THE BRICK

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver  then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?"

The young boy was apologetic. "Please, mister..please, I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to do," He pleaded. "I threw the brick because no one else would stop..." With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. "It's my brother, "he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up."

Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."

Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay. "Thank you and may God bless you," the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy! push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.

It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door.
He kept the dent there to remind him of this message:

"Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

That was a cute one. Thanks for sharing

Wonder if it's the XJ8 that makes me enjoy my life the way I do- LOL

Sorry, I know it was corny, but I couldn't resist the urge was way to tempting and I am feeling way to "frisky".

What can I say between being bombarded with thoughts of Jaguars, "frisky" behavior, and endless amounts of available pussy. I just wanna purr.

Now those are a few of the little things in life I enjoy. I think I need to go take a cat nap and dream sweat dreams.  LOL

Stephen R. Covey did it first and better.  "Seek first to understand, then to be understood."  habit #5.

-- Modified on 9/7/2005 9:15:35 AM

Yeah, thanks for sharing the story with us.

Sometimes life do pass us without us noticing it. I think if we all woke up in the morning and were happy and grateful for the things we had in life, instead of whining and being unhappy about the things we didn't have, we would be so much happier in general.
Also the rule should be; Don't regret the things you did, only the things you didn't.

Life is simply too short to do things you don't want to, we should all live life to the fullest...everyday.

Have a grand day everyone

-- Modified on 9/7/2005 2:32:25 PM

very quick thinking you are!