President Xi Jing Peng of China said:
When I was a small child , I was
very selfish, always grabbing the
best for myself. Slowly, everyone
left me and I had no friends. I didn’t think it was my fault but instead criticized others.
My father gave me 3 lessons to
help me in life.
One day, my father cooked 2 bowls of noodles put the 2 bowls on the table. One bowl has one egg on top and the other bowl does not have any egg on top. He said ”My child, You choose. Which bowl do u want”. Eggs were hard to come by those days! Only get to eat eggs during festivals or New Year.
Ofcourse I chose the bowl with
egg! As we started eating. I was
congratulating myself on my wise
choice/decision and wallop up the
egg. Then to my surprise as my
father ate his noodles, there were
TWO eggs at the bottom of his
bowl beneath the noodles! I
regretted so much! And scolded
myself for being too hasty in my
decision. My father smiled and said to me, ”My child. You must
remember what your eyes see may not be true. If you intend on taking advantage of people, you will end up losing!”
The next day, my father again
cooked 2 bowls of noodles: one
bowl with an egg on top and the
other bowl with no egg on top.
Again, he put the two bowls on the table and said to me, ”My child. You choose. Which bowl do u want?”
This time I am smarter. I chose the
bowl without any egg on top. To
my surprise, as I separated the
noodles on top, there was not even a single egg at the bottom of the bowl! Again my father smiled and said to me, ”My child, you must not always rely on experiences because sometimes, life can cheat u or play tricks on u. But u must not be too annoyed or sad, just treat this as learning a lesson .
You cannot Learn this from textbooks.
The third day, my father again
cooked 2 bowls of noodles, again
one bowl with an egg on top and
the other bowl with no egg on top.
He put the 2 bowls on the table
and again said to me, ”My child.
You choose. Which bowl do u
want?”. This time, I told my father,
”Dad, u choose first. You are the
head of the family and contributed the most to the family. ”My father did not decline and chose the bowl with one egg on top. As I eat my bowl of noodles, Sure in my heart that there is no egg inside the bowl. To my surprise! There were TWO eggs at the bottom of the bowl.
My father smiled at me with love in his eyes, ”My child, u must
remember! When u think for the
good of others, good things will
always naturally happen to u!”
I always remember these 3
sentences of my father and lived
and do my business accordingly.
True enough, my business was a
roaring， success.
Xi Jing Peng
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Moral Lesson:
Sometimes What You see can be Deceiving!.
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Cc. Mosho2good

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