By: sugarnspice4u
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 result is excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never has a year he did not score.
The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the youth answered "none".
The director asked, “Is it your father pay for your school fees?" the youth answered, my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my mother who paid for my school fees.
The director asked, " Where did your mother worked?" the youth answered, my mother worked as cloth cleaner. The director requested the youth to show his hands, the youth showed a pair of hands that was smooth and perfect to the director.
The director asked, “Did you ever help your mother washed the cloth before?" The youth answered, never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books, furthermore, and my mother can wash cloths faster than me.
The director said, I had a request, when you go back today, go and help to clean your mother's hands, and then see me tomorrow morning.
The youth felt that its chance of landing the job is high, when he went back, he happily wanted to clean his mother's hands, his mother feels strange, happy but mixed with fear, she showed her hands to the kid.
The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly, his tear drop down as he did that. It is first time he found his mother's hand is so wrinkled, and there are so many bruises in her hands.
Some bruises incite pains so strong that shiver her mother's body when cleaned with water.
This is the first time the youth realized and experienced that it is this pair of hands that washed the cloth everyday to earn him the school fees, the bruises in the mother's hands is the price that the mother paid for his graduation and academic excellence and probably his future.
After finishing the cleaning of his mother hands, the youth quietly cleaned all remaining clothes for his mother.
That night, mother and sons talked for a very long time.
Next morning, the youth went to the director's office
The director noticed the tear in the youth's eye, asked: “Can you tell you what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"
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 result is excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never has a year he did not score.
The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the youth answered "none".
The director asked, “Is it your father pay for your school fees?" the youth answered, my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my mother who paid for my school fees.
The director asked, " Where did your mother worked?" the youth answered, my mother worked as cloth cleaner. The director requested the youth to show his hands, the youth showed a pair of hands that was smooth and perfect to the director.
The director asked, “Did you ever help your mother washed the cloth before?" The youth answered, never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books, furthermore, and my mother can wash cloths faster than me.
The director said, I had a request, when you go back today, go and help to clean your mother's hands, and then see me tomorrow morning.
The youth felt that its chance of landing the job is high, when he went back, he happily wanted to clean his mother's hands, his mother feels strange, happy but mixed with fear, she showed her hands to the kid.
The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly, his tear drop down as he did that. It is first time he found his mother's hand is so wrinkled, and there are so many bruises in her hands.
Some bruises incite pains so strong that shiver her mother's body when cleaned with water.
This is the first time the youth realized and experienced that it is this pair of hands that washed the cloth everyday to earn him the school fees, the bruises in the mother's hands is the price that the mother paid for his graduation and academic excellence and probably his future.
After finishing the cleaning of his mother hands, the youth quietly cleaned all remaining clothes for his mother.
That night, mother and sons talked for a very long time.
Next morning, the youth went to the director's office
The director noticed the tear in the youth's eye, asked: “Can you tell you what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"
The youth answered, “I cleaned my mother's hands, and also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes'
The director asked, “please tell me your feeling."
The youth said, Number 1, I knew what is appreciation, without my mother, there would not the successful me today.
Number 2, I knew how to work
together with my mother, then only I can realize how difficult and tough to get
something done.
Number 3, I knew the
importance and value of family relationship.
The director said, " This is what I am asking, I want to recruit a person that can appreciate the help of other, a person that knew the suffering of others to get thing done, and a person that would not put money as his only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired.
Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates, every employees worked diligently and in a team, the company's result improved tremendously.
A child who has been protected and habitually given whatever he did, he developed "entitlement mentality" and always put himself first. He is ignorance of his parent's effort.
When he started work, he assumed every people must listen to him, and when he became a manager, he would never know how suffering his employee and always blame others.
The director said, " This is what I am asking, I want to recruit a person that can appreciate the help of other, a person that knew the suffering of others to get thing done, and a person that would not put money as his only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired.
Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates, every employees worked diligently and in a team, the company's result improved tremendously.
A child who has been protected and habitually given whatever he did, he developed "entitlement mentality" and always put himself first. He is ignorance of his parent's effort.
When he started work, he assumed every people must listen to him, and when he became a manager, he would never know how suffering his employee and always blame others.
For this kind of people, he can have a good result, may be
successful for a while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement, he
will grumble and full of hatred and fight for more.
If we are this kind of protective parent, did we love the kid or destroy the kid?
You can let your kid lived in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experienced it. After a meal, let them washed their plate and bowl together with their brothers and sisters.
If we are this kind of protective parent, did we love the kid or destroy the kid?
You can let your kid lived in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experienced it. After a meal, let them washed their plate and bowl 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 parent 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 learn the ability to
work with others to get thing done.
With many thanks to The
Experience Project.
Picture Credit: Knowing
The Path and Walking the Path Blog
Many thanks to Edith for sending me
this important piece.
