Sunday, December 9, 2007 . 8:07 AM
I came across this email by one of my professor in NTU. It was about a story call “Frogs” which I find it good to share with all of you. Here it goes…Once upon a time, there was a bunch of tiny frogs who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants…
The race began…
Honestly:
No one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower. You heard statement such as:
“Oh, Way too difficult!!”
“They will never make it to the top!!” or “Not a chance they will succeed. The tower is too high!”
The tiny frogs began collapsing one by one… except for those who in a fresh tempo, were climbing higher and higher… The crowd continued to yell,” It is too difficult!! No one will make it!”
More tiny frogs got tired and gave up… but one continued higher and higher and higher… This one wouldn’t give up!
At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower, except for the one tiny frog who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top! Then all the other tin frogs naturally wanted to find out how this one frog managed to do it? A contestant asked this tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach a goal?
It turned out… That the winner was DEAF!!!
The wisdom of this story is:
Never listen to other people’s tendencies to be negative or pessimistic… No because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you – the ones you have in your heart. Always think of the power of the words. Everything you hear and read will affect your thinking and action!
Therefore:
Always be … POSITIVE!
And above all:
Be deaf when people tell you that you cannot fulfil your dreams!
Reflection:
In our life, we are often being discouraged and affected by negative words from others. Sometimes, we take it to heart seriously and believe that it’s true that we are not good enough to fulfil our dream and because of that, we lowered down our goal. We start to lose hope and motivation in the things we do.
Therefore, words are powerful. The words we read and listen will strongly affect our action. So, today I encourage all of you to always have a positive thinking and not to be affected by what others say about you. In another way round, we should also learn to speak words of encouragement to our family and friends. Give them words of motivation! You may never know that your words can impact one person to fulfil his or her dream!
“To the world, you might be one person; but to one person you might be the world.”