The Black Dot

One day, Professor Xavier entered his classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They all waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin.


The Professor X. handed out the test questions with the text facing down, as usual. Once he handed them all out, he asked the students to turn over the papers.


To everyone’s surprise, there were no questions–just a black dot in the center of the paper.


The Professor, seeing the expression on everyone’s faces, told them the following:

“I want you to write about what you see there.”


The students, confused, got started on the inexplicable task.


At the end of the class, the professor took all the answer sheet and started reading each one of them out loud in front of all the students.


All of them, with no exception, defined the black dot, trying to explain its position in the center of the sheet. After all had been read, the classroom silent, the professor started to explain:


“I’m not going to grade you on this, I just wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the white part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot – and the same thing happens in our lives.

However, we insist on focusing only on the black dot – the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the complicated relationship with a family member, the disappointment with a friend. The dark spots are very small when compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds.


Take your eyes away from the black dots in your lives. Enjoy each one of your blessings, each moment that life gives you.

Be happy and live a life filled with love!”


Have a blissful week...
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Four Letter Words!!!

Okon was born into the family of Mr. & Mrs Paul Okon after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and young Okon was the apple of their eyes. When he was around two years old, one morning Mr Okon saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for work so he asked the wife to cap the bottle and keep it on the cupboard. The mother, who was a little bit preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.



Little Okon saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle and, fascinated with its color, drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages.

Instantly Okon collapsed, the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband.


When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just four words.

What do you think were the four words?


The husband just said
"I Love You Darling"



The husband's totally unexpected reaction is proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he have taken time to keep the bottle away, this will not have happened. No point in attaching blame. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.



Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or who to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. We miss out some warmth in human relationship in giving each other support. After all, shouldn't forgiving someone we love be the easiest thing in the world to do? Treasure what you have. Don't multiply pain, anguish and suffering by holding on to forgiveness.


If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unwillingness to forgive, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.

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