Jahnava Nitai Das Posted December 4, 2000 Report Share Posted December 4, 2000 I don't know who has written this. It has been going around in the email. It does offer some interesting points to ponder. [begin message] A thanksgiving thought The following is something to ponder: If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world. If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death ... you are more blessed than three billion people in the world. If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States. If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful ... you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not. If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder ... you are blessed because you can offer healing touch. If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all. Have a good day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are. God bless you and your family this day and always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animesh Posted January 30, 2001 Report Share Posted January 30, 2001 >If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder ... you are blessed because you can offer healing touch. It is very true keeping in mind the disaster in Gurjarat and also the daily sufferings of so many people in India. I just want to mention a poem by Emily Dickenson. I love this poem:- "If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life from aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto its nest again, I shall not live in vain." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dasha Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 This poem is very beautiful, but what to say about somebody whom each effort he does in order to help a nearby parent is taken in such a wrong way that it is understood to be an attack ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animesh Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 Hi Dasha, Let me first understand your question correctly. Are you talking about a situation when somebody helps others and, in turn, gets bad behaviour? Please give an example. Then I would try to put some light on this matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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