Short Stories this Wednesday!
1. A Very Special Bank Account
Imagine that you had a bank account that
deposited $86,400 each morning. The account carries over no balance from
day to day, does not allow you to keep a cash balance, and every
evening cancels whatever you failed to spend during the day. What would
you do? Draw out every single dollar each day?
We all actually have such a bank. Its name
is Time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night,
it writes off, as lost, whatever time that you failed to use wisely. It
carries over no balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you
cannot borrow against yourself or use more time than you have. Each day,
the account starts anew. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, it’s
your loss and you cannot get it back.
Time
management is yours to decide how you spend your time, just as with
money you decide how you spend it. It’s never the case of us not having
enough time to do things, but the case of whether we want to do them and
where they fall in our priorities.
2. The Right Place
A mother and baby camel were lying under a tree. The baby camel asked its mother, “Why do we have humps?”
The mother camel took a moment to consider
this and said, “We are desert animals so we have the humps to store fat
so we can survive with very little food.”
The baby camel thought for a moment and then said, “Okay…why are our legs long and our feet rounded?
The mother camel replied, “They are meant for walking in the desert.”
The baby paused, and then asked, “Why are our eyelashes long? Sometimes they get in my way…”
The mama camel responded, “Those long, thick eyelashes protect your eyes from the desert sand when it blows in the wind.”
The baby thought and thought. Then he said,
“I see. So the hump stores fat when we are in the desert, the legs are
for walking through the desert and these eyelashes protect our eyes from
the desert…so how come we’re in a zoo?”
Moral of the story: Skills and abilities are only useful if you’re in the right place at the right time. Otherwise, they go to waste.
3. The Dean Schooled Them
One night four college students stayed out
late, partying and having a great time. They paid no mind to the test
that they had the next day and did not study. In the morning, they
hatched a plan to get out of taking the test.
They covered themselves with dirt and
grease and went to the Dean’s office. Once there, they said that they
had been to a wedding the previous night and on the way back they got a
flat tire and had to push the car back to campus.
The dean listened to their tale of woe and
thought. He offered them a retest three days later. They thanked him and
accepted his offer.
When the test day arrived, they went to the
Dean. The dean put them all in separate rooms for the test. They were
fine with this since they had all studied hard. Then they saw that the
test had only two questions.
1. Your name (1 point)
2. Which tire burst? (99 points)
Moral of the story: Always be responsible and make wise decisions.
Illustrations by Tejinder Kamboj
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