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A stone in my shoe

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It was already late for me. I had to be present on the pulpit before the trainees exactly at 9 a.m. Then it was 8:45. I tightened my shoe lace finally and zoomed in to my car and drove to the seminar venue which is just over 3 Km away from my home. When I pressed the brake pedal for stopping my car outside the seminar hall, I felt that something was pricking the second finger of my right leg. 'Ouch' I felt a little bit of pain, but certainly not required immediate attention. I parked my car and rushed to the seminar hall. For every alternate step of mine, the pricking brooked. 'What could be inside?' My thought rewound about 30 min and replayed from 8:30 a.m but with out success. I looked at my watch. Oh, God. It is 9:00. I virtually ran into the hall and stood on the dais before the trainees. "Good Morning friends...", I started delivering my prepared content. Being a trainer I had to move to every place inside the hall to bring a conducive learning atmosphe...

Mirror Life

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Yesterday I asked my 13 year old daughter and 9 year old son a question, when we were on bed before night sleep. I saw the image of the beautiful Blue night lamp on the large mirror. Immediately I asked the question, "Dear, The image which you see on the mirror glows equally as the lamp. Does it really emits the same amount of of light as the lamp?" The children took some time and answered "Yes". Then I tried to ask the same question in a different way. "Dear, Let me ask you it another way, See. Here is the tube light which is illuminating this room with about 50 Watts of power. If the tube light is made to reflect on two more mirrors, do you think the room will receive more illumination equal to 150 watts?. After taking some time, they replied "Yes". Now I decided to clear the riddle and explained. "No, Dear. The Light from the bulb is just reflected as an image on the mirror. It doesn't carry any light on its own, similar to the moon, whic...