Love has no age

Today, my slippers got tore off and I took them to a cobbler. The cobbler was an old man, aged around 75 years. His wife was stitching her slippers which had been torn off many times. The old man asked his wife "Did you have lunch?", to which the wife replied "No".

The old man takes a 50 Rs note, gives it to his wife and asks her to have lunch. She replies "No. I don't want your money. You keep it. I know how to survive", and continues to stitch her slippers. The old man then collects my slipper and checks its size. He attempts to stitch it and then gives it to his wife saying that his hands are hurting. She stitched my slippers and gave it back to him. She then continues to stitch her own slippers.

These moments went very deep into me. I paid 100 Rs to the old man and asked him to keep the change. He refused stubbornly and after a long search in his workplace, gave me back my 50 Rs change. After thanking both of them, I turned back disappointed looking at his wife stitching her slippers.

And then, the old man says to his wife "Now this money is earned by you. This is your money. Go and have your lunch".

Love has no age. Love knows no currency. Love finds no boundaries. I envy this old couple! Made my day! :)

Even a billion dollars cannot buy this feeling and love :)

Learn To Love Your Fate

At age 67 , Thomas Edison faced a tragedy when one evening a man came rushing down to his house and informed that -

“Mr. Edison , a fire had been broken out at your research and production campus!”

When Edison reached the spot , he saw in front of his eyes - years and years of priceless records , prototypes and research turn into green and yellow flames. His empire was being burnt to ashes.

Edison calmly but quickly made his way to the fire , through the now hundreds of onlookers and devastated employees , looking for his son.

“Go get your mother and all her friends,” he told his son with a childlike excitement -

“They’ll never see a fire like this again”

WHAT??

Don’t worry , Edison calmed him. “It’s all right. We’ve just got rid of a lot of rubbish”.

Pretty amazing reaction isn’t it? How did he remain so calm in a situation like this?

The TRUTH is that he had no other choice. Crying/Pondering was not the way out.

HE ACCEPTED HIS FATE AND MOVED ON.

After that tragic incident , Edison built his lab once again and did more sales than he ever did previously.

What is the lesson here?

Learn To Love Your Fate.

If it happened, then it was meant to happen, and I am glad that it did when it did. I am meant to make the best of it.

HOW TO USE THIS LIFE HACK?

Next time when something bad happens to you ,remind yourself : AMOR FATI.

I accept whatever has happened to me and because this has happened , even though I don’t see the sake of this situation right now, I know in the near future -

ALL OF IT WILL MAKE SENSE.