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?"
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.
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.
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.
Many thanks to Edith for sending me
this important piece.
