Inspired by a Chinese Story:
Is your child less than an achiever at school? Is your son less talented than your daughter? if you've sometimes found yourself despairing that your child just doesnt seem to measure up to the others here's a short inspirational tale by an unknown author.
A water bearer in china had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pile, which he carried across his neck.
one of the pits had a crack in it, while the other port was perfect and always dilivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the from to the house, the cracked pot arrived on half full.
For a full two years, this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots of water to his house. of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accompliashments, for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imprefection and misreabale that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream "i am ashamed of myself, beacuse ths crack in my side causes my water to leak out all the way back to your house".
The bearer said to the pot "Did you notice that there are flowers of your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?. Thats beacause i have always known about your flaw, Iso i planted flower seeds on your side of the path and every day while we walk back you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.
Without you being just the way you are we would not have such beauty".
Each of us has our own unique flaw but its the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very intresting and rewarding.
You have just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.
-- Deepa
Is your child less than an achiever at school? Is your son less talented than your daughter? if you've sometimes found yourself despairing that your child just doesnt seem to measure up to the others here's a short inspirational tale by an unknown author.
A water bearer in china had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pile, which he carried across his neck.
one of the pits had a crack in it, while the other port was perfect and always dilivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the from to the house, the cracked pot arrived on half full.
For a full two years, this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots of water to his house. of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accompliashments, for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imprefection and misreabale that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream "i am ashamed of myself, beacuse ths crack in my side causes my water to leak out all the way back to your house".
The bearer said to the pot "Did you notice that there are flowers of your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?. Thats beacause i have always known about your flaw, Iso i planted flower seeds on your side of the path and every day while we walk back you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.
Without you being just the way you are we would not have such beauty".
Each of us has our own unique flaw but its the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very intresting and rewarding.
You have just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.
-- Deepa
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