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“For watering the plants or helping out at home you will get two points each and once you
reach the total of ten you will get fifty rupees again. In short for the rest of the month you will have to earn
for yourself. Do you think you can do it?”
“Great idea Mom, when do we set the ball rolling?”
“Tomorrow. Its Sunday, you may start work.”
Sunday morning Sandy was up and about. One hour of cleaning earned him rupees fifty. He
was thrilled but tired. He slept after lunch and woke up to finish his home work just in time. The
weekend passed quickly. Monday morning, he woke up to water the plants, before rushing off to
school. For lunch he had a burger and a soft drink. Gosh! He was left with only twenty five rupees. For
the rest of the week he could buy just a small bottle of Pepsi every day. He would have to settle with
mamma’s nutritious recipes. It was difficult. But he had to prove himself. By Friday, he could just
manage 15 points, meaning seventy five rupees.
On Saturday morning, he groaned when he saw the car. It required washing.
“How could Dad do this to me?” he mumbled to himself. “I have my home work and project
work too.”
But Sunday evening he was a rich lad, with 175 rupees in his pocket.
“Sandy, what will you do with this money, why don’t you take us out for a movie?”
At this Sandy exclaimed, “Mom this is my hard earned money. I can’t dole it out like that. I'll think
about it next week.”
That night Sandy couldn’t help thinking. Yes, he had learnt the value of money because he
realized that it was so hard to earn. He now decided to spend his pocket money judiciously. Next
morning, he left his hard earned money at home and happily munched at the delicious burger which
his Mom had prepared with a dash of love.
- Geeta Yadav (West)
MORNING THOUGHT
Start your day with good thoughts ...
If you want something you never had, do something you have never done.
Don’t go the way life takes you.
Take life the way you want to go.
And remember you are born to live and
Not living because you are born.
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- Master Abhishek Singh (West)