[nukkad] Quality

["Shaurya Prabhat" <"Shaurya Prabhat" <vintage_shaurya@hotmail.com>>]

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Build Quality Into Your House





An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of 
his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life 
with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he 
needed to retire. They could get by.

The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build 
just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it 
was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy 
workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his 
career.

When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, 
the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter.  "This is your 
house," he said, "my gift to you."  

What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, 
he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had 
built none too well. 

So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than 
acting, willing to put up less  than the best. At important points we do not 
give the job our best effort.  Then with a shock we look at the situation we 
have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we 
had realized, we would have done it differently.

Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think of your life as the house. Each day 
you hammer a nail, place a board or erect a wall, build wisely.  It is the only 
life you will ever build.  Even if you live it for only one day more, that day 
deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity. 

The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project, do it to the 
best of your ability." 






 



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