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 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:33 am
A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them
fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit
was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The
two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit
with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop,
that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took
heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down
and died.
The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again,
the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He
jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the
other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?" The frog explained to
them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the
entire time.
This story teaches two lessons:
1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging
word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it
through the day.
2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes
to kill them.
Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your
path. The power of words... it is sometimes hard to understand
that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak
words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in
difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time
to encourage another.
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:55 am
Hey, this is good. Scarily enough, it's relevant to something that happened at my school today... weird, huh?
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:45 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:48 am
Bravo. You have made me smile.
I suppose there is some sort of critique in order, though as I don't see this as a short story in the regular sense, I shall simply skip the critique on the writing style and grammatical corrections and such and dole solely on the message.
I found the message bloody brilliant. Aside from the two you mentioned, it's a simple way of saying that you should never, never give up because of what someone says. Never give up, never stand down, and you will achieve what you set out to do. It proves that if you tune out everything around you and focus on your task at hand, you will finish it. You will reach what you're striving for if you try your hardest. And that's a real message that everyone can use to bring a bit of light into a dark day. I rather enjoyed it. heart
-Mr. Knox
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