The Blind Boy

Soul_jyot · #1 (**permalink**) 19-Dec-2006, 21:37 PM

The Blind Boy

An insightful story tells of a blind boy who sat on the
steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up
a sign that read: "I am blind, please help." However,
people were tossing very few coins in his hat.
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/spiritual-articles/14741-the-blind-boy.html

One man stopped, took a few coins from his pocket, and
dropped them into the hat. He then picked up the boy's
sign. He turned it around and wrote some words. Then,
he set the sign on the walk so that everyone walking by
would see the new words he had written.

Soon, people began stopping and crowding around the
boy. Before long, the hat was filled with coins!

That afternoon, the man who had changed the sign
returned to see how his young friend was doing. The boy
recognized the man's voice and said, "You were the
man who changed my sign this morning. My hat is
overflowing with coins. What did you write?"

The man replied, "I only wrote the truth. I said what
you said, but I said it in a different way."

The man had written: "Today is a beautiful day and
I cannot see it."

-Steve Brunkhorst

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and
the blind can see." - Mark Twain
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=14741

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vaapaaraa · #2 (**permalink**) 29-Dec-2006, 12:35 PM

very nice