Value Education

Value Education

A young woman was sitting at her dining table, worried about taxes to be paid, house-work to be done and to top it all, her family was coming over for the festival celebration the next day. Her mother had always taught her to be happy and thankful to God. She was not feeling very happy and thankful at that time. As she turned her gaze sideways, she noticed her young daughter scribbling energetically into her notebook.

                                                                    
“My value education teacher has asked us to write a paragraph on “Negative Thanks giving” for homework today” said the daughter. “She asked us to write down things that we are thankful for, things that make us feel not so good in the beginning, but turn out to be good after all.” With curiosity, the mother peeked into the book. This is what her daughter wrote:

I’m thankful for Final Exams, because that means school is almost over.

I’m thankful for bad-tasting medicine, because it helps me feel better.

I’m thankful for waking up to alarm clocks, because it means I’m still alive.

It then dawned on the mother, that she had a lot of things to be thankful for!  

She had to pay taxes and that meant she was fortunate to be employed.
     
She had house-work to do and that meant she had her own home to live in.
      
She had to cook for her family and that meant she had a family with whom she could celebrate.

We generally complain about the negative things in life but we fail to look at the positive side of it. What is positive in your negatives?

We all should always look at the better part of life to make it great. I am happy and blessed and wish the same for you all.

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