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One morning,
a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet .He held a sign
which said, "I am blind. Please help me."
There
were only a few coins(硬币) in the hat. A man was walking
by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then
took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back
so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.
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 ask, "Are you the one who changed my sign
in the morning? What did you write?"
The man
said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way."
What he
had written was, "Today is a beautiful day, but I can't see it."
Do you
think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course
both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people
to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they
were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because
he was blind.
The first
sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were
so lucky that they were not blind.
There
are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first
is: Treasure(珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less.
Try your best to help those who need your help.
The second
is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
