Just a forward that I received a couple of days back. I really liked the moral, hence posting it here.
One day, I hopped into a taxi and took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly, a black car, jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed the brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. I mean, was really friendly.
So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital." This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck' He explained, "Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. NEVER take it personally.
Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on with the routine life." Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so......love the people who treat you right and pray for the ones who don't!
Life is 10% what you make and 90% how you take..!!!
10 comments:
i am one of those who swear words when i drive.
1st coz- because i am a woman driver, too many people think they can say what they like!
2nd: i am too fast and so i am stressed, so if sum1 is making a mistake on d road- in front of me- its most probable that i will add fire into it! :)
Devaki,
whens your next post? ;)
@Melvin: A lil busy with stuff here, not able to find time to complete the post I started writing last month :-).I'll try to complete it asap!
u'r right in sayin dis...but den not all can escape "Garbage Trucks" all time....sometime wi'out knowing u might get struck real hard by one of dat kind...!!!
I vote for one post a week! Di you can try writing some opinionistic posts... Ideas will start pouring there onwards.. :) Nice blog so far! :)
@Akshay:Thanks for the suggestion.I'm always out of ideas coz there are a limited number of experiences that you can share and once those are exhausted, you don't know what to write next!
this ws a nice post...very thought provoking :)
@Sam: Thanks for finally visiting my blog. After all this time, the one comment you send is on the post which is not mine. This was a forward that I had received once and I posted it here coz I liked it so much ;-). Anyways, looking forward to your comments on the posts written by me! So please take some time and read 1 or 2 :-).
hi, very nice post! I don't know why I selected this post to read in my first visit to ur blog... but I liked it!
Thanks Janaki for putting link on her blog.
:)
@Bhavin: Thanks for visiting my blog and I'm also glad you enjoyed reading the post. But I cannot take credit for this one as it was just a forward that I had received. I would like you to read one of my other posts ( which I can proudly claim to be original creations ;-) )and let me know your comments!
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