Posted by
Hardik Patel in
Forwards,
General on
04 13th, 2009 |
one response 
Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful daughter. So he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the farmer’s debt if he could marry his daughter. Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified by the proposal. So the cunning money-lender suggested that they let providence decide the matter.
He told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty money bag. Then the girl would have to pick one pebble from the bag. If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife and her father’s debt would be forgiven. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail.
They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the farmer’s field. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick a pebble from the bag.
Now, imagine you were standing in the field. What would you have done if you were the girl? If you had to advise her, what would you have told her?
Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:
1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble.
2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag and expose the money-lender as a cheat.
3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order to save her father from his debt and imprisonment.
Take a moment to ponder over the story. The above story is used with the hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral and logical thinking. The girl’s dilemma cannot be solved with traditional logical thinking. Think of the consequences if she chooses the above logical answers.
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What would you recommend to the Girl to do?
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The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.
“Oh, how clumsy of me,” she said. “But never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked.”
Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had picked the white one. And since the money-lender dared not admit his dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Most complex problems do have a solution. It is only that we don’t attempt to think in that direction.
Posted by
Hardik Patel in
Good Sayings on
02 2nd, 2009 |
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and
persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual
affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment,
it will not be created for years or even generations.
Khalil Gibran
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it,
but few have seen it.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who
receive it.
Dr. Karl Menninger
My favourite:
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking
outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing;
a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.”
Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”
Erich Fromm
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life;
love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
There is only one kind of love,
but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup,
whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Men always want to be a woman’s first love,
women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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Posted by
Hardik Patel in
Inspirational on
01 13th, 2009 |
no responses Forgiving Mistakes of the Past
A man should never be ashamed to own he
has been in the wrong which is but saying…
That he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope~
The past is gone.
But it is a piece of the experience that
defines who we are today.
All fear stress and regret come from the past.
We can be free of them entirely by
choosing to live in this moment.
In this moment life is simpler mistakes are
less devastating work is more productive and
relationships are more rewarding and intimate.
Our talents and passions thrive.
The world looks different.
As tempting as it may be to fantasize the
what ifs of the past those experiences are only
helpful to us as we live in this moment.
The mistakes of the past are a source of wisdom and
insight as long as we choose to bring those things
to the present and leave regret behind.
Mistakes are a part of the process that every one
of us has to experience to learn and grow.
To forgive the past is to invite hope, peace,
innocence and freedom without limitations
• Don’t expect anything from life, expectations hurt. When u don’t expect, every moment is a surprise & surprise brings happiness with it
