Moral Stories IX

MORAL STORIES

MADE TO FLY

Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons from Arabia. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained. Months passed and one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from its branch since the day it had arrived.

The king summoned healers and sorcerers from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly. He presented the task to the member of his court, but the next day, the king saw through the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its perch. Having tried everything else, the king thought to himself, "May be I need someone more familiar with the countryside to understand the nature of this problem." So he cried out to his court, "Go and get a farmer."

In the morning, the king was thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. He said to his court, "Bring me the doer of this miracle." The court quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king. The king asked him, "How did you make the falcon fly?"

With his head bowed, the farmer said to the king, " It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch where the bird was sitting."

Moral : We are all made to fly- to realize our incredible potential as human beings. But instead of doing that, we sit on our branches, clinging to the things that are familiar to us. The possibilities are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered. We conform to the familiar, the comfortable, the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling.

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THINK OUT OF BOX

Many hundreds of years ago in a small Italian town, a merchant had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the merchant’s beautiful daughter so he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the merchant’s debt if he could marry the daughter. Both the merchant and his daughter were horrified by the proposal.

The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty bag. The girl would then have to pick one pebble from the bag. If she picked the black pebble, she would become the moneylender’s wife and her father’s debt would be forgiven. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail.

They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the merchant’s garden. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick her pebble from the bag.

What would you have done if you were the girl? If you had to advise her, what would you have told her? Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:

1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble.

2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag and expose the moneylender as a cheat.

3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order to save her father from his debt and imprisonment.

The above story is used with the hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral and logical thinking.

The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.

“Oh, how clumsy of me,” she said. “But never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked.” Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had picked the white one. And since the moneylender dared not admit his dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into an advantageous one.

MORAL: Most complex problems do have a solution, sometimes we have to think about them in a different way.

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THINK BETTER AND DIFFERENT



Many hundreds of years ago there was a King who had a huge kingdom. The king was very powerful. He was having everything but still he was not complete. The king was having only 1 Eye and 1 leg. One day he called all his kingdom people and asked all of them to call upon all the best painters so that he can have a beautiful portrait of himself.

All the people of his kingdom were surprised to hear the words of king.

King declared that whoever draw beautiful portrait of King that person will be awarded with big amount of money and appointed as the best painter of the kingdom. Next day all painters were called, and king was sitting in front of them.  All the painters saw the king and thought how could they draw a beautiful portrait of king with the defects in one eye and one leg.

All the painters tried hard to draw beautiful portrait of king but they failed.

They said No to king and took their step back. The king was so depressed after watching all these, then suddenly one painter came up with the picture of king. The painter drew a classic picture of the king. It was the fantastic picture. The picture was shown in front of the kingdom and everybody was surprised.

Guess what was surprising about the picture???

The surprising thing was the painter used the kings weakness as his strength in the picture.

He painted the king AIMING for HUNT. Targeting with ONE Eye Closed and One Leg Bent.

The king and the people of kingdom were shocked with painters creation. The king praises the painter and awarded him with best painter title and the money.

MORAL :“When you think better and think different, the Weakness in the Business eases in accomplishing the Business Goals”