Live and Work 18 comments
Father was a hardworking man who delivered bread as a living to support his wife and three children. He spent all his evenings after work attending classes, hoping to improve himself so that he could one day find a better paying job. Except for Sundays, Father hardly ate a meal together with his family. He worked and studied very hard because he wanted to provide his family with the best money could buy.
Whenever the family complained that he was not spending enough time with them, he reasoned that he was doing all this for them. But he often yearned to spend more time with his family.
The day came when the examination results were announced. To his joy, Father passed, and with distinctions too! Soon after, he was offered a good job as a senior supervisor which paid handsomely.
Like a dream come true, Father could now afford to provide his family with life’s little luxuries like nice clothing, fine food and vacation abroad.
However, the family still did not get to see father for most of the week. He continued to work very hard, hoping to be promoted to the position of manager. In fact, to make himself a worthily candidate for the promotion, he enrolled for another course in the open university.
Again, whenever the family complained that he was not spending enough time with them, he reasoned that he was doing all this for them. But he often yearned to spend more time with his family.
Father’s hard work paid off and he was promoted. Jubilantly, he decided to hire a maid to relieve his wife from her domestic tasks. He also felt that their three-room flat was no longer big enough, it would be nice for his family to be ablt to enjoy the facilities and comfort of a condominium. Having experienced the rewards of his hard work many times before, Father resolved to further his studies and work at being promoted again. The family still did not get to see much of him. In fact, sometimes Father had to work on Sundays entertaining clients. Again, whenever the family complained that he was not spending enough time with them, he reasoned that he was doing all this for them. But he often yearned to spend more time with his family.
As expected, Father’s hard work paid off again and he bought a beautiful condominium overlooking the coast of Singapore. On the first Sunday evening at their new home, Father declared to his family that he decided not to take anymore courses or pursue any more promotions. From then on he was going to devote more time to his family.
Father did not wake up the next day.
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18 Responses to: Live and Work
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eric -- 30 Nov 08 at 1:23 pm
wow, thats sad…..
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pooja -- 14 Feb 09 at 4:44 am
It was a nice story we should learn that we should spend some of the time with our b’coz God knows what will happen tomorrow …!!!@@@
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M@M -- 17 Feb 09 at 4:03 am
we should not wait to be happy,with our journey we should give importance to what we should need in the life..
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ndoumah victor -- 2 Apr 09 at 8:54 am
- We should be contented with the little we have.
- We should try and spend much time with our families and our love ones. For the company in which we work can replace us in a couple of days. But our love ones will miss us forever.
- One, two, or three complains, should make us reason good a little. -
INDER BRAR -- 14 May 09 at 2:55 am
THIS IS GOOD STORY FOR OUR LIFE……..WE CAN LEARN MANYTHINGS FROM THIS STORY
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Saravanan -- 22 May 09 at 4:00 am
I am very emotional now because I am just like the Father. But.. promise.. no more…
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Sareesh Madhurakavi -- 16 Sep 09 at 10:55 pm
But what can the Father do………………..
did he had a option to prosper in other way -
Mubi -- 25 Sep 09 at 5:47 pm
A very nice moral story. I thinks its not work or home where we need to keep balance but all aspects of life.
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kari--- -- 30 Nov 09 at 3:21 pm
This was sad…:*(
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imtiaz hussain -- 2 Dec 09 at 10:36 pm
nice story, we should take care of our family all the times
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Awesome -- 22 Dec 09 at 9:51 pm
The point of this story is probably to be happy with what you have, money isn’t important, and you don’t live long.
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M.A.Majeed -- 18 Jan 10 at 8:27 am
Really touching story which give a clear idea of balancing our life and career. Our loved one are equally important to our work.
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Moses.I -- 19 Jan 10 at 12:51 pm
Do what you can with what you have and where you are. God knows how much to give, so don’t try to spend all time earning money instead experience some love with family, friends which is very essential for your long term happiness.
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kattu-chambu -- 26 Jan 10 at 3:38 am
some thing we achieve, some thing we lose; the more we achieve, more things we lose. solution is to live for means; find happiness in small things….
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Thats nice -- 2 Feb 10 at 11:12 am
I m feeling very sad…..its really touched my heart, v should make a balance wth our work n our family
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k santhosh -- 6 Feb 10 at 2:17 am
Be happy with what we are, now a days earning is also very much important in human life, but in earning don’t forget the life, give importance to the human values, spending time with family with little earning is better than not spending much time with family with much earning.
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Rosie -- 9 Feb 10 at 12:40 am
reminds me of my father and fiancee… We dont have any children but i can see that in him so i always try to remind from time to time that i rather be poor if thats what it takes to have spend more time with his family. -
sridhar -- 12 Mar 10 at 2:11 am
Wants are unlimited, instead of running with money, spent some time with family and friends
