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The salt and lake

Written on October 10, 2008 – 2:35 am | by admin | | Tags: inspiration, Short Story, story

One day in a living of a wise old man. At a morning, came a young child who is steady cook a lot of problems. He has a step slow and complicated shape face. This guest that it looks like people are not happy.

Soon that young man told of all the problems. The old man have a wise to listen to it carefully. He then takes handful of salt and ask his guest to take a glass of water. He scattered the salt into the glass, then slowly mixed it. “Try drinking this, and tell me how the taste,” said the old man.

“Bit…, once a bitter taste …”, while the guest responsibility spit a side.

The old man little smile. Then he invites the guest to walk the edge of the forest near the lake where stay. The two men walking side by side and eventually covering their edge lake that is quiet.

The old man take a handful of salt and diffuse into the lake. With the piece of wood he makes the waves from the stirs and created ripples of water. “Try to take water from this pond and drink,” the old man said. When the guests finished a gulp of water, the old man again asked, “How does it taste?”

“Fresh”, guests respond. “Do you feel the salt in the water?” Ask the old man again. “No,” replied the young.

The old man get slap repeatedly that young children back. He then take it sitting on the land beside the lake. “Young man, listen. The bitter life is properly handful of salt, no more and no less. The number and the taste of bitter is the same. And it will always remain the same. ”

“But, the bitterness that we feel will be very dependent from the vessel that we have. It will be based on the bitterness of feeling where we put everything. That all depends on our hearts. So when you feel the bitterness and failure in life, there is only one thing you can do. Just wider your hurt to receive all. Hurried to accommodate every heart is bitterness. ”

The old man then continue his advice, “Your heart, is the container. Your feeling is the place. Your mind, is the place you accommodate everything. So, do not make your heart is like a glass. Just make it like wells each capable of muted bitterness and alter a freshness and happiness.”

Both then go home. They learn together that day. And the old man ‘the wise people’ re-save ‘handful of salt’ to other young children who often come to him to bring fretful soul …