A 11 year old blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man, who happened to be a top-producing real estate , came by and put a few coins into the hat. He then paused and picked up the sign, turned it around. and wrote down a new sentence. He then gave the boy the sign back.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?” The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”
I wrote: “Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it.”
Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people to be grateful for their sight.
Moral of the Story? Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively. When life gives you one hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand and one reasons to smile. . Live in faith and not in fear. The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling. And even more beautiful, is knowing that you are the reason behind it!
