A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He
held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a
few coins in the hat.
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped
them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote
some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would
see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to
the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to
see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were
you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a
different way.”
What he had written was: “Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.”
Both signs told people the boy was blind. While the first sign simply
said the boy was blind, the second sign pointed the fortunate ones to
their positive possibilities.
Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be
innovative. Think differently and positively. Invite the people towards
good with wisdom.