Counting Your Blessings !

Eo7c...HCGa

7 Feb 2024

One day, as soon as a professor came to his class, he said, “Come, get ready for the surprise test.
All the students got nervous…some started turning the pages of books and some started reading the notes given by the head quickly.

“All this will not be of any use….”, the professor said smilingly, “I am placing the question paper in front of you all, you will look at it only when all the papers are distributed.”

Papers were distributed.

"Ok! You may now look at the paper!”, the professor instructed.

The next moment everyone was looking at the question paper, but what the hell, there was no question on it! It was just a black spot on white paper!

" What is this sir, there is no question in it?, a student stood up and said.

The professor said, “Whatever is in front of you, you just have to explain it… and you have only 10 minutes for this work… let’s get started…”

Students had no choice…they started writing their own answers.

When the time ended, the professor collected the answer sheets and started reading them one by one.

Almost everyone had tried to explain the black spot in their own way but no one had talked about the white space present around that spot.

The professor became serious and said, “This test has nothing to do with your academics, nor am I going to give you any marks for it…. I have only one motive behind this test… I want to tell you an amazing truth of life…

See… 99% of this entire paper is white… but none of you wrote about it and spent 100% of your answer in explaining only that one thing which is only 1%… and this is the thing in our life. This is also seen in… Problems are a small part of our life, but we focus our entire attention on them…some are worried day and night about their looks and some are worried about their career. So someone else just keeps crying about money.

Why don't we be happy by counting our blessings... Why don't we thank God for our full meal... Why don't we be thankful for our lovely family... Why don't we be thankful for those 99% things in life Let's pay attention to the things that really make our lives better.

Let us from today stop taking life's problems more seriously than necessary and learn to enjoy the small joys of life... only then we will be able to live life in its true meaning.