Hii everyone,
It has been really long since I have written anything. Perhaps it is because nothing so exciting was happening in my life or perhaps I wasn’t creating exiting moments which I can share. There has been few thoughts that kept running in my mind during these days but because of my lazy body and bit of so called busy schedule I could not get down to my blog and write them on virtual white paper.
Lately, I have been thinking much about god, the creator of human being. I have been involving myself into religious talks just to resolve my curiosity as to what other people, especially people who believe in different religion think about god, almighty or the saviour.
I believe in Hinduism and after talking to many people, I got to know that I really need to know a lot about Hinduism to answer their curiosity. The biggest one is “Why do we have more than one god?” I tried as much as I could but I am still unable to explain them why It is the way it is. Anyway, but one conversation which was touching came form one christian guy called Shaun, my work mate and one of the point that I picked up on that day was to love selflessly, to almost everyone. Basically follow god’s path to see his love towards us. That talk created many thoughts in my mind and to be "altruistic" and "leave no ego" is one way to see the love of god towards you.
And today, I came across something while I was reading and thought of sharing.
How our inner Ego sometimes misjudges a PERSON.
A lady in a faded grey dress and her husband, dressed in a home-spun suit walked in timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President’s outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn’t even deserve to be in Harvard.
“We want to see the President “the man said softly.
“He’ll be busy all day “the secretary snapped.
“We’ll wait” the lady replied.
For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn’t and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president...
“Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they’ll leave” she said to him. The President, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.
The lady told him “We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.”
The president wasn’t touched….He was shocked. “Madam” he said, gruffly, “we can’t put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery.”
“Oh, no,” the lady explained quickly ” We don’t want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard.”
The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, and then exclaimed, “A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.”
For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, “Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don’t we just start our own?”
Her husband nodded. The president’s face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the University that bears their name: - Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
Most of the time we judge people by their outer appearance, which can be misleading. And in this impression, we tend to treat people badly by thinking they can do nothing for us. Thus we tend to lose our potential good friends, employees or customers.
Remember
In our Life, we seldom get people with whom we want to share & grow our thought process. But because of our inner EGO we miss them forever.
It is you who have to decide with whom you are getting associated in day to day life.
And remember:
Small people talk about others,
Average people talk about things,
Great people talk about ideas.
Cheers ~