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Here’s some good old Chinese wisdom! :Here’s some good old Chinese wisdom! Do not click.
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Slide 2:An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck.
Slide 3:One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.
Slide 4:At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
Slide 5:For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.
Slide 6:Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.
Slide 7:But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.
Slide 8:After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.
Slide 9:“I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.”
Slide 10:The old woman smiled, “Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side?
Slide 11:That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.”
Slide 12:“For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.”
Slide 13:Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.”
Slide 14:Each of us has our own unique flaw…
Slide 15:But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.
Slide 16:You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.
Slide 17:Photographer : M.F. Doddy Abdurachman PowerPoint : Benny A Setiawan