A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy.
"Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."
"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, "these puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money."
The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. "I've got thirty-nine cents. Is that enough to take a look?"
"Sure," said the farmer.
And with that he let out a whistle, "Here, Dolly!" he called.
Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight.
As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball appeared; this One noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up.
"I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to the runt.
The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said, "Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would."
With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, "You see sir, I don't run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands."
The world is full of people who need someone who understands
Friday, February 5, 2010
Connection
It is snowing outside. I am a little depressed because of the chilly winter. Looking through the window I can see a mother and her daughter making a snowman. I am deeply moved by their laugh and happiness. It reminds me of my mother. What is my mother doing now? Is she missing her youngest daughter who lives far away from her? At this moment I miss my mum so much that I remember an unforgettable experience happened years ago. Does she still remember it?
When I was ten, there was not VCD or DVD in my village, so we kids were overjoyed when there would be a movie showed for the whole village. A movie was more attractive than candies and new clothes. Whenever and wherever it showed, I always made every effort to persuade my mum to let me go with my fellows. So when I knew there would be a wonderful movie at that snowing night, actively but unusually, I cleaned the dinning table. Then I begged my mum to let me go. She could not stop me. I can not remember what that movie was about but I exactly remember my strong will to watch it. She asked me to put on her woolen scarf and gloves. Wearing like a penguin, I went to watch the movie. After the movie, my neighbor’s girl suggested that we continue to watch TV in her house. As kids, we always loved doing things together, even having meals. So I agreed without hesitate. I took it for granted that my mum knew where l went and I thought she would not worry about me, therefore I didn’t tell her. I will never forget the moment when I saw my mum in our yard calling my name, with tears on her face. She has looked for me from door to door of every friend of mine. She has run in the snow for nearly two hours, looking for her selfish daughter. Smiling, with tears she looked like a kid when she saw me. She hugged me tightly without blame. From then on, I believe there is a connection between mother and her kids. For that snowing night I felt I really heard my mother’s call.
It is still snowing. The mother and her daughter have finished their snowman. They have left, leaving a beautiful snowman with black eyes and red nose. I determine to make a snowman just like this with my mum this winter vacation. Suddenly I am sure my mum is missing me now, for the mysterious connection. I am so eager to phone my mum that I quicken my pace…
When I was ten, there was not VCD or DVD in my village, so we kids were overjoyed when there would be a movie showed for the whole village. A movie was more attractive than candies and new clothes. Whenever and wherever it showed, I always made every effort to persuade my mum to let me go with my fellows. So when I knew there would be a wonderful movie at that snowing night, actively but unusually, I cleaned the dinning table. Then I begged my mum to let me go. She could not stop me. I can not remember what that movie was about but I exactly remember my strong will to watch it. She asked me to put on her woolen scarf and gloves. Wearing like a penguin, I went to watch the movie. After the movie, my neighbor’s girl suggested that we continue to watch TV in her house. As kids, we always loved doing things together, even having meals. So I agreed without hesitate. I took it for granted that my mum knew where l went and I thought she would not worry about me, therefore I didn’t tell her. I will never forget the moment when I saw my mum in our yard calling my name, with tears on her face. She has looked for me from door to door of every friend of mine. She has run in the snow for nearly two hours, looking for her selfish daughter. Smiling, with tears she looked like a kid when she saw me. She hugged me tightly without blame. From then on, I believe there is a connection between mother and her kids. For that snowing night I felt I really heard my mother’s call.
It is still snowing. The mother and her daughter have finished their snowman. They have left, leaving a beautiful snowman with black eyes and red nose. I determine to make a snowman just like this with my mum this winter vacation. Suddenly I am sure my mum is missing me now, for the mysterious connection. I am so eager to phone my mum that I quicken my pace…
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Home based computer services
Today’s home based businesses and individuals are in need of computer repair services, troubleshooting, computer upgrades and other technology related services. Skilled Los Angeles computer repair technicians start up their own services because usually people think that services offered by such technicians are available at reasonable price. Business can bring success and prosperity by having these home based computer services as their partners. Technicians of such home based computer services should concentrate and attain the certification which can really help them in getting a good name and popularity. Learning from online tutorials is yet another method for technicians to improve their skills. Such online tutorials are always available in net and technicians can perform the exact search to find the best training tutorial.
Technical Experts
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Remote computer repair services
There are many companies in Los Angeles which give online computer repair services and it is our duty to find the exact one which meets our requirements. Once you decide on a Los Angles computer repair company, you can call the company over phone or contact them through the email id provided in the website. The technicians would provide the service by means of remote access to your corporate computer network and resolve the issues without having to be present in your office. Some of the advantages of having remote computer repair services at Los Angeles are
1. It provides most affordable and long term solution. 2. It can resolve the issue quickly 3. They would make you participate while resolving the issues and give required instructions
Home based computer services
Today’s home based businesses and individuals are in need of computer repair services, troubleshooting, computer upgrades and other technology related services. Skilled Los Angeles computer repair technicians start up their own services because usually people think that services offered by such technicians are available at reasonable price. Business can bring success and prosperity by having these home based computer services as their partners. Technicians of such home based computer services should concentrate and attain the certification which can really help them in getting a good name and popularity. Learning from online tutorials is yet another method for technicians to improve their skills. Such online tutorials are always available in net and technicians can perform the exact search to find the best training tutorial.
Technical Experts
Most of the Los Angeles computer repair companies arrange for a technical expert who can directly walk in to the client’s place and know the computer issues in detail. Technical experts usually have complete knowledge in repairing computers, laptops, and all the other peripherals related to computers as they undergo training in computer manufacturing companies. Hence if the issues are complicated and the technical guy is unable to resolve the issue, computer repair companies arrange for technical experts who can resolve the issues easily and quickly. Finally by the above article, one can know the services of Los Angeles computer repair companies. DirectOnsite is a company in Los Angeles that offers the best IT support to their clients through its quality professionals.
If I were a boy again
If I were a boy again, I would practice perseverance more often, and never give up a thing because it was or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results. “There are only two creatures,” says a proverb, “Who can surmount the pyramids ― the eagle and the snail.”
If I were a boy again, I would school myself into a habit of attention; I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand. I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once.
The habit of attention becomes part of our life, if we begin early enough. I often hear grown up people say, “I could not fix my attention on the sermon or book, although I wished to do so”, and the reason is, the habit was not formed in youth.
If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more attention to the cultivation of the memory. I would strengthen that faculty by every possible means, and on every possible occasion. It takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately; but memory soon helps itself, and gives very little trouble. It only needs early cultivation to become a power.
If I were a boy again, I would cultivate courage. “Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless as cowardice,” says a wise author.
We too often borrow trouble, and anticipate that may never appear.” The fear of ill exceeds the ill we fear.” Dangers will arise in any career, but presence of mind will often conquer the worst of them. Be prepared for any fate, and there is no harm to be feared.
If I were a boy again, I would look on the cheerful side. Life is very much like a mirror: if you smile upon it, I smiles back upon you; but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a similar look in return.
Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but of all that come in contact with it. “Who shuts love out, in turn shall be shut out from love.”
Importance of learning very early in life to gain that point where a young boy can stand erect, and decline.
If I were a boy again, I would school myself to say no more often. I might write pages on the doing an unworthy act because it is unworthy.
If I were a boy again, I would demand of myself more courtesy towards my companions and friends, and indeed towards strangers as well. The smallest courtesies along the rough roads of life are like the little birds that sing to us all winter long, and make that season of ice and snow more endurable.
Finally, instead of trying hard to be happy, as if that were the sole purpose of life, I would, if I were a boy again, I would still try harder to make others happy.
If I were a boy again, I would school myself into a habit of attention; I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand. I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once.
The habit of attention becomes part of our life, if we begin early enough. I often hear grown up people say, “I could not fix my attention on the sermon or book, although I wished to do so”, and the reason is, the habit was not formed in youth.
If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more attention to the cultivation of the memory. I would strengthen that faculty by every possible means, and on every possible occasion. It takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately; but memory soon helps itself, and gives very little trouble. It only needs early cultivation to become a power.
If I were a boy again, I would cultivate courage. “Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless as cowardice,” says a wise author.
We too often borrow trouble, and anticipate that may never appear.” The fear of ill exceeds the ill we fear.” Dangers will arise in any career, but presence of mind will often conquer the worst of them. Be prepared for any fate, and there is no harm to be feared.
If I were a boy again, I would look on the cheerful side. Life is very much like a mirror: if you smile upon it, I smiles back upon you; but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a similar look in return.
Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but of all that come in contact with it. “Who shuts love out, in turn shall be shut out from love.”
Importance of learning very early in life to gain that point where a young boy can stand erect, and decline.
If I were a boy again, I would school myself to say no more often. I might write pages on the doing an unworthy act because it is unworthy.
If I were a boy again, I would demand of myself more courtesy towards my companions and friends, and indeed towards strangers as well. The smallest courtesies along the rough roads of life are like the little birds that sing to us all winter long, and make that season of ice and snow more endurable.
Finally, instead of trying hard to be happy, as if that were the sole purpose of life, I would, if I were a boy again, I would still try harder to make others happy.
You Make my Life Worth Living
Life is strange---Things usually happen when least expected to. Just like any other girl in this world, I have buried a dream, or you may call it a fantasy, deep inside my heart, namely, meeting my Mr. Right. So I chose to embrace the heaven-sent romance and savor the sweetness and bitterness of it when it beaconed to me.
Our first meeting happened on a street in a golden season, unexpectedly. At that moment, I was selling newspaper when you passed, whose foreign face captured my attention. I teased you, asking ‘Newspaper’? The gentleman just uttered a few words, ‘No, thank you’. From then on, we met a couple of times and exchange a few friendly messages. Till one day, you came over and started a conversation with me and passed me your business card. Here it goes! That’s how our friendship began! We kept in touch by messages until you confessed your feeling for me, which kept growing day by day. On October 22nd, our hearts and souls were tied together.
At first, I did hold reservation about the fact that you were a foreign man who had gone through two divorces plus being old enough to be my uncle while others around me had some doubts about my choice. Overwhelmed with the bias and pressure, I wanted to take the easy way out rather than face it with courage. My belief was shaking. But your passion, consideration and unconditional love made me drowned in the ocean of love and unable to tear myself from it. When we were together, everything seemed to fall into oblivion. In the end, in stead of running away from it, I succeeded in shaking off the trammels and strengthening my belief---Hold on to it and strive for a better future.
Time glided on, and I have reaped quite a lot of things in this romance---I’ve learn to make compromise; I’ve learn to make allowance for the other; I’ve learned to grow from innocence to maturity. More importantly, I have found my Prince Charming in life.
Tom, I am not a gold digger who hunts for a diamond ring or a luxurious house, but the one who desires genuine sincerity and whole heart from my man. Of course, I know our future is full of uncertainty, and neither of us can get away from the fact that you will leave here one day, but I just can’t bear thinking a life without you, a life that is full of vacuum and a sense of loss and pain.
The world will change with time, but not our romance, which is supposed to be a life-long commitment. My dear, I need bread to live, but I just need you and your love to make my life worth living! I love you!
Our first meeting happened on a street in a golden season, unexpectedly. At that moment, I was selling newspaper when you passed, whose foreign face captured my attention. I teased you, asking ‘Newspaper’? The gentleman just uttered a few words, ‘No, thank you’. From then on, we met a couple of times and exchange a few friendly messages. Till one day, you came over and started a conversation with me and passed me your business card. Here it goes! That’s how our friendship began! We kept in touch by messages until you confessed your feeling for me, which kept growing day by day. On October 22nd, our hearts and souls were tied together.
At first, I did hold reservation about the fact that you were a foreign man who had gone through two divorces plus being old enough to be my uncle while others around me had some doubts about my choice. Overwhelmed with the bias and pressure, I wanted to take the easy way out rather than face it with courage. My belief was shaking. But your passion, consideration and unconditional love made me drowned in the ocean of love and unable to tear myself from it. When we were together, everything seemed to fall into oblivion. In the end, in stead of running away from it, I succeeded in shaking off the trammels and strengthening my belief---Hold on to it and strive for a better future.
Time glided on, and I have reaped quite a lot of things in this romance---I’ve learn to make compromise; I’ve learn to make allowance for the other; I’ve learned to grow from innocence to maturity. More importantly, I have found my Prince Charming in life.
Tom, I am not a gold digger who hunts for a diamond ring or a luxurious house, but the one who desires genuine sincerity and whole heart from my man. Of course, I know our future is full of uncertainty, and neither of us can get away from the fact that you will leave here one day, but I just can’t bear thinking a life without you, a life that is full of vacuum and a sense of loss and pain.
The world will change with time, but not our romance, which is supposed to be a life-long commitment. My dear, I need bread to live, but I just need you and your love to make my life worth living! I love you!
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