Everything Happens for a Reason !

Welcome to 38^th Monday Musings:

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There was once a King who had a wise advisor. The advisor followed the King everywhere, and his favorite advice was, "Everything happens for the good".

One day the King went hunting and had a little accident.  He shot an arrow at his own foot and was injured.

He asked the advisor what he thought about the accident, to which the advisor replied, Everything happens for the good.

This time the King was really upset and ordered for his advisor to be put in prison.  The King asked his advisor,  Now, what do you think?

The advisor again replied, "Everything happens for the good".

So the advisor remained in prison.

The King later went on a hunting trip, this time without the advisor.

The King was then captured by some cannibals. He was taken to the cannibals' camp  where he was to be the evening meal for the cannibals.

Before putting him into the cooking pot he was thoroughly inspected. The cannibals saw the wound on the King’s foot and decided to throw him back into the jungle.

According to the cannibals' tradition, they would not eat anything that was imperfect.

As a result the King was spared. The King suddenly realized what his advisor said was true.

 The advisor also escaped death because had he not been in prison, he would have followed  the King on the hunting trip, and would have ended up in the cooking pot.

Moral of the story :

It is true that everything in life happens for a purpose, and always for our own good. If you think about it, all our past experiences actually happened to bring us to where we are today, and it is always for the good. All the past experiences makes us a better person. So, whatever challenges that we may face today,

consider it happening to bring us to the next level.

Everything happens for a reason. And when fate happens look for the good in it as it is there.

Make it a great Week !

Shailesh

Silence is Golden !

Welcome to 37^th Monday Musings:

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In a jungle, there lived a large group of monkeys, always self sure, opinionated and arrogant.

The coldest climate arrived and the monkeys were shivering like leaves.. Even mutual hugs and embracing one another tight against their own wishes was of no avail. The cold was eating into their marrows and they were miserable. They had seen some men often sitting huddled together around a wooden fire and getting relief from cold .

The monkeys knew that fire meant brightness. They had also seen that the men blew air through their mouths to light back a dwindling fire; So they decided that lighting a fire would bring an end to their sufferings.

 An enthusiastic and young monkey had seen glowworms moving around in the night with their bright abdomens.

He decided that using such a glowworm, they could light a campfire. With a lot of difficulty the group gathered some timber pieces and the youth sat in front of the heap of timber with a glowworm in hand and stated blowing at it in the hope that a fire will be made soon.

An old and wizened monkey was watching the foolery with amusement. He knew the glowworm had nothing to do with fire. But he kept quiet, because he was sure his advice would fall only on deaf ears.

A tiny bird with needle shaped beak, was watching this fire-exercise. She fluttered around the young monkey making noises to warn him that the glowworm will not give any fire .

Please note, it was none of her business to give advice.

First the monkey ignored her and went on with his meticulous blowing of the worm. But in time, the youngster go irritated in rage, he caught the bird and threw her hard on a rough rock and killed her.

The old monkey was muttering to himself.. “ I knew it all the while, but I kept quite. So I am alive. That brat of a bird wisecracked and was smashed to death..”

Moral of the story :

Sometimes Silence is golden, especially when the alternative is to talk to cruel idiots.

Make it a great Week !

Shailesh

Helen Keller:A Great Heroine

Welcome to 36^th Monday Musings:

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Before you start reading this story, just to let you know that It is a true story.  If you think you life is tough,  think twice, this story will open your eyes . This story inspires me most. This is a story about Helen Keller.

(Helen Keller at Radcliffe College)

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do, that’s how she would have described herself in one of her quotes

Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute. Just imagine a life of person, where one cannot see, hear or talk.

Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind

But just think what memory of world and its object a child of 1 and half year old child will remember throughout her life (None I guess)

Her teacher Ann Sullivan had to take her to a river and put her feet in running water and later, after taking her home, she had to pour a number of buckets of water over her head to make her feel “the thing”. Then she write “WATER” in Braille system in her palm

Just to learn one word she had to struggle so much.

Helen was a genius in a lockup, she struggled but still she mastered thousand of words and wrote several books and travelled all over world inspiring the blind.

At the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities

Despite her disabilities, Helen dared herself to take up a lot of adventures such as horse riding, cycling, swimming and even camping that any other able bodied person would take up. She expressed controversial political thoughts in her essays, went up to the vaudeville stage to demonstrate her first understanding of the word ‘water’ and answer questions fielded by the audience on her struggles, with Anne acting as her interpreter.

Some of her achievements :

·         Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles.

·         Keller’s first writing was at the age of 11, The frost King (1891)

·         Keller appeared in a silent film, Deliverance (1919), which told her story in a melodramatic, allegorical style

·         In 1999, Keller was listed in Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.

·         In 2003, Alabama honored its native daughter on its state quarter

·         The Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama is dedicated to her

·         A preschool for the deaf and hard of hearing in Mysore, India, was originally named after Helen Keller by its founder K. K. Srinivasan.

·         On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection

·         List goes on………….

Moral of the story :

The story itself is full of inspiration, we must not complain about life, rather we should be thankful to GOD for whatever given to us.

We should never give up and  give our best to life

• Life is either a Daring Adventure or Nothing ~ Helen Keller

• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood ~ Helen Keller

Make it a great Week !

Shailesh

Making All The Difference !

Welcome to 35^th Monday Musings:

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nce upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.

One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up.

As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young boy, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.

He came closer still and called out: "Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?"

The youth paused, looked up, and replied, "Throwing starfish into the ocean."

"I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" asked the somewhat startled wise man.

To this, the boy replied, "The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die."

Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, "But, son, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!"

At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, "I made all the difference to that one."

Moral of the story :

We must not wait to do the right things, every counting starts with one.

We must become the change we want to see in the world, if we want rock to be moved, we must push the rock, sometimes a little push in right direction can make the big difference.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. ~ Helen Keller (1880-1968)  [Monday Musings: Episode 36]

Make it a great Week !

Shailesh