An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son.
Suddenly a crow perched on their window.
The Father asked his Son, "What is this?"
The Son replied "It is a crow".
After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, "What is this?"
The Son said "Father, I have just now told you "It's a crow".
After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time, What is this?"
At this time some ex-pression of irritation was felt in the Son's tone when he said to his Father with a rebuff. "It's a crow, a crow"
A little after, the Father again asked his Son the 4th time, "What is this?"
This time the Son shouted at his Father, "Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times 'IT
IS A CROW'. Are you not able to understand this?"
A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary
"Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child".
While the little child asked him 23 times "What is this", the Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times and when today the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed.
If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, obedient, humble and kind to them. Be considerate to your parents.
From today say this aloud,
"I want to see my parents Happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered their selfless love on me.
They crossed all mountains and valleys without seeing the storm and heat to make me a person presentable in the society today".
Say a prayer to God "I will serve my old parents in the BEST way. I will say all good and kind words to my dear parents, no matter how they behave
There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity.
Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:
1) He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late !
2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.
3) He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town
His house does not have a wall or a fence.
4) He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.
5) He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company.
6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.
7) He has given his CEO's only two rules.
Rule number 1: do not lose any of your share holder's money.
Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.
8) He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.
9) Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.
10) Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.
11) His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself.
| EASY | DIFFICULT |
| Easy is to judge the mistakes of others | Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes |
| Easy is to talk without thinking | Difficult is to refrain the tongue |
| Easy is to hurt someone who loves us. | Difficult is to heal the wound... |
| Easy is to forgive others | Difficult is to ask for forgiveness |
| Easy is to set rules. | Difficult is to follow them... |
| Easy is to dream every night. | Difficult is to fight for a dream... |
| Easy is to show victory. | Difficult is to assume defeat with dignity... |
| Easy is to admire a full moon. | Difficult to see the other side... |
| Easy is to stumble with a stone. | Difficult is to get up... |
| Easy is to enjoy life every day. | Difficult to give its real value... |
| Easy is to promise something to someone. | Difficult is to fulfill that promise... |
| Easy is to say we love. | Difficult is to show it every day... |
| Easy is to criticize others. | Difficult is to improve oneself... |
| Easy is to make mistakes. | Difficult is to learn from them... |
| Easy is to weep for a lost love. | Difficult is to take care of it so not to lose it. |
| Easy is to think about improving. | Difficult is to stop thinking it and put it into action... |
| Easy is to think bad of others | Difficult is to give them the benefit of the doubt... |
| Easy is to receive | Difficult is to give |
| Easy to read this | Difficult to follow |
| Easy is keep the friendship with words | Difficult is to keep it with meanings
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