Story - Stop being a glass, Become a lake.

[sushmita]

Once an unhappy young man came to an old master and told he had a very sad life and asked for a solution.

The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.

"How does it taste?" – The Master asked.

"Terrible." – spat the apprentice.

The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake.

The old man said, "Now drink from the lake."

As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How does it taste?"

"Good!" – remarked the apprentice.

"Do you taste the salt?" – asked the Master.

"No." – said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, "The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake."

Stop being a glass. Become a lake."

[farahdina]

Very very true and  touching moral.... :)

[Shampa Iftakhar]

Every educative. Definitely, we should take our suffering as a normal course of life. Thank you.

[shamsi]

Dear Sushmita,

Your post has made me curious to have a feedback from you.That is: Am I lake or a glass?What do you think?

Regards,

Shamsi Apu

[Ferdousi Begum]

moral is nice.

[sushmita]

Thank you all.

Dear Shamsi apu, None can know you better than you. So you can give the true solution...of "Are you a glass or a lake?"

Let me know this after meeting you physically.

[shamsi]

Well said Sushmita.I will be waiting to meet you.

Regards,

Shamsi Apu

[Antara11]

Really a great story with its moral. But can we be a lake easily? Can we consider our pain only a little effective entity in our life? How can we be a lake?????????But we really need to be.

Thanks dear Sushmita

[sushmita]

Dear Antara11,

It's really a matter of question. You  can generate an article on this debating fact.

Thank you. :)