{"id":454,"date":"2020-10-15T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T06:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ranjith.ml\/?p=454"},"modified":"2023-03-08T04:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:06:47","slug":"a-sweet-short-story-with-a-great-lesson-worth-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"A sweet short story with a great lesson worth reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nearby, a building construction work was going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of poor labourers were working there and their small children used to hold onto one another&#8217;s shirt and play &#8220;train-train&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone would become the engine and others would become bogies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every day these children used to take turns becoming the engine and bogies &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there was one small boy wearing only a half pant who used to hold one small green cloth in his hand and become the guard daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So once I went to him and asked him ..&#8221;beta, don&#8217;t u also wish to become an engine or a bogie some time ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He softly replied ..&#8221; Sir , I don&#8217;t have a shirt to wear so how will the other children catch me to make the train?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could see the slight wetness in his eyes..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But It gave me a lesson&#8230;. he could have cried and sat at home and abused his parents for not affording to buy him a shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But instead he chose another way to play and enjoy himself..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In life, we don&#8217;t get all things we desire and we keep complaining ..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I dont have a bike, I don&#8217;t have car , I don&#8217;t have this or that etc&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is like that &#8230;.we need to make it beautiful and be grateful for what we have ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearby, a building construction work was going on. Lots of poor labourers were working there and their small children used to hold onto one another&#8217;s shirt and play &#8220;train-train&#8221;. Someone would become the engine and others would become bogies Every day these children used to take turns becoming the engine and bogies &#8230; But there&#8230;<a class=\"btnReadMore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/?p=454\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rvnair.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}