old stories in new form

2012-04-13T19:23:00.000+05:30

THE BOY AND THE WOLF

There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, "Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep!"

The villagers came running up the hill to help the boy drive the wolf away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf. The boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces.

"Don't cry 'wolf', shepherd boy," said the villagers, "when there's no wolf!" They went grumbling back down the hill.

Later, the boy sang out again, "Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!" To his naughty delight, he watched the villagers run up the hill to help him drive the wolf away.

When the villagers saw no wolf they sternly said, "Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don't cry 'wolf' when there is NO wolf!"

But the boy just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more.

Later, he saw a REAL wolf prowling about his flock. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, "Wolf! Wolf!"

But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn't come.

At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn't returned to the village with their sheep. They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping.

"There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, "Wolf!" Why didn't you come?"

An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village.

"We'll help you look for the lost sheep in the morning," he said, putting his arm around the youth, "Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!"

2012-04-13T15:41:00.000+05:30

THE LION WITH BAD BREATH

The Lion was in a bad mood. That morning his wife, the Lioness, had told him that his breath smelled, and that perhaps he needed to do something about it. The Lion had pretended not to care, and had roared loudly and angrily just to show the Lioness who was king. Secretly though, he was worried.

So as soon as the Lioness left the den to go about her day's work, the Lion called his three counselors - the Sheep, the Wolf and the Fox.

First he called the Sheep. 'Tell me, Sheep,' growled the Lion, 'do you think my breath smells?'

The Sheep thought the Lion wanted to know the truth. So she bowed low before the Lion and said, 'Your Majesty, your breath smells terrible. In fact, it smells so bad that it is making me feel quite ill.''

This was not what the Lion had wanted to hear. Roaring angrily, and calling the Sheep a fool, he pounced on her and bit her head off.

Then he called the Wolf. 'Tell me, Wolf,' growled the Lion sharpening his claws, 'do you think my breath smells?'

The Wolf had seen the dead Sheep on the way, and he had no plans to end up the same way. He bowed low before the Lion and said, 'Your Majesty! How can you ask me that? Your breath smells as sweet as the flowers in spring, as fresh as the...'

He could not finish what he was going to say. 'Liar!' roared the Lion, and ripped him to pieces.

At last the Lion called the Fox. The Fox came warily; she had seen the dead Sheep and the dead Wolf on the way.

'Tell me, Fox,' growled the Lion, sharpening his claws and yawning widely so that the Fox could see his long sharp teeth, 'do you think my breath smells?'

The Fox coughed and sneezed and blew her nose, and then clearing her throat noisily, said in a hoarse whisper, 'Your Majesty, forgive me. I have such a nasty cold that I cannot smell a thing!'

NOW IN THE ABOVE STORY,

if sheep said truth but not the bitter one, than his life would be saved,
so, instead of saying truth,sheep made him to realize truth, by saying, that sir, your mouth may smell good also but,i am such a small animal is not able to judge you well, so sir please put your paw in front of your mouth and judge yourself that it smells good or bad, and we all fox ,me (sheep), and wolf are your counselors, if we fear to say truth to you than it is not possible for all three of us to counsel you in much better in future, than the wolf said sir i am really very sorry to you as, i showed you that i am not a good counselor, as i tried to hid truth , so please forgive me , i will not repeat this mistake in future. than the fox said sir, as we are your counselors but don,t even trust what we say, after hearing us try to visualize the situation than only you will became a lion king.

After hearing this, not even lion came to about his bed breath, but also got lesson always think before doing and saying anything.

2012-04-08T13:00:00.003+05:30

THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS

A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the goose would lay a golden egg,

which made the couple very rich.

"Just think," said the man's wife, "If we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the

goose, we could be richer much faster."

"You're right," said her husband, "We wouldn't have to wait for the goose to lay her egg

every day."

So, the couple killed the goose and cut her open, only to find that she was just like every

other goose. She had no golden eggs inside of her at all, and they had no more golden eggs.

Hmmmmm........

so here is the new end to the story,

when the man,s wife suggested that , by getting all eggs that are inside inside goose ,

they could be richer much faster, and man thought her wife is right, but the old mother

of the man already knows this is not the wise idea, so she suggested them not to cut

the goose now, but instead hatch the golden egg, if is it possible that goose has all the

golden eggs, than this is also possible that a golden egg will be get hatched and will turn into the same goose as her mother which lay the golden egg than that goose will also lay the golden egg.

Hearing this the man and wife thinked twice, why not try this, so next day when goose laid t

golden egg ,they hatched it, an dto their surprise this goose also lay the golden egg just like her mother goose, so again the man and his wife got the lesson that tha tdon,t fall into greed, think twice before doing anything, and if you are still in confusion take advice from elders, or one who is expert.

so here is the happy ending..........

2012-04-06T15:46:00.001+05:30

HARE AND THE TORTOISE

Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster. They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and started off the race.

The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time.

Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he'd sit under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race.
He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ.

The hare woke up and realised that he'd lost the race. The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins the race.
This is the version of the story that we've all grown up with

well as to the hare and the tortoise story the question arises why hare took rest in mid of the race ? because the race was not challenging enough and so he became complacent. He had agreed for race where he had everything to lose and nothing to gain. Even if he had won the race he would not have gained anything, However when he lost to tortoise he had lost all his reputation in one day, ” In the race tortoise had everything to gain and nothing to lose. If the tortoise had lost, no one would have ridiculed him because he was anyway expected to lose. Tortoise became an instant hero when he won the race. ” She continued “After that Hare thanked the Tortoise and ran races with other Hares and WON. Lessons that we can learn from the story are”:

Undertake a task based on what you stand to personally gain or lose. If the potential gain is not significant, ignore that task. Do not waste your energy.
Pick only those tasks that challenge or stretch your abilities. Otherwise you will quickly lose interest.
Do not rest till your task is complete for it is no use if you do not complete the tasks

BUT AFTER ALL THIS SELF ANALYSIS HARE AGAIN GET READY FOR THE RACE, LET,S SEE WHAT HAPPENED.

Do you know the hare bet the race again?
Read this Part 2 of the story.
After the hare lost the race, heads of all the hare were down with shame and disgust.
A conference was called and the looser was snubbed in front of all.it was decided to invite the tortoise again to race.
Best runner among the hare was chosen and specially instructed by the seniors not to relax and sleep.
Getting the invitation and hearing about the coference, unrest and disturbance spread among the tortoise lines.
They too held a conference (very secret), and it was decided to accept the challenge and race with the hare and no matter how...
win it to keep the pride of the tortoise.
Now how to win the race with a non relaxy, non sleepy hare? A big question???
not that big, an old tortoise raised his neck and addressed the young.Select similar skin tortoise among thyselves.
Hide them on every two hundred meter in a bush.(applause).
The race began.hare started off with a happy note and so did the tortoise. w
hen the hare left him far behinde and reched a 200m stone he saw the tortoise moving ahead of him.
Surprised hare crossed him again whistling.every 200 m he found the tortoise moving ahead again and yet again.
thinking i never knew they run so fast and get ahead of me with even a blink of my eyes, he crossed the tortoise again and began the final 200 m run.
OHHHHH at the finish point he again saw the tortoise crossing the finish line ahead of him.......... (applause)......

Morale 1:SLOW steady still wins the race.BUT fast and consistent will always beat slow and steady
Morale 2 :in the cycle lane is better than the speedy lanes which often remain jammed and you are prone to the accidents.
Morale 3: team work makes you win always. pooling resources and working as a team will always beat individual performers;
Morale 4: work to your competencies
Morale 5: compete against the situation. Not against a rival
stop competing against a rival and instead start competing against the situation, we perform far better..

ONE MORE END IS THERE,

when again new race is announced between tortoise and hare, tortoise trumbeled in fear as, he knows well that he won the race only because hare slept down in between race, and he is sure, that hare will not repeat his mistake again, so the most awaited said day for race has come, and this time hare didn,t go to sleep and run with his full calibre, as he want all and most important himself that he is the best, and he can do, so hare got a chance to show his strength, adnproved fast and consisitent always wins the race.

but somehow always act like a tortoise , be ready to grab opportunities,as no one knows when goodluck knocks at your door.

wake up!

LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKEWS, DON,T REPEAT THEM...................

2012-04-06T12:45:00.000+05:30

ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

One summer day a grasshopper was singing and chirping and hopping about. He was having a wonderful time. He saw an ant who was busy gathering and storing grain for the winter. bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest

“Stop doing all this toiling, come and talk to me,” said the grasshopper. “We can sing some songs and dance a while.”

“Oh no,” said the ant. “Winter is coming. I am storing up food for the winter. I think you should do the same.”

“Oh, I can’t be bothered,” said the grasshopper. “Winter is a long time off. There is plenty of food.at the present, think of present, only if you can enjoy present than only you will be able to enjoy future” So the grasshopper continued to dance and sing and chip and the ant continued to work.

When winter came the grasshopper had no food and was starving. He went to the ant’s house and asked, “Can I have some wheat or maybe a few kernels of corn. Without it I will starve,” whined the grasshopper.

“You danced last summer,” said the ants in disgust. “You can continue to dance.” And they gave him no food.Then the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for days of need. and tried to sale his guitar outside the ant,s nest.

suddenly an idea popped in his head why not to sell his voice instead of guitar, so he knocked at every door to find out is there someone in this great winter who like to sing and dance on his songs and in return of his service he want some food. ants liked the idea and grasshopper started singing and all ants danced whole winter. this winter became the greatest winter because of grasshopper the musician. he enjoyed his present time into a good work, got mastery over it and by using his brain and skills he earned his food. so, its nothing bad to be a grasshopper, grasshopper enjoyed both his present and future , but only involving in good work. grasshopper intervined his skill and enterpreneurship and ran into a buisness, today he trained several animal in music and dance.