Forward This!

Based on the story by Loren Eisley…

Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf’s edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.

The man was stuck by the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, “You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can’t possibly make a difference.” The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, “It sure made a difference to that one!”

“ano? yan lang di mo pa kayang gawin at iuutos mo pa sa akin? “

“hello! gawin mo na iyan noh para naman huwag mong makalimutan kung paano mag-isip. Nakakatakot baka kinakalawang na pala utak mo dahil hindi nagagamit.”

“boss, makinig ka kaya sa akin!”

“puwede ba, busy ako? “

“make your own f–ing letters and presentations.”

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Last week, when Pedro went to Manila with a couple of friends heading toward Punta Fuego, in Batangas, they decided to stop at a comfort station in a relatively new Gas station in Tagaytay.

Being a new gas station, this place would have a clean banyo and clean facility to take a good crap : ) The first stall was occupied, so Pedro went into the second one.

Just when Pedro was seated and poised to emit a very “silent” fart, he heard a voice from the next toilet:

“Hi, how are you doing?”

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A woman decides to have a face lift for her birthday. She spends $5000 and feels pretty good about the results. On her way home, she stops at a newsstand to buy a newspaper. Before leaving she says to the clerk, “I hope you don’t mind my asking, but how old do you think I am?”

“About 32,” is the reply.

“I’m exactly 47,” the woman says happily.

A little while later she goes into McDonald’s and asks the counter girl the very same question. She replies, “I guess about 29.”

“Nope, I’m 47.”

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Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster.

They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and started off the race.

The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he’d sit under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race. He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep.

The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ.

The hare woke up and realized that he’d lost the race.

This is the version of the story that we’ve all grown up with.

The moral- “Slow and steady wins the race.”

THE STORY DOESN’T END HERE

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