What goes around comes around
I have read an interesting true story here.
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His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog! He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman’s sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
“I want to repay you,” said the nobleman. “You saved my son’s life.” “No, I can’t accept payment for what I did,” the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer’s own son came to the door of the family hovel.
“Is that your son?” the nobleman asked.
“Yes,” the farmer replied proudly.
“I’ll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he’ll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.” And that he did.
Farmer Fleming’s son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman’s son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son’s name? Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.
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July 25th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Hey Alka,
Have read this before, but reading this now has kind of put things in perspective for me!!
We as humans always need to keep reminding ourselves of
“What goes around comes around.
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.”
Cheers!!
Para
July 25th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
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http://pkblogs.com/para-blogs
-Para
July 25th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
already Read but its good to read again
specially the end- we human…
July 26th, 2006 at 2:01 am
Alka ji
no comments for this post coz its contents are simply awesome… 
July 26th, 2006 at 2:05 am
(Alka ji…u can envisage the thrill that coursed thru me by seeing this post…my previous comment may not be grammatically correct but then its the feeling that matters…right? )
July 26th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Very interesting story particularly considering that I am a great fan of Sir Winston Churchill. One thing that could be added to the poem:-
Blog like nobody’s reading/ commenting?
July 26th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
Hey Alka, thanks for sharing this nice story. I read that quite a long time back but thanks for reminding What goes around comes around.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Let me add to the quotes
“Live as if your were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
Earth is too small a place for things not to come around.
July 26th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
hey i read this sumwhr.. maybe sum textbook?
July 26th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Nice to read it again, Alka.
But did I read that some one is a great fan of “Sir” Winston Churchil! Would like to let him know that if Winston Churchil had his way, he won’t have been breathing in this free air.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:58 am
A feel good story but it is an urban legend, though I agree with the conclusions. Check this out:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_winston_churchill.htm
August 5th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
yep, the story is damn good!!
yep, thats right. he was against independence of India. its just that he lost the elections, Attlee came & he voted for our independence!!
August 14th, 2006 at 1:31 am
I believe in a thing called Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/glurge/fleming.htm
February 5th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Alka,
I was just trying to get some info on the accuracy of the churchill story. That story is completely fictional.
Binu
June 11th, 2007 at 3:29 am
Hi,
why there are a lot of spam?
Where is admin?