The Blind Boy

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with
a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said:
“I am blind, please help.”
There were only a few coins in the hat.
A man was walking by. He took a few coins
from his pocket and dropped them into the
hat. He then took the sign, turned it around,
and wrote some words. He put the sign back
so that everyone who walked by would see the
new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more
people were giving money to the blind boy.
That afternoon the man who had changed the
sign came to see how things were.
The boy recognized his footsteps and asked,
“Were you the one who changed my sign this
morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said
what you said but in a different way.”
What he had written was: “Today is a beautiful
day and I cannot see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign
were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was
blind. But the first sign simply said the boy
was blind. The second sign told people they
were so lucky that they were not blind. Should
we be surprised that the second sign was more
effective?
Moral of the story: Be thankful for what you
have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think
differently and positively.
Invite others towards good with wisdom. Live
life with no excuse and love with no regrets.
When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show
life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face
your past without regret. Handle your present
with confidence. Prepare for the future
without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear.
Great men say, “Life has to be an incessant
process of repair and reconstruction, of
discarding evil and developing goodness…. In
the journey of life, if you want to travel
without fear, you must have the ticket of a
good conscience.”
The most beautiful thing is to see a person
smiling. And even more beautiful is, knowing
that you are the reason behind it.