Saturday, February 19, 2011

Loyalty

Once upon a time, there was an old man, living in a village far from the city. This old man was very much interested in keeping beautiful birds. One day he saw a beautiful bird for sale while passing by a bird-shop, so he decided to buy that bird. After a long discussion and bargains with the shopkeeper, the old man paid a lot of money for the mentioned bird.

The old man took the bird home and caged him immediately. The bird was caged for many years and was fed regularly with nutritious food. The bird was really bored of life, but he was heartily singing.

Some of the free birds used to come near to the caged bird and used to eat the feed scattered by the caged bird. One day the door of the cage was left open mistakenly. But the bird didn’t escape from his cage. He just came out played with other free birds, and then went back to his cage.

The wife of the old man saw this scene. She was quite surprised hence she narrated the story to her husband. This behavior of the bird shocked the old man too.

The old man quickly came to the caged bird and asked him, “why didn’t you run away from the cage?” the bird replied, “this was a good opportunity for me to prove my loyalty, you have been feeding me with good and nutritious food for the past so many years, and you are the one who is taking care of me, therefore I shouldn’t forget your sympathy and pities though you have deprived me of my freedom”

Moral of the story
Dear readers;

We human beings play different roles in our life such as a father, mother, sister, brother, son, friend, husband, wife etc. At every stage of life we receive and provide some sort of support to each other therefore we all are supposed to be loyal and stand by each other. And don’t forget the goodness of each other and don’t retaliate for a tiny unjust action of a friend/any relative.

Original story: Pashto language
Translated by; Barai Mobarez

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Building your career!

Dear reader, according to you; is it easy or hard to find out a perfect and unique job of your choice? And do you think you know yourself thoroughly? If the answer is yes, then you are perfect and don’t need any advice. Go ahead with whatever you do!!! And if the answer is no, then, you got to read my experience!

First of all let me tell you that knowing oneself is not easy. It may so happen that by the time you understand yourself it would have been too late.

Sometimes back I was thinking that choosing a career is pretty easy! Why? Because I thought of good income only nothing else and I thought that, it is the only reason why we are concerned about our careers and the future.
The job that paid me enough was the best for me.

I thought money is the sole means of happiness and satisfaction. I am not trying to say/prove that money is not good or money doesn’t pay off. As a matter of fact it was, it is and it will remain one of the most essential factors of human race satisfaction. It does work but for a very short period of time, I admit this.

In my point of views once your basic/physiological, safety and social needs are satisfied then you will realize that the kind of job/work you do doesn’t suit you (doesn’t not fulfill your esteem and self-actualization needs). And it will be a sort of disgusting and boring field you are in.

I myself knocked numerous doors and got plenty of firsthand experience from doing various jobs. And I finally came to know that yes, there has to be something special that can please and attract you apart from money, so that you get satisfied from whatever you do. Al though I had read various novels that said; “Do what you love!” but unfortunately I didn’t adopt this strategy.

And it is very true that you have to do whatever you love and success will follow you up. If you do things you don’t love you will be disheartened and disappointed very soon. And finally you will find yourself in the soup and realize that you have wasted some of your life’s precious time.

No one can succeed unless he/she has the consistency, resistance, stability of mind, perfect selection and last but not the least love and affection for what he/she does.

My experience says; please do things for your own sake not for anything/anyone else. Do whatever you love and no matter how small it may be.

Do something in which you think you are better than others. Success will follow you up, like your shadow does you.

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