Inspirational stories links
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=inspirational+stories+for+kids+by+sandeep+maheswari. Everyone Has a Story in Life
A 24 year old
boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted…
“Dad, look the
trees are going behind!”
Dad smiled and
a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior
with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed…
“Dad, look the
clouds are running with us!”
The couple
couldn’t resist and said to the old man…
“Why don’t you
take your son to a good doctor?” The old man smiled and said…“I did and we are
just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his
eyes today.”
Every single
person on the planet has a story. Don’t judge people before you truly know
them. The truth might surprise you.
2. Shake off Your Problems
A man’s
favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice. He can’t pull it out no matter how
hard he tries. He therefore decides to bury it alive.
Soil is poured
onto the donkey from above. The donkey feels the load, shakes it off, and steps
on it. More soil is poured.
It shakes it
off and steps up. The more the load was poured, the higher it rose. By noon,
the donkey was grazing in green pastures.
After much
shaking off (of problems) And stepping up (learning from them), One will graze
in GREEN PASTURES.
3. The Elephant Rope
As a man was passing the elephants, he
suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being
held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was
obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but
for some reason, they did not.
He saw a
trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt
to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller
we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold
them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away.
They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”
The man was
amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because
they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were.
Like the
elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot
do something, simply because we failed at it once before?
Failure is part
of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life.
4. Potatoes, Eggs, and Coffee Beans
Once upon a
time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that
she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and
struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one
soon followed.
Her father, a
chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each
on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one
pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot.
He then let
them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned
and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After twenty
minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and
placed them in a bowl. He pulled the boiled eggs out and
placed them in a bowl.
He then ladled
the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked. “Daughter, what
do you see?”
“Potatoes,
eggs, and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer,”
he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft. He
then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she
observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich
aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what
does this mean?” she asked.
He then
explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same
adversity– the boiling water.
However, each
one reacted differently.
The potato went
in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and
weak.
The egg was
fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was
put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the
ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water,
they changed the water and created something new.
“Which are
you,” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you
respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean? “
Moral:In life,
things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly
matters is what happens within us.
Which one are
you?
5. A Dish of Ice Cream
In the days when an ice cream sundae
cost much less, a 10 year old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a
table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.
“How much is an
ice cream sundae?”
“50 cents,”
replied the waitress.
The little boy
pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied a number of coins in it.
“How much is a
dish of plain ice cream?” he inquired. Some people were now waiting for a table
and the waitress was a bit impatient.
“35 cents,” she
said brusquely.
The little boy
again counted the coins. “I’ll have the plain ice cream,” he said.
The waitress
brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy
finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and departed.
When the
waitress came back, she began wiping down the table and then swallowed hard at
what she saw.
There, placed
neatly beside the empty dish, were 15 cents – her tip.
INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHTS
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