Value of life

Let's learn: Basic Human Values

First Person Account

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, philanthropist,investor, computer programmer, and inventor. In 1975, Gates ce- founded Microsoft, the world's largest PC softare company.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF or the Gates Foundation) is the largest private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It was launched in 2000 and is said to be the largest transparently operated private foundation in the tuorld. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, in controlled by its three trustees: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

In 2015 Government of India awarded The Padma Bhusban the third bighest civilian award of The Republic of India for Gates and his wife Melinda for their contribution in Social work.

What did you learn from the life story of Bill Gates? 

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What is Sanctity of Life

One of the most basic questions every human being needs answered is "Who am 1?" We wonder where we came from, why we are here and whether there is a purpose to our lives. How we help our children wrestle with these issues will shape their identity for a lifetime.

Human dignity is inherent rather than earned. Children should be taught to treat all people with respect -- regardless of age, color, beliefs, personality, health, wealth, intelligence, beauty While people can earn our respect based on their deeds, they are entitled to our respect based on their divine likeness.

How To make your Life more valuable? 

Given below are ideas that will help you find meaning in your life every day. 

1. Know what's important

Know what's important for you. This can include things like "family time, or read every day. It could also include ethics or principles like honesty and humility.

2. Pursue Your Passion

Pursuing your Passion in life makes life worth living, and gives our lives true meaning and purpose

3. Discover Your Life's Purpose

Is your life's purpose to help others? Is it to inspire others with your work?

4. Be Self-Aware

Remain mindful of what you do at all times, and make sure you are living life according to your lifes purpose, and what you are passionate about.

5. Focus

Rather than chasing many goals and making very little progress on them, place all of your energy on one goal Focus. 

6. Live With Compassion

Compassion should be the purpose of your life. Compassion gives meaning to life, and leads to ultimate happiness. 

7. Simplify Your Life

If you simplify your life, you'll have more time to do fulfilling things, which will make your life more meaningful. It make your overall life easier to manage also greatly improve your productivity.

8. Set Daily Goals

Create a list of 2-3 goals in the morning, before you start your day that you find fulfilling and meaningful. 

The Surgeon

Once upon a time, a boy was very ill. His father rushed him to the hospital where the attending doctor said that the boy needed emergency surgery for his appendicitis.

Unfortunately, the surgeon was not at the hospital at the time. The father was frantic and asked the staff to call him quickly. When the staff called the surgeon, he said that he was busy, and could not come. But after listening about the boy's condition, he agreed to come.

Aftar one hour, the surgeon rushed into the hospital in hurry, changed his clothes and went directly to the surgery block. He found the boy's father pacing in the hall waiting 

for the surgeon. 

On seeing him, the father yelled, "Why did you take all this time to come? Don't you know that my son's life is in danger? Don't you have any sense of responsibility?"

The surgeon smiled and said, "I am sorry, I wasn't in the hospital and I came as fast as I could after receiving the call and now, I wish you'd calm down so that I can do my work".

"Calm down?I What if your son was in this room right now, would you calm down? If your own son dies while waiting for the surgeon then what would you do?" said the father angrily. The surgeon smiled again and replied, "We will do our best and lets hope for the best".

"Hah! Its just a job for him, he doesn't care about my son!" Murmured the father

The surgery took some hours after which the surgeon went out happy. "Thank goodness! your son is saved! " And without waiting for the father's reply he carried on his way running by saying, "If you have any questions, ask the nurse".

"Look at how he's rushing away! Why is he so arrogant? He couldn't wait a while so that I ask about my son's state" Commented the father when seeing the nurse minutes after the surgeon left. The nurse answered, tears rolling down her face, "His son met with an accident yesterday. He was at another hospital when we called him for your son's surgery. And now that he saved your son's life, he left running to go back to his son's bedside."

Moral: Never judge anyone because you never know how their life is and what they are going through. 

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What did you like most in the story? 

Struggles of Our Life

Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn't know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed. Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen He filed three pots with water and placed each on high fire. 

Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes be turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs and placed them in a bowl, He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.

Turning to her, he asked. "Daughter, what do you see?"  

"Potatoes, egg and coffee,"  She hastily replied. 

"Look closer",  he said, "and touch the potatoes. "

She did noted that they were soft. 

He then asked her to take an egg and break it.  After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. 

Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.

"Father, what does this mean?" she asked. 

He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.

Which one are you?" he asked his daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?"

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