Friday Inspiration

Happy Friday!!!

A German once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol.

Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby...                                                                                         

Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?"

"No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage..."

The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage...

"Where is the damage?" he asked.

"There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work....

"Where are you going to install the idol?"

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high...

"If the idol is that far who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.

The sculptor stopped work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it..."

The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not....

"Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside...Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency. Don't Climb a Mountain with an Intention that the World Should See You, Climb the Mountain with the Intention to See the World.

Inspired and be inspired!

Decision Making - Truth of Life

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track.

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?

Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make........ .........

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Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place?
Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was. This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.

The great critic Leo Velski Julian said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens.. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track! Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.


'Remember that what's right isn't always popular... and what's popular isn't always right.'

Everybody makes mistakes; that's why they put erasers on pencils.

However, people who do not repeat their mistakes would always succeed.