Are you Fortunate or Unfortunate.....!

Are you Fortunate or Unfortunate.....!

Two ChoicesWhat would you do? You make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice? At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: "When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?" The audience was stilled by the query.The father continued. "I believe that when a child like Shay, physically and mentally handicapped comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child." Then he told the following story:Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, "Do you think they'll let me play?" Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps. Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, "We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning." Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. His Father watched with a small tear in his eye and warmth in his heart. The boys saw the father's joy at his son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat. At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball. However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher. The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, "Shay, run to first! Run to first!" Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled. Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second!" Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball ... the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home. All were screaming, "Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay"Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, "Run to third! Shay, run to third!" As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, "Shay, run home! Run home!" Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team. "That day", said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, "the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world".Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!


AND NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY: We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces. If you're thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren't the "appropriate" ones to receive this type of message. Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the "natural order of things." So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process? A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them.
You now have two choices:1. Delete2. Forward
May your day, be a Shay Day.

My Comments:
In general people are not ready to think that they are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to have no physical problem and they takes it for granted that GIFT of GOD and always try to redicule or belittle others who are less fortunate in life.
That is why I have underlined the line which is in red letters.
They always think that what they have achieved is because of their planning and because they work very very hard in life.But even after working very very hard it is not always possible to get the full results and sometimes even it becomes a futile effort.But the successful always says that they must have not tried this way or not have tried that way....he must have not put 100% in what he did etc etc.......he should have done this ,he should have done that and what not advices he will get.....but after all it is the luck that plays an important role in one life.One big support from someone and your life is done.....that is what needed....some gets support in form of a Bank loan, some gets support from a friend, some get it from an unknown person.....there are many ways it can come......
The bottomline here is "always be humble for your success.Remember that SUCCESS is not your owns effort......IT IS VERY VERY DIFFICULT TO DIGEST SUCCESS."
One should always remember that he is fortunate enough to have success.If he would have been handicapped from birth like Shay then what he would have done?What success he could have been able to achieve?With a physically and mentally deabled position what one can do?When one can't run or even walk properly or can't even think properly, what success one can have?To be successful one has to think but when one is mentally disabled like Shay, how will one do that?
I have wrote some times back that only Bill Gates can only open a Philanthropic institution , a drop out collegiate.Those who too much qualified can never do that , ofcourse with some exception like Narayan Murthy,because they always think that the success is because of their own cleverness....and no one on earth helped them.They did it on their own,but as I said earlier that they forget GOD...who gave them no handicaps to fulfill their dream.......
So as such God also do not give that much cleverness or insight to everyone to get fulfill ones desire.So it is a God gift to those are very good acadamically and has made a good earnings but then they have no business to belittle or say anything to anyone what they feels and if they do then they should have courage to tell to the world...that Yes, I am arrogant....and I feel what I have achieved is on my own.....and hence I am not here to help anyone.......as no one helped me....So what ever one achieves is not all his.....
Be Humble....
Moral :
Fortunate people should also think of Unfortunate ones.....