My Thoughts on Valuing People
A bus full of
passengers was traveling while suddenly the weather changed and there was a
huge downpour and lightening all around.
They could see that
the lightening would appear to come towards the bus and then go elsewhere.
After 2 or 3 horrible
instances of being saved from lightening, the driver stopped the bus about
fifty feet away from a tree and said,
"We have
somebody in the bus whose death is a certainty today. Because of that person
everybody else will also get killed today. Now listen carefully what I am
saying. I want each person to come out of the bus one by one and touch the tree
trunk and come back. Whom so ever death is certain will get caught up by the
lightening and will die & everybody else will be saved".
They had to force the
1st person to go and touch the tree and come back.
He reluctantly got
down from the bus and went and touched the tree. His heart leaped with joy when
nothing happened and he was still alive. He came back into the bus full of joy.
This continued for
rest of the passengers who were all relieved when they touched the tree and
nothing happened.
When the last
passenger's turn came, everybody looked at him with accusing eyes. That
passenger was very afraid and reluctant since he was the only one left.
Everybody forced him
to get down and go and touch the tree. With a 100% fear of death in mind, the
last passenger walked to the tree and touched it.
Suddenly, there was a
huge sound of thunder and the lightening came down and hit the bus - yes the
lightening hit the bus, and killed each and every passenger that was inside the
bus.
Apparently, it was
because of the presence of this last passenger that, earlier, the entire bus
was safe and the lightening could not strike the bus.
LIFE LEARNING from
this..
At times, we try to
take credit for our present achievements, forgeting that this could have
happened because of a person right next to us.
Look around you -
Probably someone is there around you right now, in the form of your parents, a
spouse, a lover, a child, your siblings, your friends, colleagues, domestic
staff, neighbors etc. whose prescence around you could be saving you from harm,
or responsible for your success ...!
''Alone I can 'Say'
but together we can 'Talk'.
'Alone I can 'Enjoy'
but together we can 'Celebrate'.
'Alone I can 'Smile'
but together we can 'Laugh'.
That's the BEAUTY of
Human Relations. We are nothing without each other.
Think About it, and
consciously value the people around you going forward.
©Esojayiludun,
enhancing people's capacities & resetting brains since 1990
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