Wisdom Nuggets: Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
- Richard Dawkins
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EVER so often, when we stretch
forth a benevolent hand and reach out to someone, we never know whose life we
could be saving. This is truly one of life’s greatest beauties.
Tutu was almost late for an interview, and feared that lateness
could disqualify him from getting this dream job. He quickly purchased a ticket
and got himself a seat. Then before long came this elderly man, just after the
bus had been filled. The man was looking so bewildered and despondent. The man
approached the lady on the seat by the door, explaining to her how he is needed
urgently in the hospital for an immediate blood transfusion for his only son
who was at the verge of death. The lady turned down the man, pointing out that
she was in a hurry somewhere. Touched by the man’s plight, the young man obliged
the elderly man, gave up his seat and alighted from the bus. The bus had hardly
left the park, before the he was told that, that was the last bus for the day.
But as he stood by the road outside the park feeling like the biggest fool, a
vehicle pulled over, whose driver needed to get to exactly the same place where
the young man’s interview was taking place, but the diver didn’t know his way
around. The driver of the car, who ended up being a cousin to the MD of the
company where the young man was scheduled for the interview, simply took the
young man straight in to his uncle’s office and narrated his experience with
the young man. The MD felt so moved that the young man had helped his cousin,
that he simply gave him the job.
Every time we give up something, we have no idea
what we are securing in the future. He just wanted to help save a life and
ended up securing a good job on a platter of gold.
This is how Mahatma Ghandi
puts it. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service
of others."
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