Dear Friends

I wish to share one story recently came across with:

"An old man basically very rich was passing through a very bad phase. It was his worst time of life and as usual no one was with him at this fag end of life. His immediate family members also left him at the mercy of god. All his properties were sold and still he was burdened with huge debt. He had lost his capacity and will to fight back and hence was witnessing auction of his properties.

In a packed room, sitting in a corner of front row, the old man was witnessing how each and every prized possessions were being auctioned at throw away price. The auctioneer was taking every item one by one and showing the people, every one was laughing, bidding and taking away the items. The old man was sitting with his neck down and virtually in tears. When almost all the items were auctioned, the auctioneer took one meticulously designed violin. The violin looked one of the high priced item. The auctioneer showed the violin with hands up to the gathering and asked what price they would like to pay. He started with $100. No one responded then asked for $75 again no one responded then he asked if any one would like to pay $50, the response was same, now he became more excited with asking price of $25. No one even took the notice. The old man was noticing the whole sequence. The auctioneer finally asked if $5 would be acceptable to any bidder? Again no response. The old man stand up on his weak legs, went to the stage gradually and asked if he would be permitted two minutes. The gathering was more in mood of entertainment and hence allowed him two minutes. He took the violin in his arms and turned the back towards the crowed. He adjusted some wires of the violin and turned towards the crowed. He started playing violin and the crowed was stunned to hear the voice of violin. He put back the violin on the table and came down. Every one gave him standing ovation but he was least concerned. Now the turn was of auctioneer, he thundered, friends what should be the bid for this marvelous violin? he started with $25, some one bid for $100 then other one $200 and soon the bidding price jumped to $1000. It ended only when some one finally bought at $5000."

The moral of the story is that with slight adjustment in a useless looking thing can make it a precious. It depends how we look at it. In our life, the attitude is violin wires which if slightly adjusted can make us highly successful and worthy person.

CPJain