The Story Of The Man Who Was Late – a short motivational story
this is the story of a man who being late for a trip arrived at a railroad station and jumped onto the first available train exhausted he dozed off for a while and then upon waking up saw the train rumbling along at full speed towards an unknown destination he began asking everyone where the train was going complaining aloud and finally crying and shouting he demanded that the train stop to let him off and the more excited he became the more the other passengers eerily silent and unfazed seemed puzzled by his behavior finally a kind old man told him don’t you know this train has only one destination the ocean depths from which no one ever returns once we are born our final destination is death the deep ocean why fret and fuss all we can do is to use our time on earth to develop the buddha mind seeking enlightenment for ourselves and others you see in life in your life everybody dies but not everybody lives once we are born the only certainty we have is that one day we are going to die so although you cannot control that you can make the best out of this train ride called life don’t complain or moan because there are some things that you cannot control instead of cursing the darkness light a candle and make light and make the best out of each and every day you have this is there to do motivation stories and stay blessed you
