Wisdom Nugget: It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn...
A nurse was trying to make a baby sleep at night, but her rich
experience proved fruitless. The baby was crying and simply refused any
incentives. She was exasperated, went to the mistress, and asked for a
book from the shelf.
The mistress said, "What is it for?" The nurse said, "I often see the
master sitting with a book in hand. He soon dozes off even before he
starts reading. I therefore think the book will do the same trick to the
baby.
Though a funny joke from the Anthology Of Chinese Humor, this story
effectively communicates how problems & pressure brings out our
creativity and inventive genius. When your back is to the wall and you
are down on your last dime or the house is on fire and you are stuck on
the last floor of the six story building, it will shock you to know how
many wonderful ideas are locked up in that little brain of yours. Truth
is we learn more when under pressure than when under pleasure, when
under adversity than under prosperity. This what was David meant when he
said "It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn
thy statutes"
There is a legend that an ancient despot, out walking, hurt his foot
upon a sharp pebble. Thereupon, he ordered his ministers forthwith to
have the whole face of the earth covered with leather, that his feet
might be protected.
Knowing the impossibility of carrying out that order, and knowing the
dire consequences of failing, the ministers took counsel despairingly
among themselves.
But one hit upon an inspired solution. After a day's secret work, he
presented to the delighted monarch, not a covered world, but a pair of
leather sandals.
Truth is 'Desperate situations always birth desperate solutions"
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