Story Of Appreciation

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Story Of Appreciation

 

 



One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company. 
  
He passed the first interview; the director did the last interview, made the last decision. 
The director discovered from the CV, that the youth's academic result is excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never was a year he did not score. 
The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the youth answered "none". 
The director asked, " Is it your father who paid for your school fees?" the youth answered, my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my mother who paid for my school fees. 
The director asked, " Where did your mother work?" the youth answered, my mother worked as a cloth cleaner. The director requested the youth to show his hand, the youth showed a pair of hand that were smooth and perfect to the director.

 


The director asked, " Did you ever help your mother wash the clothes before?" The youth answered, never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books, furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me.The director said, I have a request, when you go back today, go and help to clean your mother's hand, and then see me tomorrow morning. 
The youth felt that as the chance of landing the job is high, when he went back, he happily wanted to clean his mother's hand, his mother felt strange, happy but mixed with fear, she showed her hands to the kid. 
The youth cleaned his mother's hand slowly, his tears dropped down as he did that.  It is the first time he found his mother's hands so wrinkled, and there are so many bruises in her hand. Some bruises incite pains so strong that shiver his mother's body when cleaned with water.

  

This is the first time the youth realized and experienced that it is this pair of hand that washed the cloth everyday to earn him the school fees, the bruises in the mother's hand is the price that the mother paid for his graduation and academic excellence and probably his future. 

 

After finishing the cleaning of his mother hand, the youth quietly cleaned all remaining clothes for his mother. That night, mother and son talked for a very long time. 

 

Next morning, the youth went to the director's office. 
The director noticed the tear in the youth's eye, asked: “Can you tell what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?" 
The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hand, and also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes' 
The director asked, “please tell me your feeling." 

 

The youth said : 
Number 1, I knew what is appreciation, without my mother, there would not the successful me today. 
Number 2, I knew how to work together with my mother, then only I can realize how difficult and tough to get something done. 
Number 3, I knew the importance and value of family relationship. 
The director said, " This is what I am asking, I want to recruit a person that can appreciate the help of other, a person that knew the suffering of others to get thing done, and a person that would not put money as his only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired. 

 

Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates, every employees worked diligently and in a team, the company's result improved tremendously.


A child who had been protected and habitually given whatever he did, he developed "entitlement mentality" and always put himself first. He is ignorant of his parent's effort. When he started work, he assumed every people must listen to him, and when he became a manager, he would never know how suffering his employee and always blame others.  For this kind of people, he can have good result, may be successful for a while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement, he will grumble and full of hatred and fight for more. If we are this kind of protective parent, did we love the kid or destroy the kid?

 


You can let your kid live in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experience it. After a meal, let them wash their plate and bowl together with their brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way.  You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parents are, one day their hair will grow grey, same as the mother of that young person.

 

The most important thing is your kid learn how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learn the ability to work with others to get things done.

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On 05 November 2010 at 15:35 Report
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student
2481 Points Joined February 2008

very nice article keep posting like this..................

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On 05 November 2010 at 15:49
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CWA Inter student
162 Points Joined May 2009
Such a nice story . Thanx for sharing.
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On 05 November 2010 at 19:18
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112 Points Joined October 2007

Good one........

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On 06 November 2010 at 10:26
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CS Final
1049 Points Joined September 2009

How true????????? Keep sharing..........................

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On 06 November 2010 at 10:56
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CA FINAL
207 Points Joined October 2008

very inspiring & good message conveyed through this message. thanks & keep sharing

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On 06 November 2010 at 15:19
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Learner
410 Points Joined July 2009

Very good inspirational story. A must read for everyone.

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On 06 November 2010 at 18:15
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CA Final
2405 Points Joined April 2010
tahx all n Happy new year
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On 07 November 2010 at 07:54
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Practising CA at Surat
26263 Points Joined November 2009

Very inspiring indeed !

 

The directions of the Director are superb. Hard to believe such Directors are alive on this earth.

 

Reality is  most known successful persons are so poor that they don't ( or cannot ?) even sit for an hour with their mother in a year !

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On 07 November 2010 at 08:37
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company secretary
2243 Points Joined April 2008

Very Heart touching Story with Great Moral..

Thanks For sharing...

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On 09 November 2010 at 17:19


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