Friday, August 15, 2014
Remember that it is not
what happens to us that hurts us… It is our response which hurts us. The
incident below from President Abraham Lincoln’s life further shows us how truly
great human beings respond to a challenging situation in a positive manner…. Read
on… It is inspiring…
On the first day,
as President, Abraham Lincoln began to give his
inaugural address, just in the middle, one man stood up. He was a rich
aristocrat.
He said, “Mr. Lincoln, you
should not forget that your father used to make shoes for my family”. And the
whole senate laughed; they thought they had made fun of Abraham Lincoln.
But Lincoln – and that type
of people are made of a totally different mettle. Lincoln stared at the
man and said, “Sir I know that my father used to make shoes in your house for
your family, and there will be many other here… because the way he made shoes;
nobody else can. He was a creator. His shoes were not just shoes, he
put his whole soul in it. I want to ask you, have you any complaint?
Because I know how to make shoes myself; if you have any complaint I can make
another pair of shoes. But as far as I know, nobody has ever
complained about my father’s shoes.
He was genius, a great
creator and I am proud of my father”.
The whole Senate was struck
dumb. They could not understand what kind of a man Abraham Lincoln was. He had
made the ‘Shoe Making’, an art, a creativity. And he was proud because his
father did the job so well that not even a single complaint had ever been heard.
Reference: http://rishikajain.com/2010/11/15/nobody-can-hurt-you-without/
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