Chiếc
đồng hồ ông kia lạc mất,
Chắc
một điều quanh quất trong kho.
Đồng hồ giá nó rất to,
Ông hứa phần thưởng ban cho
kẻ nào...
Một
đám trẻ nhảy vào tìm khắp
Dưới cầu thang, trên nắp thùng thư.
Đào đào, bới bới mệt nhừ,
Đồng hồ không thấy, hình như
mất rồi.
Ông
chủ ra lệnh thôi tìm kiếm;
Bỗng
một em nhỏ đến xin ông,
Cho nó một dịp cuối cùng.
Ông đồng ý, và khoảng chừng
lúc sau,
Nó mang đồng hồ vào lãnh thưởng.
Ông
ngạc nhiên, vui sướng trong lòng;
Hỏi chỉ bí quyết cho ông.
Nó đáp, "Thinh lặng
trong vòng ít giây
Sẽ nghe rõ đâu đây tiếng lắc,
Cứ lần theo có chắc đồng hồ."
(Mỗi ngày mươi phút, nửa giờ,
Tĩnh lặng cuộc sống bất ngờ
đổi thay.)
Nguyễn
Tường ,
Story: The missing watch
There once was a farmer who discovered that
he had lost his watch in the barn. It was no ordinary watch because it had
sentimental value for him.
After searching high and low among the hay
for a long while; he gave up and enlisted the help of a group of children
playing outside the barn.
He promised them that the person who found
it would be rewarded.
Hearing this, the children hurried inside
the barn, went through and around the entire stack of hay but still could not
find the watch. Just when the farmer was about to give up looking for his
watch, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance.
The farmer looked at him and thought,
"Why not? After all, this kid lookssincere enough."
So the farmer sent the little boy back in
the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand! The
farmer was both happy and surprised and so he asked the boy how he succeeded
where the rest had failed.
The boy replied, "I did
nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking
of the watch and just looked for it in that direction."
Moral: A peaceful mind can think better
than a worked up mind.
Allow a few minutes of silence to your mind
every day, and see, how sharply it helps you to set your life the way you
expect it to be...!
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