Inspiration - A good story !!!

July 21, 2009

" Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past… "

This is a story of an elderly carpenter who had been working for a contractor

for the past 53 years. He had built many beautiful houses but now as he was

getting old, he wanted to retire and lead a leisurely life with his family. So,

he goes to the contractor and tells him about his plan of retiring. The

contractor feels sad at the prospect of losing a good worker but agrees to the

plan because the carpenter had indeed become too fragile for the tough building

work. But as a last request, he asks the old carpenter to construct just one

last house.

The old man agrees and starts working but his heart was not in his work anymore.

He had lost the motivation towards work. So, he resorted to shoddy workmanship

and constructed the house half-heartedly. After the house was built, the

contractor came to visit his employee's last piece of work. After inspecting the

house, he handed over the front door keys to the carpenter and said, " This is

your new house. My gift to you. " The carpenter was shocked and upset. Had he

known that he was building his own house, he would have done a better job! " .

Think of ourselves as the carpenter. Though we work hard every day, we put our

least to some work, which we don't like and get shocked at a situation we have

created for ourselves and try to figure out why we didn't do it differently.

Learn to enjoy your responsibilities with pleasure and not with pain. " Life is a

do-it-yourself project " . Do your job enthusiastically and with devotion, a

positive output and a pleasing life will certainly be on your way.

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