡掏出幾個硬幣扔到帽子裡。
接著,他拿起了牌子,翻轉過來,寫了幾個字在上面,
之後再放了回去,以便路過的人都能看見他新寫的字。
很快的,帽子裡的錢就滿了,因為有很多人往帽子裡放錢。
那天下午,寫字的那位先生回來看一看情況如何。
男孩從他的腳步聲聽出來是他,便問:
「你是那位今天早晨改我牌子的那位先生嗎?你都寫了什麼呢?」
先生回答說:「我只是寫了事實。我從另一個角度重寫了你的話。」
他是這樣寫的:“今天真是個好日子,但我卻看不見”。
你覺得這牌子的兩面說的是同一件事嗎?
當然,牌子的兩面都是告訴人們男孩兒是個瞎子。但第一面僅僅說了男孩兒是瞎子。第二面則告訴人們他們能看見是多麼幸運的事啊。如此看來,你我會因為第二面寫的更起到作用而驚奇嗎?
故事的啟示:
感謝你所擁有的吧。做一個有創意的人。要從多角度和積極面去思考事情。
用智慧的言語同邀別人行善。遇到難處不怨天尤人。要愛無索求。即使生活讓你有一百個理由哭泣,也要向生活展示你有一千個理由笑對人生。不對以往心懷遺憾。要滿腔豪氣地面對今朝。無畏地面對將來的一切。拋棄憂鬱,持守信心。
偉人們說過:“生活就是不斷修改重建,棄惡揚善的過程。…如果你願你的生命之旅毫無疑懼,你就必須擁有問心無愧的車票。”
A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: ‘I am blind, please help.’ There were only a few coins in the hat.
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, ‘Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?’
The man said, ‘I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.’
What he had written was: ‘Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.’
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?
Moral of the Story:
Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively.
Invite others towards good with wisdom. Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear.
Great men say, ‘Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness… In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of a good conscience.’
The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling…
And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!!!