*************************************************************************************** sastri was the managing director of Tungabhadra Steel Products Limited. I was The Secretary of the Tungabhadra Board.
STORY OF A BROTHER AND SISTER
I was born in a secluded village on a mountain. Day by day, my parents plowed the yellow dry soil with their backs towards the sky.
I have a brother who is 3 years younger than me. I wanted to buy a handkerchief, which all girls around me seemed to have. So, one day I stole 50 cents from my father's drawer. Father had discovered about the stolen money right away.
He made me and my younger brother kneel against the wall as he held a bamboo stick in his hand.
'Who stole the money?' he asked.
I was stunned, too afraid to talk. Neither of us admitted to the fault, so he said, 'Fine, if nobody wants to admit, you two should be beaten!'
He lifted up the bamboo stick.
Suddenly, my younger brother gripped father's hand and said, Dad, I was the one who did it!'
The long stick smacked my brother's back repeatedly. Father was so angry that he kept on whipping my brother until he lost his breath.
After that, he sat down on our stone bed and scolded my brother, 'You have learned to steal from your own house now. What other embarrassing things will you be possibly doing in the future? You should be beaten to death, you shameless thief!'
That night, my mother and I hugged my brother. His body was full of wounds from the beating but he never shed a single tear.
In the middle of the night, all of sudden, I cried out loudly. My brother covered my mouth with his little hand and said, Sis, now don't cry anymore. Everything has happened.'
I still hate myself for not having enough courage to admit what I did. Years went by, but the incident still seemed like it just happened yesterday.
I will never forget my brother's expression when he protected me.
That year, my brother was 8 years old and I was 11 years old.
When my brother was in his last year of secondary school, he was accepted in an upper secondary school in the central. At the same time, I was accepted into a university in the province.
That night, father squatted in the yard, smoking, packet by packet. I could hear him ask my mother, 'Both of our children, they have good results? Very good results?'
Mother wiped off her tears and sighed,' What is the use? How can we possibly finance both of them?'
At that time, my brother walked out, he stood in front of father and said, 'Dad, I don't want to continue my study anymore, I have read enough books.'
Father swung his hand and slapped my brother on his face.
'Why do you have a spirit so damn weak? Even if it means I have to beg for money on the streets, I will send you two to school until you have both finished your studies!'
And then, he started to knock on every house in the village to borrow money.
I stuck out my hand as gently as I can to my brother's swollen face, and told him, 'A boy has to continue his study; if not, he will not be able to overcome this poverty we are experiencing.'
I, on the other hand, had decided not to further my study at the university.
Nobody knew that on the next day, before dawn, my brother left the house with a few pieces of worn-out clothes and a few dry beans. He sneaked to my side of the bed and left a note on my pillow; 'Sis, getting into a university is not easy. I will go find a job and I will send money to you.'
I held the note while sitting on my bed, and cried until I lost my voice.
That year, my brother was 17 years old; I was 20 years old.
With the money father borrowed from the whole village, and the money my brother earned from carrying cement on his back at a construction site, finally, I managed to get to the third year of my study in the university.
One day, while I was studying in my room, my roommate came in and told me, 'There's a villager waiting for you outside!'
Why would there be a villager looking for me? I walked out, and I saw my brother from afar. His whole body was covered with dirt, dust, cement and sand. I asked him, 'Why did you not tell my roommate that you are my brother?'
He replied with a smile,' Look at my appearance. What will they think if they would know that I am your brother? Won't they laugh at you?'
I felt so touched, and tears filled my eyes. I swept away dirt and dust from my brother's body. And told him with a lump in my throat, 'I don't care what people would say! You are my brother no matter what your appearance is?'
From his pocket, he took out a butterfly hair clip. He put it on my hair and said, 'I saw all the girls in town are wearing it. So, I think you should also have one.'
I could not hold back myself anymore. I pulled my brother into my arms and cried. That year, my brother was 20 years old; I was 23 years old.
I noticed that the broken window was repaired the first time I brought my boyfriend home. The house was scrubbed clean.
After my boyfriend left, I danced like a little girl in front of my mother, 'Mom, you didn't have to spend so much time cleaning the house!' But she told me with a smile,
'It was your brother who went home early to clean the house. Didn't you see the wound on his hand? He hurt his hand while he was replacing the window.'
I went into my brother's bedroom. Looking at his thin face, I felt like hundreds of needles pricked in my heart.
I applied some ointment on his wound and put a bandage on it, 'Does it hurt?' I asked him.
'No, it doesn't hurt. You know, when at the construction site, stones keep falling on my feet ...Even that could not stop me from working.'
In the middle of the sentence, he stopped. I turned my back on him and tears rolled down my face. That year, my brother was 23 years old; I was 26 years old.
After I got married, I lived in the city. Many times my husband invited my parents to come and live with us, but they didn't want.
They said, once they left the village, they wouldn't know what to do.
my brother agreed with them. He said, 'Sis, you just take care of your parents-in-law. I will take care of Mom and Dad here.'
My husband became the director of his factory. We asked my brother to accept the offer of being the manager in the maintenance department. But my brother rejected the offer. He insisted on working as a repairman instead for a start.
One day, my brother was on the top of a ladder repairing a cable, when he got electrocuted, and was sent to the hospital.
My husband and I visited him at the hospital. Looking at the plaster cast on his leg, I grumbled, 'Why did you reject the offer of being a manager? Managers won't do something dangerous like that. Now look at you - you are suffering a serious injury. Why didn't you just listen to us?'
With a serious expression on his face, he defended his decision, 'Think of brother-in-law. He just became the director, and I being uneducated, and would become a manager, what kind of rumors would fly around?'
My husband's eyes filled up with tears, and then I said, 'But you lack in education only because of me!'
'Why do you talk about the past?' he said and then he held my hand.
That year, he was 26 years old and I was 29 years old.
My brother was 30 years old when he married a farmer girl from the village. During the wedding reception, the master of ceremonies asked him, 'Who is the one person you respect and love the most?'
Without even taking a time to think, he answered,' My sister.' He continued by telling a story I could not even remember.
'When I was in primary school, the school was in a different village. Everyday, my sister and I would walk for 2 hours to school and back home. One day, I lost the other pair of my gloves. My sister gave me one of hers.
She wore only one glove and she had to walk far. When we got home, her hands were trembling because of the cold weather that she could not even hold her chopsticks. From that day on, I swore that as long as I live, I would take care of my sister and will always be good to her.'
Applause filled up the room. All guests turned their attention to me.
I found it hard to speak, 'In my whole life, the one I would like to thank most is my brother, 'And in this happy occasion, in front of the crowd, tears were rolling down my face again.
Love and care for the one you love every single day of your life. You may think what you did is just a small deed, but to that someone, it may mean a lot.
Have a nice day everyone!
May this story inspire you !
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Sai Inspires If there is anything sweeter than all things, more auspicious than everything else, holier than the holiest, truly, it is the Name of the Lord, or the Lord Himself. Give up the company of the worldly minded and seek always the company of the wise and the good. Take refuge in the Lord, He is the embodiment of Peace. He will reside constantly in the place where devotees honor His Name sincerely, with devotion and dedication. Practice intense devotion to the Lord and that is the key to attaining real and permanent happiness.
- Divine Discourse, Prasanthi Vahini.
Courtesy--Potti King" <yourroad@hotmail.com>
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MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM "3 IDIOTS" MOVIE 1.Never Try To Be Successful Success is a bye-product. Excellence always creates success. So, never run after success, let it happen automatically. 2. Freedom To Life Don¹t die before actual death. Live every moment to the fullest as if you are going to die tonight. Life is gifted to humankind to live & live in happiness. 3. Passion Leads To Excellence When your hobby becomes your profession and passion becomes your profession you will be able to reach excellence in life. Satisfaction, pleasure, joy and love will be the outcome of following your passion. By following your passion for years, you will surely do great things. 4. Learning Is Very Simple Teachers do fail. Learners never fail. Learning is never complicated or difficult. Learning is always possible irrespective of the rules. 5. Pressure on Head Current education system is developing pressure on students¹ heads. University intelligence is useful and impacts life but it cannot be at the cost of life. 6. Life Is Emotion Management Not Intelligence Optimization Memory and regular study have definite value and it always helps in life. You are able to survive even if you can make some mark in the path of life. With artificial intelligence, you can survive and win but you cannot prove yourself as a genius. Therefore, in this process the genius in you dies. 7. Necessity Is the Mother of Invention Necessity creates pressure and forces you to invent something or to make it happen by using your potentiality. In this film, Aamir Khan is able to prove it by using vacuum cleaner pump at the last moment. 8. Simplicity is Life Life is need based, not want based. Desires have no ends. Simplicity is way of life and Indian culture highly stresses on simple living and high thinking - Feet touching the earth and eyes looking beyond the sky¹ 9. Industrial Leadership The Dean of the institute in 3 idiots is showing typical leadership qualities. He has his own principles, values and ideology, and he leads the whole institute accordingly. This is an example of current institutional leadership, which needs a revamp. 10. Importance Of One Word In Communication If communication dies, everything dies. Each word has an impact. The effect of one word used wrongly or emphasized wrongly is demonstrated very well in this movie. 11. Mediocrity Is Penalized Middle class family or average talent or average institute is going to suffer and has to pay a heavy price if they do not upgrade their living standards. To be born poor or average is not a crime but to die poor or with average talent is miserable. If you are unable to optimize your potentiality and die with unused potential then that is a shameful truth. He/she has to bring out the genius inside him/her and has to use his/her potentiality to the optimum level ******************************************************************************************
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Give your ears to words but do not give your words to ears..
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One day, I hopped into a taxi and took off for the airport . We were driving in the right
lane when suddenly, a black car, jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.
My taxi driver slammed the brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches.
The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.. My
taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. I mean, was really friendly. So I asked
"Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the
hospital!" This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, The Law of the
Garbage Truck.
He explained, "Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage,
full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up
they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you.. NEVER take it
personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on with the routine life.
Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the
streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their
day.
Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...... 'Love the people
who treat you right.. Pray for the ones who don't.'
Believe that everything happens for a reason.
If you get a chance, TAKE IT! If it changes your life, LET IT! Nobody said it would be easy.
They just promised it would be worth it!"
A very rightly said quote: Life is 10% what you make and 90% how you take!!!! **********************************
If nothing ever changed,
there'd be no butterflies.
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
The caterpillar does all the work
but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it
pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.
We are like butterflies who flutter
for a day and think it is forever.
""Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. |
Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring.
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp, but which,
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
"If nothing in the world ever changed,
there wouldn't be butterflies."
The butterfly counts not months
but moments, and has time enough.
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If a child lives with books, story telling, and reading aloud on his parents' laps he learns to enjoy reading.
If a child lives with notes and letters exchanged in the course of his family life, he learns to enjoy writing.
If a child has conversation with parents and siblings around the dinner table, and while working and playing together, he learns good language and listening skills.
If a child has time and encouragement to develop his own plans and carry our projects, he learns initiative.
If a child learns to finish jobs at home and to get his school work and homework done readily, he learns responsibility and task-commitment.
If a child is taught to be organized with his books and possessions at home, he learns to be reliable with the hundreds of handouts, tests and materials that cross his desk at school.
If a child's learning style and strengths are discovered and respected, he becomes an active learner and grows in confidence.
If a child's questions are encouraged, his curiosity flourishes and he has a sense of wonder about the world.
If a child has stability and security at home, he had inner stability and can focus and concentrate on his studies and achieve in school tasks.
If a child lives with positive expectations and has success in meeting them, he gains motivation for the challenges ahead.
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I WISH YOU THE STRENGTH OF ALL ELEMENTS
The one who takes your hand but touches your heart is a true friend
Don't cry because it's over now, laugh because it happened
The more precisely you plan, the harder destiny will hit you
What happens, happens for a reason
Don't make an effort because the best things happen, when you least expect them
The greatest events, aren't the loudest, but the most quiet hours
The most difficult lesson to learn is: Which bridge in life to use or which one to break off
Everybody sees how you seem, however, only some know who you are
If you who would like something you have never had or you haven't done as yet, make a start and do it well
Perhaps you should become acquainted with many different people in the course of your life, so that when you meet the right ones, you can appreciate and be grateful for them
Give something a name, and it will happen
Love doesn't require that two people look at each other, but that they look together in the same direction (Antoine de Saint Exupery)
Life is drawing without an eraser
I wish you always: Air to breath, fire to warm you, water to drink and the earth to live in!
I WISH THIS TO YOU FROM MY HEART
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