Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Per Hour


(Puerto Galera Philippines Sunset)

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated,to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at thedoor.SON: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?"

DAD: "Yeah sure, what is it?" replied the man.
SON: "Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"
DAD: "That's none of your business. Why do you asksuch a thing?" the man said angrily.
SON: "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much doyou make an hour?"
DAD: "If you must know, I make 1000 peso an hour.""Oh," the little boy replied, with his head down.
Looking up, he said,"Daddy, may I please borrow 500 peso?"
The father was furious, "If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed.
Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday forsuch this childish behavior."
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut thedoor.
The man sat down and started to get even angrier aboutthe little boy's questions. How dare he ask suchq uestions 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 withthat 500 and he really didn't ask for money veryoften. The man went to the door of the little boy'sroom 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 youearlier," said the man.
"It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the 500 you asked for."The little boy sat straight up, smiling.
"Oh, thank you daddy!" He yelled.Then, reaching under his pillow h e pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again.
The little boy slowly counted out his money, and thenlooked up at his father.
"Why do you want more money if you already have some?"the father grumbled. "Because I didn't have enough,but now I do," the little boy replied.
"Daddy, I have 1000 peso now. Can I buy an hour ofyour time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you."

Share this story with someone you like....But even better, share 1000 worth of time with someone you...........love. It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent sometime with those who really matter to us, those closeto our hearts.If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter ofdays............. . But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more intowork than to ...............our family.Nothing is Impossible. Even impossible spells "i m possible



1 Comments:

At 6:56 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Enjoyed a lot!
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