Hello peeps, I stumbled into this
story on the internet and would want to share it
One young
man went to apply for a
Managerial position in a big
company.
He passed the initial interview,
and now
would meet the director for the
final
Interview.
The director discovered from his
CV that the youth’s
academic achievements
were excellent.
He asked, "Did you obtain any
Scholarships in school…?" The youth
answered “NO”.
"Who paid for your school
fees…?" "My parents
“, he replied.
“Where
did they work……?”
“They
worked as clothes cleaner.”
The director requested the youth
to
Show his hands.
The youth showed a pair of hands
that were smooth and perfect.
“Have
you ever helped your parents?
Wash the clothes?”
“Never,
my parents always wanted
me to study and read more books.
Besides, my parents can wash
clothes faster than me."
The director said, “I have a request.
When you go home today, go and
clean
your parents hands, and then see
me
tomorrow morning."
The youth felt dejected. When he
went back home, he asked his
parents to let him clean their
hands. His
parents felt strange, happy but
with
mixed feelings, they showed their
hands
to their son.
The youth cleaned their hands
slowly. His tear fell as he did that. It was the first
time he noticed that his parents
hands
were so wrinkled, and there were
so
many bruises in their hands. Some
bruises were so painful that they
winced
when he touched it. This was the
first time the youth realized
that it was this pair of hands
that
washed the clothes everyday to
enable
him to pay the school fees. The
bruises
in the hands were the price that
the
parents had to pay for his
education, his school activities and his future.
After cleaning his parents hands,
the
youth quietly washed all the
remaining
clothes for them. That night,
parents and
son talked for a very long time.
Next morning, the youth went to
the director’s
office. The director asked:
“Can
you tell me what have you done
and learned yesterday in your
house?”
The youth answered, "I
cleaned my
parents hand, and also finished
cleaning
all the remaining clothes. I now
know what appreciation is. Without my
parents, I would not be who I am
today… By helping my parents, only now
do I realize how difficult and
tough it is
to get something done on your own
And
I have come to appreciate the
importance and value of helping one’s
family."
The director said, “This is what I am
looking for in a manager. I want
to
recruit a person who can
appreciate the
help of others, a person who knows
the sufferings of others to get things done,
and a person who would not put
money
as his only goal in life.”
“You
are hired.”
A child, who has been protected
and
habitually given whatever he
wanted, would develop an “entitlement
mentality” and would always put
himself first. He would be
ignorant of his
parent’s efforts. If we are this kind
of
protective parents, are we really
showing love or are we destroying
our children instead…?
You can let your child live in a
big house,
eat a good meal, learn piano,
watch on a
big screen TV.
BUT...
When you are cutting grass,
watering the plants, cleaning up the house or after
a meal washing the plates and
bowls,
etc. then please let them
experience it
together with their brothers and
sisters.
It is not because you do not have
money
to hire a maid, but it is because
you want to love them in a right way. You
want them to understand, no matter
how rich their parents are, one
day their
hair will grow grey, same as the
parents
of that young person.
The most important thing is your
child learns how to appreciate the effort and
experience the difficulty and
learns the
need to work with others to get things
done.
PLEASE share this story…it may help
someone's future.
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