“Can you imagine I started my business in this room? I feature in the Fortune 500 list today.”
“Your achievements have been lauded by the media. The drooping blades of this ceiling fan tell a different story.”
“It could be the humidity and moisture. My office is now located in a prime business location.”
“The blades represent what you left behind. Your mother still lives in this house, and cannot walk straight.”
The business magnate was speechless, for the first time in his life. He walked inside with heavy footsteps.
“Mom, I’m back.”
An eerie silence pervaded the room. Death?
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How sad. I hope he is not too late. Great story.
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Thanks!
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Wow. This is one of those “stop and think” stories. It may have been even more effective if you’d left out that final word, leaving us to imagine our own endings.
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Good suggestion to weave in suspense. Thanks!
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Hopefully his mother is okay and he gets a second chance to be a decent chap.
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The positive continues to draw us 🙂
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Nicely written. Captured the hard truth well.
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Thanks, Jaya! Thanks for dropping by…
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Should never forget your roots. Hope he gets a chance to make things right.
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Thanks for reading and commenting!
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Improving oneself is something to be proud of, but never, ever forget where you come from.
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Ideally, yes!
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That’s a hard hitting story. There’s been a big human cost to his success.
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We never know the real stories behind the trends of business storytelling 🙂
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Very true and very well illustrated. How callous we can be on occasions, though I lack the circumstances to be so in this manner 🙂
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Too busy looking forward to his success, to look back to his history. Is it too late?? 😯
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Maybe … Thanks for reading and commenting.
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How often the rich and successful forget where they came from.
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They treat the journey as a badge of honor. I come across several talks and reality shows, where participants do not hesitate from exposing their family’s unfortunate circumstances to glorify their own journey.
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