Put the glass down - ??Happy Monday??

The Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it.

He held it up for all to see and asked the students, “How much do you think this glass weighs?”

’50gms!’….. ‘100gms!’ …..’125 gms’ …the students answered.

“I really don’t know unless I weigh it,” said the professor, “but, my question is: What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?”

‘Nothing’ …..the students said.

‘Ok, what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?’ the professor asked.

‘Your arm would begin to ache’, said one of the student.

“You’re right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?”

“Your arm could go numb; you might have severe muscle stress and paralysis and have to go to the hospital for sure!”…..

ventured another student and all the students laughed.

“Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?”, asked the professor.

“No”…. was the answer.

“Then what caused the arm ache and the muscle stress?”

The students were puzzled.

“What should I do now to come out of pain?” asked professor again.

“Put the glass down!” said one of the students.

“Exactly!” said the professor.

Moral of the story:

Life’s problems are something like that.

Hold it for a few minutes in your head and they seem OK.

Think of them for a long time and they begin to ache.

Hold it even longer and they begin to paralyze you.

You will not be able to do anything.

It is important to think of the challenges or problems in your life, but even more important is to put them down at the end of every day before you go to sleep.

That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh and strong and can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!

“Worry destroys our intelligence, charm, and eloquence. Worry is a very unfortunate thing. In fact, it is like funeral pyre – since it burns us alive. ”

Since worrying about the problem does not in any way help us in finding a solution for the same, we should not brood over the problems too much.

All of us have some problem or the other in our life.

Many times we would have experienced that the moment we think that something is solved and take a sigh of relief, we find many more problems queued up in line and waiting to pounce upon us.

Mere worrying about the problem would not help us find any solution for the same.

Rather it only causes a bad impact on our physical and mental health. In this regard, we came across a following instructive short story which shows the importance of not brooding over the problems.

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