Be careful who you associate with.

A Scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, asked a Turtle to carry him on his back across a river.

"Are you crazy?" exclaimed the Turtle. "You'll sting me while I'm swimming and I'll drown."

"My dear turtle," laughed the scorpion, "if I were to sting you, You would drown and I would go down with you. Now where is the logic in that?"

"You're right!" cried the turtle. "Hop on!"

The scorpion climbed aboard and halfway across the river gave the turtle a mighty sting. As they both sank to the bottom, the turtle resignedly said: "Do you mind if I ask you something? You said there'd be no Logic in your stinging me. Then why did you do it?"

"It has nothing to do with logic," the drowning scorpion sadly replied. "It's just my character."

WINNERS VERSUS LOSERS

The Winner is always part of the answer;

The Loser is always part of the problem.

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The Winner always has a program;

The Loser always has an excuse.

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The Winner says, "Let me do it for you";

The Loser says, "That is not my job."

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The Winner sees an answer for every problem;

The Loser sees a problem for every answer.

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The Winner says, “It may be difficult but it is possible ";

The Loser says, "It may be possible but it is too difficult."

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When a Winner makes a mistake, he says, "I was wrong";

when a Loser makes a mistake, he says, "It wasn't my fault."

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A Winner makes commitments;

A Loser makes promises.

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Winners have dreams;

Losers have schemes.

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Winners say, “I must do something ";

Losers say, "Something must be done."

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Winners are a part of the team;

Losers are apart from the team.

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Winners see the gain;

Losers see the pain.

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Winners see possibilities;

Losers see problems.

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Winners believe in win-win;

Losers believe for them to win someone has to lose.

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Winners see the potential;

Losers see the past.

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Winners are like a thermostat;

Losers are like thermometers.

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Winners choose what they say;

Losers say what they choose.

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Winners use hard arguments but soft words;

Losers use soft arguments but hard words.

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Winners stand firm on values but compromise on petty things;

Losers stand firm on petty things but compromise on values.

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Winners follow the philosophy of empathy:
"Don't do to others what you would not want them to do to you";

Losers follow the philosophy:
“Do it to others before they do it to you."

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Winners make it happen;

Losers let it happen.

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Winners plan and prepare to win.The key word is preparation.

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Little girl and her father were crossing a bridge.

The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter,
"Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river."

The little girl said, "No, Dad. You hold my hand."

"What's the difference?" Asked the puzzled father.

"There's a big difference," replied the little girl.
"If I hold your hand and something happens to me,
chances are that I may let your hand go.
But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens,
you will never let my hand go."

In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond.

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Diplomatic slap

Musharaf, Manmohan, Aishwarya rai and Sonia are travellingin a train.
The train goes through a tunnel and it getscompletely dark.
Suddenly there is a kissing sound andthen a slap!
The train comes out of the tunnel.
Thewomen and Manmohan are sitting there lookingperplexed.
Musharaf is bent over holding his face, which is red froman apparent slap.
All of them remain diplomatic andnobody says anything.

Sonia is thinking: These Pakistani are all crazy after Aishwarya. Musharafmust have tried to kiss her in the tunnel. Very proper that she slapped him.

Aishwarya is thinking: Musharaf must have tried to kiss me but kissed Soniainstead and got slapped.

Musharaf is thinking: Damn it. Manmohan must have tried to kiss Aishwarya.
She might have thought it was me and slapped me.

Manmohan is thinking: If this train goes through another tunnel I will make another kissing sound and slap Musharaf again ...

life

Gone are the Days....

When
The school reopened in June, and we settled in our new desks and benches!

When

We queued up in book depot, and got our new books and notes!

When

We wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.

When

We learnt writing with slates and pencils, and progressed to fountain pens and ball pens and then Micro tips!

When

We began drawing with crayons and evolved to color pencils and finally sketch pens!

When

We started calculating first with tables and then with Clarke's tables and advanced to Calculators and Computers!

When

We chased one another in the corridors in Intervals, and returned to the classrooms drenched in sweat!

When

W e had lunch in classrooms, corridors, playgrounds, under the trees and even in cycle sheds!

When

All the colors in the world, decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays!

When

A single P.T. period in the week's Time-Table was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons!

When

Cricket was played with writing pads as bats, and Neckties and socks rolled into balls!

When

Few played kabadi and Kho-Kho in scorching sun, while others simply played book cricket in the Confines of classroom!

Of fights but no conspiracies, Of Competitions but seldom jealousy!

When

We used to watch Live Cricket telecast, in the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks!

When

Few rushed at 3:45 to conquer window seats in our School bus! While few others had Big Fun, peppermint, Kulfi, milk ice and sharbat at 4 O’clock!

Gone are the days

Of Sports Day, and the annual School Day, and the one-month long preparations for them.

Gone are the days

Of the stressful Quarterly, Half Yearly and Annual Exams, and the most enjoyed holidays after them!

Gone are the days

When we spent almost the whole year writing revision tests of tenth and twelfth standards,

We learnt,

We enjoyed,

We played,

We won,

We lost,

We laughed,

We cried,

We fought,

We thought.

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So much fun in them, so many friends,

So much experience, all this and more!

Gone are the days

When we used to talk for hours with our friends!

Now we don't have time to say a `Hi'!

Gone are the days

When we played games on the road!

Now we code on the road with laptop!

Gone are the days

When we saw stars shining at Night!

Now we see stars when our code doesn't Work!

Gone are the days

When we sat to chat with Friends on grounds!

Now we chat in chat rooms.....!

Gone are the days

Where we studied just to pass!

Now we study to save our job!

Gone are the days

Where we had no money in our pockets and still fun filled on our hearts!!

Now we have the ATM as well as Credit Card but with an empty heart!!

Gone are the days

Where we shouted on the road!

Now we don't shout even at home

Gone are the days

Where we got lectures from all!

Now we give lectures to all...!!

Gone are the days

But not the memories, which will be lingering in our hearts

For ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.....

Gone are the Days.... But still there are lot more Days to come in our Life!!

NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE, DONT FORGET TO

LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL EXISTS......