There was once a small boy who banged a drum all day and loved every moment of it.
He would not be quiet, no matter what anyone else said or did. Various attempts were made to do something about the child.
One person told the boy that he would, if he continued to make so much noise, perforate his eardrums. This reasoning was too advanced for the child, who was neither a scientist nor a scholar.
A second person told him that drum beating was a sacred activity and should be carried out only on special occasions. The third person offered the neighbors plugs for their ears; a fourth gave the boy a book; a fifth gave the neighbors books that described a method of controlling anger through biofeedback; a sixth person gave the boy meditation exercises to make him placid and docile. None of these attempts worked.
Eventually, a wise person came along with an effective motivation. He looked at the situation, handed the child a hammer and chisel, and asked, “I wonder what’s inside the drum?”
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A small boy named Hameed lived in a village in Morocco.
None of his classmates liked him because of his stupidity, especially his teacher, who was always yelling at him: “You are driving me crazy Hameed!”
One day Hameed’s mother came into school to check on how he was doing. The teacher told his mother honestly, that her son was simply a disaster, getting very low marks & even she had never seen such a dumb boy in her entire teaching career! The mother was shocked at the feedback & withdrew her son from the school & even moved to another town!
25 years later, the teacher was diagnosed with an incurable cardio disease! All the doctors strongly advised her to have open heart surgery, which only one surgeon could perform. Left with no other options, the teacher decided to have the operation, which was successful. When she opened her eyes after the surgery she saw a handsome doctor smiling down at her!
She wanted to thank him, but could not talk. Her face started to turn blue, she raised her hand, trying to tell him something, but eventually died!
The doctor was shocked & was trying to work out what had gone wrong. When he turned around he saw that our friend Hameed, who was working as a cleaner in the clinic, had unplugged the oxygen equipment to connect his vacuum cleaner!
