An interesting story of Japanese origin. In order to renovate the house, an elderly gentleman in Japan broke open the wall. Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls to absorb the shock due to seismic activities. When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside hammered into one of its feet. He sees this, and feels sad. He is still curious, because nail, hammered a year or so back, when the house was renovated.
The lizard has survived in such a position for very a long time! In a dark wall partition without moving, it is impossible and mind boggling. Then he wondered how this lizard survived without moving a single step-since its foot was nailed! So he stopped his work and observed the lizard.
Later, not knowing from where it came, appeared another lizard, with food in its mouth. For the lizard that was stuck by nail, another lizard has been feeding it since then. It had been doing this untiringly without giving up hope on its partner.
I was touched when I heard this story and started wondering about relationships between family members, friends, coworkers, brothers, sisters.
How many times do we at all, stretch our arms to help someone in need? It could be a friend, a colleague or a relative. It's time to think.
Remember:
If you help enough people get what they want, you'll get what you want.
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