Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

-- Oswald Avery

There was once a very active boy who fell and broke his leg. He could run again in the spring, the doctors said, but only if he stayed in bed for an entire month and kept his leg still.

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

At first the boy fought the rule, but he found that the more he thought about things he couldn't do, the more tired and angry he felt.

His parents put in a phone by his bed and friends called every day. He'd never much liked talking on the phone, but he felt better when they called.

He wrote letters and got replies, and was surprised at what fun it was. Usually, he didn't have time to write letters.

He learned to play chess and began to enjoy reading.

His days were slower and quieter than he'd been used to, but he learned a month really isn't a very long time.

When spring came, he was running again, a little more joyfully than before.

When we can learn to accept our troubles, we find, like the boy, that they are just packages in which new growth and discoveries are wrapped.

For no actual process happens twice;

only we meet the same sort of occasion again.

-- Suzanne K. Langer

Today is not going to be like yesterday. Nor will it resemble tomorrow.

Each day is special and promises us many new ideas -- perhaps the chance to make a friend, or to learn something interesting from a teacher or a book.

Some activities today will be familiar, just like playing a game for the second, third, or tenth time is familiar.

And yet, the way each player moves the pieces around the board will be different.

The excitement about today is that it is full of surprises.

Every thing we do, every conversation we have, will not be repeated in just the same way again, and this reminds us how special each of us is.

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11/03/2024