Common Man

As a daily habit, 15-year old Pintu was reading newspaper.

Suddenly he asked his father, " Dad! What does it mean by 'Governance
System' ? "

"Its Like..." father said while thinking, "See! I earn and bring money
to home, means I am a 'Money Holder'. Your mother decides where and
how to spend that money and that means she is 'Government'. That maid
in our home is doing all the household works, so she will be 'Labour
Class'. You are a 'Common man' or 'Public'. Your kid brother is
'Future' or the 'Next Generation', understand?".

That day Pintu slept with all those thoughts. In the middle of the
night he woke-up because his kid brother was crying. He wetted the
matress so he was crying. Pintu went to wake up his mother. She was in
deep sleep so Pintu went to the Maid's room to wake her up. But there
his father was sleeping with the maid. So he came back with
frustration.

Next morning father asked Pintu, " Hey Pintu Darling! You understood
the 'Governance System'? ".

Pintu replied, " Yeah Dad, I understood! When the Money Holder is
exploiting the Labour Class, our Government is sleeping. The Future of
our nation is crying for not getting their basic needs fulfilled and
in all this the Common Man is suffering!"

Excellence

Excellence...

A German once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?" "No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage." The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work. "Where are you going to install the idol?"

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. "If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked. The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."
 
The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside. Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency... 

Soul Coffee

  A group of alumni of a reputed college, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work life. Offering his guest coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for each of you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

What all of you really wanted was the coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of life doesn’t change. Sometimes by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”

So, don’t let only the Cups drive you…