The Turtle and Flash

In one kingdom farm away there was a beautiful princess named Elna. She was going to marry Flash the arrogant, the fastest of all. Flash was an arrogant man who’s always challenging and saying, “All who race with me will never taste victory”. She was never in loved with him, so she cried and prays to god so that she finds someone who she loves truly from her heart.
When the day of the marriage arrived, a slow turtle was passing bye. It passes by Flash slowly and that makes flash laugh. The turtle dislike what Flash did and challenge him, “if you can beat me in a race, then I will be the one marrying princess Elna”. Flash laugh and accept the challenge.

“You dare challenge me turtle? You are slow, so I’m going to give you a head start.
"How big of a head start do you need?” he ask the turtle.
“20 meters”, replied the turtle.
Flash laugh so hard the he shed a tear, “Whatever the gap, it still doesn’t change how you can win against me”.
“Oh I can, I will prove it with my words now”, replied the turtle with a big smile.
“Then prove it now”, says Flash in a high tone.
“So, supposed”, started the turtle, “if you gave me a 20 meter head start, then you can cover that gap very quickly?”
"Of course very quickly” confirmed Flash.
"Then by the time you cover that gap, I’m already moving forward making a new gap? Right?”
"Yes ofcourse” Answers flash still curious.
“And by the time you cover the second gap, I’ve already have make another gap?”. Flash stays silent, not a single word.
"Thus”, continued the turtle, “by each time your catching up the distance between us, I too by the same time will be adding up new distance for you to catch up again” smiled the turtle.
"Y-yes that’s true” said Flash slowly.
"And so you can never catch up” the turtle concluded.
“Yes you are right” said Flash sadly and accept his defeat.
Princess Elna was so happy she didn’t have to marry Flash. So she pick up turtle and kissed him. Suddenly the turtle transform to a very handsome Prince. “My name is Archilles” he said, “Would you marry me, Elna my princess?”. Princess Elna happily accepted Archilles proposal and thay lived happy ever after. 

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Barrister Akpos And The Village Farmer

Barrister Akpos who has gone to the village for Christmas celebration went hunting in a nearby village.

He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the other side of the fence.

As Barrister Akpos climbed over the fence, an elderly gentleman asked him what he was doing.

He responded,

"I shot a duck and it fell in this field. I am going to retrieve it."

The old farmer replied,

"This is my property and you are not coming here."

Arrogant Akpos said,

"I am one of the best trial attorneys in this country and if you don't let me get that duck, I will sue you and take everything!"

The old farmer smiled and said,


"Apparently, you do not know how we do things here. We settle small disagreement like this with Three-kick Rule."

Barrister Akpos asked,

"What is the Three-kick Rule?"

The farmer replied,

"Well, first I kick you three times and then you kick me three times, and so on, back and forth, until someone gives up."

Akpos quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old man.

He agreed to abide by the local custom.

The old farmer slowly walked up to him.

His first kick planted the toe of his heavy work boot into Akpos' groin and dropped him to his knees.

His second kick nearly wiped Akpos' nose off his face.

Barrister Akpos was flat on his belly when the farmer's third kick to a kidney nearly caused him to give up."

He eventually summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet and said,

"Okay, you old farmer, now it's my turn."

The farmer smiled and said,

"Now I give up. You can have the duck."

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How To Stop Worrying And Start Living

Do you think you know why we worry so much about things which are not too problematic as we feel sometimes. I agree that worrying can be helpful when it spurs you to solve some important moment or take action. What if you can't stop it? Sounds awful! Can you imagine yourself worrying about everything. There are some tips that could help you and I gathered the best of them.

1) Have a list of all your worries written! When I have too much "problems" to be solved, I usually try to make a list to distinguish between solvable and unsolvable problems.

2) One of my favorite web-bloggers says "Worried people often have a sense of urgency. They think, 'I need the answer right now and if I don't get it then something terrible will happen.'" Look at the advantages and disadvantages of demanding such urgency. "Rather than focus on the sense of urgency, instead focus on what you observe right now," which is very important to understand.

3) Ask yourself these questions:

* What’s the evidence that the thought is true? That it’s not true?
* Is there a more positive, realistic way of looking at the situation?
* What’s the probability that what I’m scared of will actually happen?
* If the probability is low, what are some more likely outcomes?
* Is the thought helpful? How will worrying about it help me and how will it hurt me?
* What would I say to a friend who had this worry?

4) Work out. Few things work so well and consistently as working out to release inner tensions and to move out of a head space that is extra vulnerable to worries. So even though working out helps you to build a stronger body your main motivation to keep doing it is for the wonderful and predictable mental benefits.

5) Spend more time in the present moment. When you spend too much time reliving the past in your mind then it easy to start feeding your worries about the future. When you spend too much time in the future then is also easy to get swept away by disaster scenarios.

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There Are Two Sides To Every Story

In today's blog I will be making you a story about a Boss and his Watchman.

The story is made and blended in first person omniscient point of view, although it's never in any way related to my life - please take note. My Boss was a wealthy man. He drove a luxury car every day and it was my duty to greet him and open the gate for him, as I worked as a watchman in his villa. But he never responded to my greetings. One day, he saw me opening the garbage bags outside his villa in search of any leftover food. But as usual, he never even looked at me, it was as if he never saw anything. So the next day as I was coming out from the villa, I saw a paper bag at the same place, but it was clean and the food inside was quite intact. It was as if someone had just brought it from the supermarket. I didn't bother as to where it came from. I just took the paper bag and was so happy about it. Every day I found this paper bag at the same place with fresh vegetables and all that we needed for home. This became my daily routine. I was eating and sharing this food with my wife and kids. I was wondering who this fool could be - to forget his paper bag full of fresh food.

One day, something terrible happened, my Boss was dead. There were too many guests coming to the villa and I didn't get any food that day. Maybe one of the guests must have taken the food. But the same thing happened the second day, the third day and the fourth day... It went on like this for few weeks and I found it difficult to provide food for my family. So I decided to ask the wife of my Boss for a raise in my salary or I would quit my job as a watchman. She was shocked after I told her and she asked me how come I never complained about my salary for the past 2 years and why is this salary not enough for me now. I gave her so many excuses but she was never convinced. Finally, I decided to tell her the truth. I told her the entire story of the bag of groceries, and as to how it was my daily food. She then asked me as to when this stopped. I told her that it was after the death of her husband, my Boss. And then I realized I stopped seeing the paper bag immediately after the death of my Boss. Why didn't I think that it was my Boss who's has been providing this for me? I guess it is because I never thought that someone who never replied to my greetings could ever be this generous! His wife started crying and I asked her to stop and that I'm sorry to have asked for a raise. I didn't know that it was your husband who was providing me with the meals. I will remain as a watchman and be happy to provide my services. His wife then said, 'I am crying because I've finally found the 7th person my husband was giving this bag full of food. I knew my husband was giving 7 people every day. I had already found 6 people, and all these days I have been searching for the 7th person, and today I found out...'

From that day onwards, I started to receive the bag full of food again, but this time, his some was bringing it to my house and giving it to my hand. But whenever I thanked him, he never replied. Just like his dad. One day, I told him THANK YOU in a very loud voice. He replied back and said to me to please not be offended when he doesn't reply, because he has a hearing problem, just like his dad. Oh! We have had been wrong judging others without knowing the true story behind their actions. Be kind and courteous in dealing with others, for everyone is fighting a hard battle. Be careful, not everything is about you. Before you assume, there is this thing called ASKING. Don't just jump to conclusion, because that is truly not an exercise, it may cause you more harm at the end of the day. Many of our problems are caused by how we process what happens around us. Don't judge a situation you have never been in. Be humble enough to learn. You do not know it all! There are two sides to a story. Don't believe everything you hear. Investigate before proper action. 

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A Diary Or A Bracelet?

At 1:30 pm the school bell rang. I ran towards the school gate. My physics teacher called me to the Library. I went with him. He took a book from the first shelf and told me to read the first and the last page. When I opened the first page, it was written about my physics teacher there. Then I read the last page and it shocked me. On that page there was nothing but some skull pictures.

Then suddenly a bone fell down from the book. I bent down to take that bone. When I took it in my hand, I found it was wet. Then I looked around and there was nobody. My eyes were searching for my physics teacher. I thought that he left the Library. I ran towards the Library gateway. I searched everywhere but did not find my teacher. My heart beats were too fast. I didn't know what to do!

Without informing any of the teachers I left the school. I reached home and ran towards my room quickly. I started to read the book. When I finished, I found out it was actually a diary! But I did not read the last page yet. When I opened the last page, only the blood was there. I was surprised because the blood was in liquid state. The pages were not wet by that blood except the last one.

I made a phone call to my physics teacher. His wife picked up the phone. She informed me that her husband died in the morning. I was shocked and scared. Then I walked towards the table to look at the diary. But that diary disappeared and only a bracelet in the skull shape was left. I was confused so much. I took that bracelet and threw it out of my window.

Still I don’t understand what it was, a diary or a bracelet! And the connection of my physics teacher with it. And from that day I have never seen my physics teacher again. Really, everything was unexplained to me! 

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