This is a good story.

2 years ago · Quote · #1

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.

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A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."

I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

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Moral of the Story is ___________________.

What do you think?

2 years ago · Quote · #2
orangehonda

We can know something intellectually but when we know it in a personal way, usually by relating it to personal experience, we have a deeper understanding and can more fully appreciate it.

People understood he was blind and needed help, but it wasn't until they related it to themselves that they were willing to do something about it.

People aren't heartless, you just have to know how to communicate to their heart could be another moral along the lines of communication or morality instead of knowledge and understanding.

What does this have to do with chess? Are we doing your homework here?
2 years ago · Quote · #3
oinquarki

If the kid is blind, then how could he have made the sign?
2 years ago · Quote · #4
Streptomicin

Q, Plz, this is very nice story. Don't ruin it. How did kid write 2nd sign? There is your answer.

And to answer honda, cuz nothing that you post in off topic ever show up so people could see it.
2 years ago · Quote · #5
Estragon

orangehonda wrote: What does this have to do with chess? Are we doing your homework here?

The boy was saving up to play in a blind chess tournament. Give the kid a break!
2 years ago · Quote · #6
orangehonda

oinquarki wrote:

If the kid is blind, then how could he have made the sign?

Blind doesn't mean you can't write. Also it doesn't say he made the sign in the first place
2 years ago · Quote · #7
NM OmarCayenne

Eek. Reminds me of the song "One Tin Soldier." Once upon a time I thought "hey, what a beautiful story"...now I'm inclined to think: "If you bury some diddly note and call it a treasure, you sort of deserve to get your butt whupped."

All I see here is the following: 1) heaping guilt on the sighted; 2) implying you're a "second-class citizen" just because you're missing one of the senses. Anyway, the whole thing seems to me pretty smug and classroom-y.
2 years ago · Quote · #8
Streptomicin

1) heaping guilt on the sighted

That one.
2 years ago · Quote · #9
Gunnsibeib

orangehonda wrote:

oinquarki wrote:

If the kid is blind, then how could he have made the sign?

Blind doesn't mean you can't write. Also it doesn't say he made the sign in the first place

plus, you're an idiot, it doesn't make any difference
2 years ago · Quote · #10
empujamadera

The moral of the story? It's all about marketing and advertising.
2 years ago · Quote · #11
oinquarki

Gunnsibeib wrote:

orangehonda wrote:

oinquarki wrote:

If the kid is blind, then how could he have made the sign?

Blind doesn't mean you can't write. Also it doesn't say he made the sign in the first place

plus, you're an idiot, it doesn't make any difference

Who, me?
2 years ago · Quote · #12
BillyIdle

The moral of the story is only a teacher could tell that story.

The blind American musician and singer Raul Midon remarked, "There are things, as a blind person, that you don't have to see". So blindness can have a few compensations. I knew Ray Charles, and I think ability with music or musical talent can be one of those compensations (paid or unpaid). Ray liked a good joke. He probably would have appreciated your story.