Helping Hand

The wife and the window!!!

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hang the wash outside.

That laundry is not very clean, she said, she doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.

Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look! She has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this.

" The husband said: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows!"

And so it is with life: "What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look. Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge. "

The Law of the Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!' This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so... ·

Love the people who treat you right. ·
Pray for the ones who don't - that they see the wisdom of their foolish ways'

"""""""Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it! """"""

New Year, New Resolutions- An appeal to my friends

Hi friends,
I wish u & ur family a happy new year 2009. May this new year brings happiness, health & wealth.

Lot of people will have lot of resolutions on this new year, but helping the humanity may top the chart. I thought new year would be the right time to spread this message. I know many of you must be returning some the wealth, that God gave to us, back to the society. I'm giving here some organizations info so that atleast some of this audience would respond to the needy.

Help the needy, God will help you back.

1. Provide scholarships to the needy through BREAD www.breadsocietyindia.org/ or NSF (US) http://www.northsouth.org I've been donating some amount to these orgs for the last few years. The entire amount we donate will be passed on to the needy and the organization is being run thru the interest

2. I visited a poor students' ashram Chavadi Child Welfare Society, Telecom Nagar, Gachibowli (www.tccws.org) recently and distributed fruits, biscuits and chocolates. I spoke to the director of this org for any donation, but he told me that they have sufficient funds for the current strength and suggested me to sponsor any bright student after 10th. I need to go to this school again to interact with the kids. Similar organization is Samyuktha Foundation samyukthafoundation.org . They run schools for the children of construction workers. I need to visit one of these schools.

3. www.shareaservice.org/ A meeting place for donors and the organizations.

4. Ramakrishna Math at Indira Park: I've been visiting Math and used to donate money for annadaanam on special occasions. You can donate that suits your pocket and program. The best thing with this Math is that they provide food only for kids, ladies, elderly people and physically handicapped. They spend Rs 3000 a day. They also provide free education thru Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence; you can also donate for it.

5. You can also donate to any needy people based on news from papers. I responded in 1 or 2 cases.

6. Donate blood. You can register here www.friendstosupport.org/. I registered here and donated blood recently in the office

Dedicating this message to Swapnika, the acid attack victim, who lost her life on 31st December 2008 after fighting for 22 days on bed. May her soul rest in peace.

Have a beautiful & wishfilled year ahead.

Don't opt for abortion

Guys,

Don't opt for abortion. We don't have any right to kill. Go thru this story.

A small heart's problem

Ma-vidakulu