Say it!

cparter
cparter Posts: 754 Member
in Motivation and Support
Someone shared this parable with me today and I thought I would share it to to bring some light to all:

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." I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said
the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they
were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story: Think differently and positively. If you speak or think negatively you get negative results. Positive thinking and a positive attitude will take you a long ways in life.

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