Respect Your Parents

Respect Your Parents

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 expression 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. So..

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.

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Read the story and let it change your thinking about life!

It Will Take Just 1 Minute to Read this Story, But It Will Change Your Thinking!

Sometimes life can be tough, and it is easy to focus on the

 negative. However, those who are true to the positive and joys

of life will see this story for what it really is — The true way we

 should view life and all its wonders.

Read the story below and let it change your thinking about life!

Two men are seriously ill and in the same hospital room. For an hour each day, the nurses would let the man closest to the room’s only window sit up in order to help drain the fluid in his lungs.

The other man in the room spent all his time flat on his back.

As you can imagine, with little else to do, the men would talk for hours. They spoke about their families, homes, their lives in the military and where they had traveled.

And each day, the man sitting away from the window longed for the hour when his roommate would be able to sit up and describe the details of the world outside their room.

He would speak of children playing, of animals peacefully roaming and of happy families playing in the water.

Sadly, after months of this, the day arrived when the man closest to the window died in his sleep. After his body had been removed from the room and some time had passed, the other man asked if he could take the bed by the window. The nurses were happy to oblige him and they made the switch.

Once they were gone, the man slowly and painfully pulled himself up so he could take his first good look at the world outside the hospital room, the world whose description had brought him so much comfort.

To his dismay, he found that the view was not as vibrant as he’d been told; in fact, the window faced a blank wall.

Upset, the man called for the nurse and explained the situation.

“Why would he lie to me?” he questioned the nurse.

After thinking for a moment, the nurse looked at him and said:


“Maybe he just wanted to encourage you.”

This should be a lesson to all of us that no matter our situation, we can do tremendous good for those around us by looking on the bright side of every situation.

Even when we’re faced with what seems like an impenetrable brick wall, we can bring so much happiness and joy to those around us if we find positive ways of looking at the world.

The man in the story could just as easily have described the bland, brick wall that stood outside the window but instead of simply passing along his misery and grief, he shared whatever happiness he did have, doubling it.

Share this story to share joy with others!

Once a group of 50 people were attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity.

 He started giving each person a balloon. Each person was then asked to write their name on it using a marker pen.

Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.

The people were then let into that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written on it within 5 minutes.

Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with each other, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.

At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.

Then, the speaker asked each person to randomly collect a balloon and give it to the person whose name was written on it. Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.

The speaker then began, "This is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.

Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness; you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life...the pursuit of happiness."

Be good....

Be good

A farmer grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon.

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked. “Why sir,” said the farmer, “didn’t you know? 

The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn.”

So it is with our lives. Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

Call it power of collectivity - Call it a principle of success - Call it a law of life.

The fact is, none of us truly wins, until we all win!!

One Sunday morning, a wealthy man sat in his balcony enjoying sunshine and his coffee when a little ant caught his eye which was going from one side to the other side of the balcony carrying a big leaf several times more than its size.
 The man watched it for more than an hour. 
He saw that the ant faced many impediments during its journey, paused, took a diversion and then continued towards destination.

At one point the tiny creature came across a crack in the floor. It paused for a little while, analyzed and then laid the huge leaf over the crack, walked over the leaf, picked the leaf on the other side then continued its journey.

The man was captivated by the cleverness of the ant, one of God’s tiniest creatures. 
The incident left the man in awe and forced him to contemplate over the miracle of Creation. 
It showed the greatness of the Creator. 
In front of his eyes there was this tiny creature of God, lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to analyze, contemplate, reason, explore, discover and overcome. Along with all these capabilities, the man also noticed that this tiny creature shared some human shortcomings.

The man saw about an hour later the creature had reached its destination – a tiny hole in the floor which was entrance to its underground dwelling. 
And it was at this point that the ant’s shortcoming that it shared with the man was revealed. 
How could the ant carry into the tiny hole the large leaf that it had managed to carefully bring to the destination? It simply couldn’t!

So the tiny creature, after all the painstaking and hard work and exercising great skills, overcoming all the difficulties along the way, just left behind the large leaf and went home empty-handed.

The ant had not thought about the end before it began its challenging journey and in the end the large leaf was nothing more than a burden to it. 
The creature had no option, but to leave it behind to reach its destination. 

The man learned a great lesson that day.

Isn’t that the truth about our lives?

We worry about our family, we worry about our job, we worry about how to earn more money, we worry about where we should live – 5 bedroom or 6 bedroom house, what kind of vehicle to buy – a Mercedes or BMW or a Porsche, what kind of dresses to wear, all sorts of things, only to abandon all these things when we reach our destination – The Grave. 

We don’t realize in our life’s journey that these are just burdens that we are carrying with utmost care and fear of losing them, only to find that at the end they are useless and we can’t take them with us.