Fwd: "STORY OF APPRECIATION"

[Surapaneni Vamsi chowdary]

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From: SATYA ATLURI <satyanaray...@gmail.com>
Date: 15 November 2010 09:16
Subject: "STORY OF APPRECIATION"
To: Mr Harsha Atluri <harsha...@yahoo.com>, Bhavani Atluri <bhavani...@yahoo.com>, raga91 <rag...@gmail.com>, Priyanka Adusumilli <priya...@gmail.com>, sudha paturi <patur...@gmail.com>, avp...@gmail.com, Sri B Kosaraju <deepa.k...@gmail.com>, "Madala, Sridhar" <sridhar...@citi.com>, madala_...@hotmail.com, addanki....@gmail.com, Abdul Subhan <subhan...@ongc.co.in>, ari...@gmail.com, bnv8p...@yahoo.co.in, Rajasekhar B <brs12...@yahoo.com>, D VENKATESWARA RAO <dvrao...@yahoo.co.in>, Reddy GN <redd...@ongc.co.in>, enne...@hotmail.com, Allamraju Rama Gopala Rao <rgr...@gmail.com>, "S. Gopinath" <sgopi...@gmail.com>, Venkateswara Prasad Hanumara <prasad....@gmail.com>, Joseph Amalrajan <josep...@yahoo.com>, SURAPANENI phani krishna Chowdary <phanikrishn...@gmail.com>, Murthy KVS <kv_m...@yahoo.com>, Murali Krishna <krish...@yahoo.com>, "M.S.Tonk" <mst...@gmail.com>, Mahalakshmi SPV <spv_mah...@yahoo.com>, maduri j <jma...@gmail.com>, nbr prasad <pras...@gmail.com>, Ramana v Pamidighantam <pamidig...@gmail.com>, Bhanu Prasad Pokkunuri <bpokk...@yahoo.co.in>, Pattabhi Rama Rao Paluri <pal...@yahoo.com>, adiyala raghavender <raghu....@gmail.com>, Rakesh D <rakes...@yahoo.co.in>, DrThakur AKS <thaku...@ongcl.com>, Tejbal IR <tejb...@yahoo.co.in>, suman venigalla <sumanve...@gmail.com>, vasudevan kannan <vas...@yahoo.com>, vijaychowdary_surapaneni <vijaychowdar...@yahoo.co.in>, sujana vallabhaneni <suja...@yahoo.co.in>, Rao Vallabhaneni <r...@technosmarts.com>, Surendranath Vennam <vsn...@aero.iisc.ernet.in>, Surapaneni Vamsi chowdary <svam...@gmail.com>, Venkat Aekka <vae...@ford.com>

Translated from Chinese.

 

> This is a powerful message in our modern society. We seemed
> to have lost our bearing & our sense of direction.
>
> **Story of Appreciation**
>
> One young academically excellent person went to apply for a
> managerial position in a big company.
> He passed the first interview, the director did the
> last interview, made
> the last decision.
> The director discovered from the CV that the
> youth's academic
> achievements were excellent all the way, from the secondary
> school until the postgraduate research, never had a year
> when he did not score.
> The director asked, "Did you obtain any
> scholarships in school?" the
> youth answered "none".
> The director asked, " Was it your father who paid
> for your school fees?" The youth answered, "My
> father passed away when I was one year old, it was my mother
> who paid for my school fees.
> The director asked, " Where did your mother
> work?" The youth answered, "My mother worked as
> clothes cleaner. The director requested the youth to show
> his hands. The youth showed a pair of hands that were smooth
> and perfect.
> The director asked, " Have you ever helped your
> mother wash the clothes
> before?" The youth answered, "Never, my mother
> always wanted me to study and read more books. Furthermore,
> my mother can wash clothes faster than me.
> The director said, "I have a request. When you go
> back today, go and
> clean your mother's hands, and then see me tomorrow
> morning.*
> The youth felt that his chance of landing the job was
> high. When he went back, he happily requested his mother to
> let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange, happy but
> with mixed feelings, she showed her hands to the kid.
> The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly. His
> tear fell as he did that. It was the first time he noticed
> that his mother's hands were so wrinkled, and there were
> so many bruises in her hands. Some bruises were so painful
> that his mother
> shivered when they were cleaned with water.
> This was the first time the youth realized that it was
> this pair of hands that washed the clothes everyday to
> enable him to pay the school fee. The bruises in the
> mother's hands were the price that the mother had to pay
> for his
> graduation, academic excellence and his future.
> After finishing the cleaning of his mother hands, the
> youth quietly washed all the remaining clothes for his
> mother.
> That night, mother and son talked for a very long
> time.
> Next morning, the youth went to the director's
> office.
> The Director noticed
> the tears in the youth's eyes, asked: " Can you
> tell me
> what have you done and learned yesterday in your
> house?"
> The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's
> hand, and also finished
> cleaning all the remaining clothes'
> The Director asked, " please tell me your
> feelings."
> The youth said, Number 1, I know now what is
> appreciation. Without my mother, there would not the
> successful me today. Number 2, by working together and
> helping my mother, only I now realize how difficult and
> tough it is to get something done. Number 3, I have come to
> appreciate the importance and value of family
> relationship.
> The director said, " This is what I am looking
> for to be my manager.
> I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help of
> others, a person who knows the sufferings of
> others to get things done, and a person who would not put
> money as his only goal in life. You are hired.
> Later on, this young person worked very hard, and
> received the respect of his subordinates. Every employee
> worked diligently and as a team. The company's
> performance improved tremendously.
> A child, who has been protected and habitually given
> whatever he wanted, would develop "entitlement
> mentality" and would always put himself first. He would
> be ignorant of his parent's efforts. When he starts
> work, he assumes that every person must listen to him, and
> when he becomes a manager, he would never know the
> sufferings of his employees and would always blame others.
> For this kind of people, who may be good academically, may
> be successful for a while, but eventually would not feel
> sense of achievement. He will grumble and be full of hatred
> and fight for more. If we are this kind of protective
> parents, are we really showing love or are we destroying the
> kid instead?*
> You can let your kid live in a big house, eat a good
> meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when you are
> cutting grass, please let them experience it. After a meal,
> let them wash their plates and bowls together with their
> brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have
> money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love
> them in a right way. You want them to understand, no matter
> how rich their parents are, one day their hair will grow
> gray, same as the mother of that young person. The most
> important thing is your kid learns how to appreciate the
> effort and experience the difficulty and learns the ability
> to work with others to get things done.
> You would have forwarded many mails to many and many
> of them would have back mailed you too...but try and forward
> this story to as many as possible...this may change
> somebody's fate...
>

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