Bite what can be chewed (Read Liked and Shared)

The art of living : Bite what can be chewed  (shared via FB by Vedam Madhu)

One Sunday morning, a wealthy man sat in his balcony enjoying sunshine and his coffee when a little ant caught his eye which was going from one side to the other side of the balcony carrying a big leaf several times more than its size. The man watched it for more than an hour. He saw that the ant faced many impediments during its journey, paused, took a diversion and then continued towards destination.

At one point the tiny creature came across a crack in the floor. It paused for a little while, analyzed and then laid the huge leaf over the crack, walked over the leaf, picked the leaf on the other side then continued its journey.

The man was captivated by the cleverness of the ant, one of Nature’s tiniest creatures. The incident left the man in awe and forced him to contemplate over the miracle of Creation. In front of his eyes there was this tiny creature, lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to analyze, contemplate, reason, explore, discover and overcome. Along with all these capabilities, the man also noticed that this tiny creature shared some human shortcomings.

The man saw about an hour later the creature had reached its destination – a tiny hole in the floor which was entrance to its underground dwelling. And it was at this point that the ant’s shortcoming that it shared with the man was revealed. How could the ant carry into the tiny hole the large leaf that it had managed to carefully bring to the destination? It simply couldn’t!

So the tiny creature, after all the painstaking and hard work and exercising great skills, overcoming all the difficulties along the way, just left behind the large leaf and went home empty-handed.

The ant had not thought about the end before it began its challenging journey and in the end the large leaf was nothing more than a burden to it. The creature had no option, but to leave it behind to reach its destination. The man learned a great lesson that day.

Isn’t that the truth about our lives?

We worry about our family, we worry about our job, we worry about how to earn more money, we worry about where we should live – 5 bedroom or 6 bedroom house, what kind of vehicle to buy – a Mercedes or BMW or a Porsche, what kind of dresses to wear, all sorts of things, only to abandon all these things when we reach our destination – The Grave. We don’t realize in our life’s journey that these are just burdens that we are carrying with utmost care and fear of losing them, only to find that at the end they are useless and we can’t take them with us.

Read Liked and Shared--Ask and You Shall Be Given

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A man was walking through a forest pondering about life.  He walked, pondered, walked and pondered. He felt close to nature and God.  He felt he was so close to God that if he spoke, God would listen.  


So he asked,  "God, are you listening?" and 


God replied, "Yes my son, I am here."  


The man stopped pondered some more.  He looked towards the sky and asked, "God, what is a million years to you?"  


God replied, "Well my son, a second to me is like a million years to you."


So the man continued to walk and to ponder...walk and ponder...then he looked to the sky again and asked, "God, what is a million dollar to you?" and 


God replied, "My Son, A Cent to me is like a million dollars to you.  It means almost nothing to me.  It does not even have a value; it is so little."  


The man pondered a bit and then looked up to the sky and said "God, can I have a million dollars?" and 


God replied,  "In a second."


Source: Times of India - Speaking Tree, Issue - Feb 28th 2010.

Read Liked and Shared---Flapping Flag

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Four monks were meditating in a monastery.  All of a sudden the prayer flag on the roof started flapping.  The younger monk came out of meditation and said : "Flag is flapping."  A more experienced monk said "Wind is flapping."  A third monk who had been there for more than 20 years said "Mind is flapping."  The fourth monk who was the eldest said, visibly annoyed" "Mouths are flapping". 

Source: Times of India - Speaking Tree, Issue - Feb 28th 2010.