GRATITUDE

 Air Commodore Vishal was a Jet Pilot. In a combat mission, his fighter plane was destroyed by a missile. He however, ejected himself and landed safely with the parachute. 

He won acclaims and appreciations from many people.

Five years from this incident, one day he was sitting with his wife in a restaurant. A man from a nearby table came up to him and said, "You are Captain Vishal, you fly jet fighters, don't you? Once your fighter plane was destroyed by a missile, isn't it?"

"How do you know that?" asked Vishal.

I had packed your parachute that day," the man smiled and replied.

Suddenly, Vishal started breathing heavily. He realised if the parachute had not worked at that moment, he would not be here today. He had goosebumps just thinking of this, and his heart was filled with gratitude.

Vishal couldn't sleep that night. He wondered how many times he must've seen that man, but never paid attention to him, never even said - "Good morning, how are you?" In fact, he had never spoken to him, just because he himself was a fighter pilot and that person was just an ordinary safety worker.

So friends, who is packing our parachute?

Everyone has someone in life, who provides what they need to make it through the day. We need all kinds of parachutes to get through life safely - the physical parachute, the mental, emotional, and the spiritual parachutes. 

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss this really important aspect.

We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you to these providers, but we can congratulate them on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.

Let’s close our eyes and try to recall the name of the person who comes to our house to collect the garbage, the lady who brooms every day outside our house, the security guard of our society, the bus conductor and driver who pick up and drop our kids every day from school. 

Let’s thank everyone who has packed our parachute one way or the other.

                

"Gratitude is a very potent attitude and a great positive emotion. Gratitude is the outcome of a heartfelt practice."

PATIENT & DOCTOR

 A dentist, doing his first extraction on a patient, was understandably nervous.

When he got the molar out, his hand shook, he lost his grip on the instrument, and the tooth dropped down into the patient's throat. "Sorry," said the doctor. "You're outside my specialty now.

You should see a laryngologist! [throat specialist]."

By the time the unfortunate victim got to· the laryngologist, the tooth had worked its way much further down.

The laryngologist examined the man. "Sorry,"said the doctor, "You're outside my specialty now. You should see a gastrologist! [stomach specialist]."

The gastrologist X-rayed the patient. "Sorry," said the doctor,"the tooth has traveled into your lower intestines. You should see an enterologist! [intestinal specialist].''

The enterologist took some X rays. "Sorry, the tooth isn't there. It must have gone down farther . You should see a Proctologist! [a specialist in diseases of the rectum; a**s].

The Proctologist's examined the patient.... inserted a proctoscope inside the . . . . and remarked.....

"Good heavens, man! 

You've got a tooth up there!

You should see a dentist!"

Dedicated to SUPER SPECIALTY HOSPITALS OF TODAY

Two Ladies Talking in Heaven 🤣

  

1st woman:    Hi! Wanda.

2nd woman:   Hi! Sylvia.  How did you die?

1st woman:    I froze to death.

2nd woman:   How horrible!

1st woman:  ;   It wasn't so bad. After I quit  shaking from the cold, I began to get warm & sleepy, and finally died a peaceful death. What about you?

2nd woman:   I died of a  massive heart attack. I suspected that my husband was cheating, so I came home early to catch him in the act. But instead, I found him all by himself in the den watching TV.

1st woman:    So, what happened?

2nd woman:   I was so sure there was another woman there somewhere that I started running all over the house looking...

I ran up to the attic and searched, and down into the basement. Then I went through every closet and checked under all the beds. 

Kept this up until I'd looked everywhere. And finally, I got so exhausted that I just died after  collapsing with a heart attack.

1st woman:   Too bad you didn't look in the freezer---we'd both still be alive. 

PRICELESS..!!!!

OLD AGE QUOTES 🤣

 FUNNIEST QUOTES ABOUT AGEING....

"To get back to my youth, I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." - Oscar Wilde

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it." - Golda Meir 

"The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. Mark Twain 

"As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." - Sir Norman Wisdom 

"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened." - Jennifer Yane 

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old." - Mark Twain 

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen." - Mark Twain 

"First, you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." - Leo Rosenberg 

"The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down." - T.S. Elliot 

"A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would f green bananas.’" - Claude Pepper 

"If you want to know how old a woman is, then ask her sister-in-law." - Edgar Howe 

"Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes, age just shows up all by itself." - Tom Wilson

“Ageing seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” - Kitty O’Neill Collins 

"Looking fifty is great—if you’re sixty." - Joan Rivers 

"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us… at age 40, we don’t care what they think of us… at age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all." - Ann Landers

"I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often… but I’m well preserved." - Rose Kennedy

"The important thing to remember is that I’m probably going to forget." - Unknown 

"We don’t grow older. We grow riper." - Pablo Picasso 

"I don't do alcohol anymore—I get the same effect just standing up fast." - Anonymous 

“It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” - Andy Rooney

"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam."- George Carlin

"I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap." - Bob Hope 

"I’m 59, and people call me middle-aged. How many 118-year-old men do you know?"- Barry Cryer 

“By the time you’re 80 years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” - George Burns

"I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to." - Albert Einstein 

"There’s one advantage to being 102. There’s no peer pressure." - Dennis Wolfberg 

"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs." - Charles Dickens

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.” – Maurice Chevalier.

LAW OF RETRIBUTION

 *THE UPPER COURT*

Several years ago, when Justice Ranganath Mishra was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, he was invited as the Chief Guest at the Law College of Puri, Odisha. 

On that particular day, before reaching the college function, he went to the Jagannath temple, Puri, to have Darshan of Lord Jagannath and while returning, he heard someone calling him by his name "Ranganath Babu" several times. 

He was astonished as to who could call him like this in a loud voice, that too near the temple entrance and whether it was for him or someone else !! In a dilemma, he looked back and saw one beggar with an ugly face, inflicted with leprosy and bandage covering his hands and legs, calling him. 

Justice Mishra asked him “Who are you and why are you calling me”? The caller replied, "Sir, you do not remember me ?

 I am  the notorious Kulia Daku (bandit). 

A few years ago, when you were practising in Odisha High Court, I was your client. 

In a robbery and murder case, I was awarded lifetime rigorous imprisonment by the lower Court,  but you had fought my case in appeal before the Odisha High Court and got me acquitted. But actually, I was the culprit as I had murdered one person and looted his money and gold. Similarly, in other cases also, I was set free, without any punishment."

             

He continued, "Sir, though I was set free by the Justice of human beings, in the court of the  Almighty I was severely punished and contracted leprosy through out my body and consequently lost limbs. My family, my kith and kin hated me and drove me out from the village. Hence, now I am crawling on the road  and begging for food. Near the temple gate, sometimes someone gives food or else I go without food." 

Hearing this, Justice Mishra gave him a hundred rupees' note and left silently, with a heavy heart.

           

At the Law College function, Justice Mishra narrated this true incident, with  tears in his eyes. He said, “We are judges here, to set free or sentence someone, as per our wit. But there is one more UPPER  COURT above, where no wit works and the culprit would be punished for sure”.

It is called the *Law of Retribution.!!!🙏🏽

MONEY!!🤣

One day two young brothers in Rome, aged 12 and 14 came home with a 20 and 50 euro note. Their mother asked them where they got all that money.

"Well, we were standing outside the brothel when a guy left," said the 12-year-old. "We told him we knew where he had been, so he asked us not to reveal anything and gave us 20 euros."

"Then we followed the man," said the other boy, "and when he came to his house we told him that now we also knew where he lived. Then he gave us another 50 euros and begged us to keep quiet."

"That's a truly awful behavior," the mother replied. "You really should be ashamed of yourselves and feel sorry for the man. Off you go to confession."

The boys did what they were told and went to church to confess to the priest.

After a while they came back with 100 euros because now they knew where the man worked.

Intelligence &Wisdom

 This is so good ... I had never known these  profound distinctions between *Intelligence* and *Wisdom* 

(Quotes from our ancient books )

1. Intelligence leads to arguments.

Wisdom leads to settlements.

 

2. Intelligence is power of will.

Wisdom is power OVER  will.

 

3. Intelligence is heat, it burns.

Wisdom is warmth, it comforts.

 

4. Intelligence is pursuit of knowledge, it tires the seeker.

Wisdom is pursuit of truth, it inspires the seeker.

 

5. Intelligence is holding on.

Wisdom is letting go.

 

6. Intelligence leads you.

Wisdom guides you.

 

7. An intelligent man thinks he knows everything.

A wise man knows that there is still something to learn.

 

8. An intelligent man always tries to prove his point.

A wise man knows there really is no point.

 

9. An intelligent man freely gives unsolicited advice.

A wise man keeps his counsel until all options are considered.

 

10. An intelligent man understands what is being said.

A wise man understands what is left unsaid.

 

11. An intelligent man speaks when he has to say something.

A wise man speaks when he has something to say.

 

12. An intelligent man sees  everything as relative.

A wise man sees everything as related.

 

13. An intelligent man tries to control the mass flow.

A wise man navigates the mass flow.

 

14. An intelligent man preaches.

A wise man reaches.

Intelligence is good but Wisdom achieves better results.