Celebrate Reading…..
A turtle family decided to go on a picnic. Turtles, being naturallyslow about things, took seven years to prepare for their outing. Finally the turtle family left home looking for a suitable place for their outing. During the second year of their journey they found a place ideal for them at last! For about six months they cleaned up the area, unpacked the picnic basket, and completed the arrangements.
Then they discovered they had forgotten the salt. A picnic without salt would be a disaster, they all agreed. After a lengthy discussion, the youngest turtle was chosen to retrieve the salt from home.
He agreed to go on one condition: That no one would eat until he returned The family consented and the little turtle left. Three years passed and the little turtle had not returned. Five years….six years… then on the seventh year of his absence, the oldest turtle could no longer contain his hunger. He announced that he was going to eat and begun to unwrap a sandwich.
At that point the little turtle suddenly popped out from behind a tree shouting, “SEE I knew you wouldn’t wait. Now I am not going to go get the salt.”
“Some of us waste our time waiting for people to live up to our expectations to finally realize that it is better to have done it ourselves than to have waited for someone to complete.”
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June 11th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Nice one to start with!!
I didnt know if I should laugh or feel bad for the old tortoise..
Its very important to be self dependent.. I have realised it and started believing more strongly on it as I spend more and more days away from home..
Its always good to have someone around you.. who you know is ready to do something(may be everytihng) for u but.. very true.. to avoid old tortoise’s condition.. we must always be ready to do everything by ourselves..
Also.. Its always ideal not to have expectactions.. But Actual and ideal is always different and so I believe its impossible to not to have expectations from anything(living or non living).. I feel expectations are not only about getting work done.. Goes way beyond it.. But yes philosophically speaking “The lesser we expect, the happier we are”
July 7th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I always do remember my Grand mother, as she used to say “Time and tide wait for none”. I used to realize this only after the arrival of my exams but now when I ponder and memorize my previous days I am taken aback. I can’t arrange all the things together, this makes me shudder.
We think that we haven’t change, I don’t understand that why we lie to our self. Sometimes I feel myself a complete another personality resisting the fact that time hasn’t changed a bit.
When I ponder of my schools days it showed me how fast our clocks are moving their needles, even when the batteries were off. I wonder if I can work hard and achieve what I want in this short life-time. There are so many things to be done in this world and how time passes by making efforts to change or to begin changes.
I wish if every second unwinds for few occasions, and we can rectify things in a better way as we always wanted or regretted for. Time is precious, an old say but absolutely true, which is only realized when it passes by.
September 11th, 2009 at 9:53 am
hey Sadhan!
This story has multiple messages and one can ponder often on the absurdities as well as the wisdom of the story!
Ranjani