The Best Contribution You Can Make

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The Best Contribution You Can Make

 

An elderly couple retired to the countryside - to a small isolated cottage

overlooking some rugged and rocky heath land.

 

One early morning the woman saw from her window a young man dressed in working

clothes walking on the heath, about a hundred yards away. He was carrying a

spade and a small case, and he disappeared from view behind a copse of trees.

 

The woman thought no more about it but around the same time the next day she

saw the man again, carrying his spade and a small case, and again he disappeared

behind the copse.

 

The woman mentioned this to her husband, who said he was probably a farmer or

gamekeeper setting traps, or performing some other country practice that would

be perfectly normal, and so not to worry.

 

However after several more sightings of the young man with the spade over the

next two weeks the woman persuaded her husband to take a stroll - early, before

the man tended to arrive - to the copse of trees to investigate what he was

doing.

 

There they found a surprisingly long and deep trench, rough and uneven at one

end, becoming much neater and tidier towards the other end.

 

" How strange, " the old lady said, " Why dig a trench here - and in such

difficult rocky ground? " and her husband agreed.

 

Just then the young man appeared - earlier than his usual time.

 

" ;You're early, " said the old woman, making light of their obvious curiosity,

" We wondered what you were doing - and we also wondered what was in the case. "

 

" I'm digging a trench, " said the man, who continued, realizing a bigger

explanation was appropriate, " I'm actually learning how to dig a good trench,

because the job I'm being interviewed for later today says that experience is

essential - so I'm getting the experience. And the case - it's got my lunch in

it. "

 

He got the job.

 

Don & #700;t wait for anything. Start today if you want to be successful in your

life. The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself. Only

the player with the initiative has the right to attack. Times will change for

the better when you change. So start taking initiatives whether it is at your

work place or at your home. Initiatives are first step towards Self Development.