Subject: Is this where we are heading to?
A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-yearold son waiting for him at the door.
"Daddy, may I ask you a question?"
"Yeah sure, what is it?" replied the man. "Daddy, how much do you make anhour?"
"That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?" the man saidangrily.
"I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?"pleaded the little boy."If you must know, I make $20 an hour."
"Oh," the little boy replied, with his head down. Looking up, he said,"Daddy, may I please borrow $10?"
The father was furious, "If the only reason you asked that is so you canborrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then youmarch yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why youare being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childishbehavior."
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man satdown and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. Howdare he ask such questions only to get some money?
After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think:Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and hereally didn't ask for money very often. The man went tothe door of the little boy's room and opened the door.
"Are you asleep, son?" He asked.
"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.
"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier," said the man,"It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the$10you asked for."
The little boy sat straight up, smiling. "Oh, thank you daddy!" He yelled.Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. Theman, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again.The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at his father.
"Why do you want more money if you already have some?" the fathergrumbled.
Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied."Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come homeearly tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you."
Share this story with someone you like.... But even better, share $20worth of time with someone you love. It's just a short reminder to all ofyou working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through ourfingers without having spent sometime with those who really matter to us,those close to our hearts.
If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easilyreplace us in a matter of days. But the family & friends we leftbehind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come tothink of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family anunwise investment indeed.
(Dont u feel its true???... Wanna say it to u buddy but then not able to catch hold of u...:-(
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