There
lived a schoolteacher named Malika Chand. She loved teaching and treated her
students as she would, her own children. Nurturing their potential with great
kindness. Her perennial motto was, 'Your, I can is more important than your, IQ.'
She
was known throughout her community as a person who lived to give. Who
selflessly served anyone in need? Sadly, her beloved school, which had stood as
a silent witness to the delightful progress of generations of children,
succumbed to the flames of a fire set by an arsonist one night. All those in
the community felt this great loss. But as time passed by, their anger gave way
to apathy and they resigned themselves to the fact that their children would be
without a school.
"What
about Malika?"
"She
was different, an eternal optimist if there ever was one. Unlike everyone
around her, she perceived opportunity in what had happened. She told all the
parents that every setback offers an equivalent benefit if they took the time
to search for it. This event was a gift in disguise."
"The
school that burned to the ground was old and decrepit."
"The
roof leaked and the floor had finally buckled under the strain of a thousand
little feet scampering across its surface. This was the chance that they had
been waiting for to join hands as a community and build a much better school,
one that would serve many more children in the years to come."
"And
so, with this sixty-four-year-old dynamo behind them, they marshalled their
collective resources and raised enough funds to build a sparkling new school,
one that stood as a shining example of the power of vision in the face of
adversity."
Note:
No matter, what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to
choose your responses to it? When you form the habit of searching for the
positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest
dimensions. This is one of the greatest of all the natural laws.
That's an uplifting story. I try to see "problems" as opportunities.
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