Story of Appreciation

One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company. He passed the first interview, the Director did the last interview, made the last decision.

The Director discovered from the CV, that the youth's academic result is excellent all the way, from secondary school until postgraduate research, never has a year he did not score.

The Director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the youth answered "none".

The Director asked, " Was it your father who paid for your school fees?" the youth answered, my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my mother who paid for my school fees.

The Director asked, " Where did your mother work?" the youth answered, my mother worked as clothes cleaner. The director requested the youth to show his hand, the youth showed a pair of hand that is smooth and perfect to the director.

The Director asked, " Did you ever help your mother wash the clothes before?" The youth answered, never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books, furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me.

The director said, I had a request, when you go back today, go and help to clean your mother's hand, and then see me tomorrow morning.

The youth felt that his chance of landing the job is high, when he went back, he happily wanted to clean his mother's hand, his mother felt strange, happy but mixed with fear, she showed her hand to the kid.

The youth cleaned his mother's hand slowly, his tear dropped down as he did that. It was the first time he found his mother's hand so wrinkled, and there were so many bruises in her hand. Some bruises incited pain so strong that shivered her mother's body when cleaned with water.

This was the first time the youth realized and experienced that it was this pair of hands that washed the clothes everyday to earn him the school fees, the bruises in the mother's hand is the price that the mother paid for his graduation and academic excellence and probably his future.

After finishing cleaning his mother's hands, the youth quietly cleaned all remaining clothes for his mother.

That night, mother and son talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went to the Director's office

The Director noticed the tear in the youth's eye, asked: " Can you tell me what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"

The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hand, and also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes'

The director asked, " please tell me your feelings"

The youth said, Number 1, I now know what is appreciation, without my mother, there would not be the successful me today. Number 2, I now know how to work together with my mother, then only I can realize how difficult and tough to get something done. Number 3, I now know the importance and value of family relationship.

The director said, " This is what I am asking, I want to recruit a person that can appreciate the help of other, a person that knew the suffering of others to get thing done, and a person that would not put money as his only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired.

Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates, every employees worked diligently and in a team, the company's result improved tremendously.

A child who has been protected and habitually given whatever he did, he developed "entitlement mentality" and always put himself first. He is ignorance of his parent's effort. When he started work, he assumed every people must listen to him, and when he became a manager, he would never know how suffering his employee and always blame others. For this kind of people, he can have good result, may be successful for a while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement, he will grumble and full of hatred and fight for more. If we are this kind of protective parent, did we love the kid or destroy the kid?

You can let your kid lived in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experienced it. After a meal, let them washed their plate and bowl together with their brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way. You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parent are, one day their hair will grow gray, same as the mother of that young person. The most important thing is your kid learn how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learn the ability to work with others to get thing done.