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Member Posts: 2 | Once the five fingers, which normally shared a warm friendship, got into a serious argument. Of course, the subject is the same old one that has been plaguing all living things since the dawn of Time - namely who is the biggest of them all. The Thumb responded first with a contemptuous look on its face and with a perceptible sneer wondering why there should be an argument at all about it. "Without me?", the thumb said, "you guys are powerless. Try doing anything without my support and you will know!" The middle finger laughed out aloud at this statement and said "You pygmy! I am the tallest here and strategically placed at the middle. Haven't you seen that in any group photo, the most important person occupies the middle seat? Do I need to say anything more?" The ring finger listened to all this with a disinterested yawn. He looked around him with the kind of authority that only the affluent could afford to exhibit and, flaunting his expensive diamond ring set in platinum, said, "You guys seem to forget that I give you all the status that you enjoy. All of you get noticed only because of me!" The mercurial index finger was furious at this preposterous statement. "Status, my foot!" he thundered. "Don't you guys know that when our man is roused to fury, he uses me to put his adversary in his place? And when someone seeks his direction, he uses me again to show him the right path to take. I am the symbol of his power and authority", he said. All fingers now turned to the little finger to hear what he had to say. The poor fellow who was listening to all others had now shrunk to half of his size with shame and remorse. He could feel the look of ridicule around and he started crying. Next morning, the owner of the fingers went to a temple and stood before the Lord in prayer with folded hands. As the ringing of bells and drums reached a crescendo, the Lord appeared before the little finger and smiled at him. "The other fingers may be big in their own way but you are the closest to me when your man stands before me with folded hands. Do you want to be bigger than that?" He asked the little finger smilingly. The little finger's heart overflowed with joy and when he wept this time, it was with tears of joy! Guess who told me this story? My seven year old grand daughter Kithu alias Kriti! She told me that she heard this story at lunch time from the mother of one of her classmates. I was truly amazed that there existed mothers in this fast world who could find time to teach their children to feel important on a moral basis and not on material basis through such wonderful stories. Most of us, in our desire to ensure a glorious future for our wards, keep telling them how to go about it without simultaneously building in them a strong moral foundation. It is like building an awesome edifice without a proper foundation. It is bound to collapse sooner or later like the Twin Tower in the hands of the terrorists. Of all the human faculties, the most important is the awareness of one's place in society. Be it in our community, or the Organisation that we work for or the neighborhood where we live in, all of us should feel basically important and useful. In the Grand Scheme of Things, no one is less important than the other. The moment one starts wondering if he is as important or useful as the other, the results of such a train of thought will be disastrous. In a well known global fraternity of which I am a member and very passionate about, there is a beautiful thought which says that "the highest is he who performs his part best but not he who fills the most exalted position". It goes on further to say that the flowers of the field proclaim the glory of God as much as the stars of the firmament. The manufacturers of the world?s most expensive cars like the Maybach will not put in one single nail in it that will be of no use to the performance of the car. If that be so, how could we imagine that God would have created this Universe and put us up there without any purpose? If we realise the importance of our own role in the scheme of things, we would feel no conflict with the importance of others' roles. Let us all remember the golden words of Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not" This is true not only of the world but of Shivani too! | |
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awesome story!.. hope everyone reads it and realises what they can do for their neighbourhoud/community | |
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