Selfless Love

My wife called, 'How long will you be with that newspaper? Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?

I tossed the paper away and rushed to the scene. My only daughter, Sindu, looked frightened; tears were welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a bowl filled to its brim with curd rice. Sindu is a nice child, quite intelligent for her age.

I cleared my throat and picked up the bowl. 'Sindu, darling, why don't you take a few mouthful of this curd rice? Just for Dad's sake, dear'.

Sindu softened a bit and wiped her tears with the back of her hands. 'Ok, Dad. I will eat - not just a few mouthfuls, but the whole lot of this. But, you should...' Sindu hesitated. 'Dad, if I eat this entire curd Rice, will you give me whatever I ask for?'

'Promise'. I covered the pink soft hand extended by my daughter with mine, and clinched the deal. Now I became a bit anxious. 'Sindu, dear, you shouldn't insist on getting a computer or any such expensive items. Dad does not have that kind of money right now. Ok?'

'No, Dad. I do not want anything expensive'. Slowly and painfully, she finished eating the whole quantity. I was silently angry with my wife and my mother for forcing my child to eat something that she detested. After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with expectation. All our attention was on her. 'Dad, I want to have my head shaved off, this Sunday!' was her demand.

'Atrocious!' shouted my wife, 'A girl child having her head shaved off? Impossible!'

'Never in our family!' My mother rasped. 'She has been watching too much of television. Our culture is getting totally spoiled with these TV programs!'

'Sindu, darling, why don't you ask for something else? We will be sad seeing you with a clean-shaven head.'

'Please, Sindu, why don't you try to understand our feelings?' I tried to plead with her.

'Dad, you saw how difficult it was for me to eat that Curd Rice'. Sindu was in tears. 'And you promised to grant me whatever I ask for. Now, you are going back on your words. Was it not you who told me the story of King Harishchandra, and its moral that we should honor our promises no matter what?'

It was time for me to call the shots. 'Our promise must be kept.'

'Are you out of your mind?' chorused my mother and wife.

'No. If we go back on ourpromises, she will never learn to honour her own. Sindu, your wish will be fulfilled.'

With her head clean-shaven, Sindu had a round-face, and her eyes looked big and beautiful.

On Monday morning, I dropped her at her school. It was a sight to watch my hairless Sindu walking towards her classroom. She turned around and waved. I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy alighted from a car, and shouted, 'Sinduja, please wait for me!' What struck me was the hairless head of that boy. 'May be, that is the in-stuff', I thought.

'Sir, your daughter Sinduja is great indeed!' Without introducing herself, a lady got out of the car, and continued, 'that boy who is walking along with your daughter is my son Harish. He is suffering from... leukemia'. She paused to muffle her sobs. 'Harish could not attend the school for the whole of the last month. He lost all his hair due to the side effects of the chemotherapy. He refused to come back to school fearing the unintentional but cruel teasing of the schoolmates. Sinduja visited him last week, and promised him that she will take care of the teasing issue. But, I never imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of my son!

Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a noble soul as your daughter.'

I stood transfixed and then, I wept. 'My little Angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is!'

The happiest people on this planet are not those who live on their own terms but are those who change their terms for the ones whom they love !!

Always Follow Your Dreams

There were once 2 brothers who lived on the 80th level. On coming home one day, they realized to their dismay that the lifts were not working and that they have to climb the stairs home.

After struggling to the 20th level, panting and tired, they decided to abandon their bags and come back for them the next day. They left their bags then and climbed on. When they have struggled to the 40th level, the younger brother started to grumble and both of them began to quarrel. They continued to climb the flights of steps, quarreling all the way to the 60th floor.

They then realized that they have only 20 levels more to climb and decided to stop quarreling and continue climbing in peace. They silently climbed on and reached their home at long last. Each stood calmly before the door and waited for the other to open the door.

And they realized that the key was in their bags which was left on the 20th floor.

This story is reflecting on our life...many of us live under the expectations of our parents, teachers and friends when young. We seldom get to do the things that we really like and love and are under so much pressure and stress so that by the age of 20, we get tired and decided to dump this load.

Being free of the stress and pressure, we work enthusiastically and dream ambitious wishes.

But by the time we reach 40 years old, we start to lose our vision and dreams. We began to feel unsatisfied and start to complain and criticize. We live life as a misery as we are never satisfied. Reaching 60, we realize that we have little left for complaining anymore, and we began to walk the final episode in peace and calmness.

We think that there is nothing left to disappoint us, only to realize that we could not rest in peace because we have an unfulfilled dream ...... a dream we abandoned 60 years ago.

So what is your dream? Follow your dreams, so that you will not live with regrets.

I bet you can't answer these...

1. Jawaharlal Nehru was the _______ of Indira Gandhi’s Father. ?
2. Make a grammatically correct sentence by using the verb "IS" immediately after the word "I"
3. I am having two coins of Indian currency in my pocket, the total value of which comes to 75 paisa. But mind you, one of the coins is not a fifty paisa coin. How it is possible?
4. What is taken from you before it is given to you?
5. Eventhough it belongs to you, usually others use it, What?




Answer:
1. "NAME"
2. "I" is a pronoun. or "I" is the 9th letter of the English Alphabet
3. I said "ONE" of the coins, not "NONE". So they are 50 and 25 paisa coins
4. Your Photo
5. Your Name

Once in a Life Time Chance

At five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 7th of August this year, the time and date will be

04:05:06 07/08/09

This will never happen again !!!

A Lesson from the Life

Easier to Get the Blood we Need

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Eg: BLOOD AB+ OR BLOOD B+

A BLOOD DONOR WILL CALL YOU!!

So please pass this message to all. It certainly would save many lives.

It's a Must to Know & Share. Do it now....

Forward this to all your friends whom you care ....as the minute you spare to share this information can save somebody's life with rare Blood Group! If you couldn't be a Donor be a Communicator.

Love

If you love someone because you think that he or she is really gorgeous...

then it's not love..

it's - Infatuation...

If you love someone because you think that you shouldn't leave him because others think that you shouldn't...

then it's not love..

it's - Compromise...

If you love someone because you think that you cannot live with out his touch....

then it's not love..

it's - Lust...

If you love someone because you have been kissed by him...

then it's not love..

it's - Inferiority Complex...

If you love someone because you cannot leave him thinking that it would hurt his feelings..

then it's not love..

it's - Charity...

If you love someone because you share every thing with him...

then it's not love..

it's - Friendship...

but if you feel the pain of the other person more than him even when he is stable

and you cry for him..

that's - LOVE...

3 Magical Wishes

A junior manager, a senior manager and their boss are on their way to a meeting. On their way through a park, they come across a wonder lamp. They rub the lamp and a Genie appears.

The Genie says, "Normally, one is granted three wishes but as you are three, I will allow one wish each"

So the eager senior manager shouted, "I want the first wish. I want to be in the Bahamas, on a fast boat and have no worries." Pufffff. and he was gone.

Now the junior manager could not keep quiet and shouted "I want to be In Florida with beautiful girls, plenty of food and cocktails." Pufffff. and he was also gone.

The boss calmly said, "I want these two idiots back in the office after lunch at 12.35pm."

MORAL OF THE STORY IS: "ALWAYS ALLOW THE BOSS TO SPEAK FIRST"

Indian girl has heart and liver outside body

A four-day-old female child whose heart and part of her liver is growing outside her body is seen at the north Bengal medical college on the outskirts of the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri November 26, 2008. "This is a very rare case, we are not sure if we can perform surgery to put her heart and liver back, but we'll try our best," a child specialist Miridula Chatterjee said on Wednesday. Picture taken November 26, 2008.

American on journey to try 50 jobs in 50 weeks in 50 States

London, June 8 (ANI): A man has embarked on an extraordinary journey across the US: to sample 50 careers in 50 States, over 50 weeks.

Daniel Seddiqui is on his 37th job this week as he works as a gardener at Monticello. He has worked as a weather forecaster in Ohio, made cheese in Wisconsin, struggled as a mechanic in Michigan, and joined a pit crew at the Indy 500 track in Indiana.

All of it has been documented on his website, livingthemap.

The economics graduate started on his adventure after 40 failed job interviews.

He bought a second hand car and left his home near San Francisco in August last year, trying to secure employment on the road.

Seddiqui says that the purpose of his journey isn't just to find a permanent job, but to highlight America's cultural diversity.

"I'm choosing jobs which depict the culture or economy of the state and I'm also living the cultures of each state," Sky News quoted him as saying.

"Families are hosting me for the week, so I eat the food they eat, I go to the events they do.

"I'm pretty sure most average Americans don't know what each state has to offer, what they do and what their lifestyle entails.

"I'm trying to help people understand what America is really all about," he added.

Seddiqui's journey hasn't been easy. He's had to sleep in his car several nights and brave extremes of temperature.

He is getting several permanent job offers and a Hollywood production company is developing a movie about his adventures. (ANI)

Courtesy: Yahoo News

Lateral Thinking

Q1. ---------
board

Ans. = man overboard



stand
Q2. ------------
i

Ans. = I understand



Q3. /r/e/a/d/i/n/ g/

Ans. = reading between the lines



Q4. r
road
a
d

Ans. = cross road



Q5. cycle
cycle
cycle

Ans. = tricycle



0
Q6. ---------
M.D.
Ph.D.

Ans. = two degrees below zero




knee
Q7. ------------
light

Ans. = neon light
( knee - on - light )




ground
Q8. ------------ ---
feet feet feet feet feet feet

Ans. = six feet underground




Q9. he's X himself

Ans. = he's by himself




Q10. ecnalg

Ans. = backward glance




Q11. death ..... life

Ans. = life after death




Q12. THINK

Ans. = think big ! !





Q13. ababaaabbbbaaaabbbb ababaabbaaabbbb. ..

Ans. = long time no 'C'