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What goes Around comes Around, indeed.

I am back. When I say this,  I remember that I had gone somewhere or lost in the professional world, while otherwise I used to hover around Techie....

That reminds me of a century old adage, What goes Around comes Around. Just like a Australian Boomerang.

 

I would want to reinforce this adage by letting you know of a True Story that happened early in 19th century in a hamlet in England. (excuse if someone could say it is not 19th but 18th Century- date is not important but the real life incident is :P)

 

It is always Nice to start the day with a postive real life story....

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to eke out 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 take him and give him a good education. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud of." And that he did.

In time, Farmer Fleming's son 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 nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved him? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.  His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill. 

 

Ya, Someone once had said what goes around comes around.
 

 

Is it not a good way to start the day with the inspiring true one. Have a great day.

 

Thanks

 

 

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