On his first day, as President, Abraham Lincoln entered to give
his inaugural address, just in the middle, one man stood up. He was a rich
aristocrat. He said, “Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used
to make shoes for my family”. And the whole Senate laughed; they thought they
had made a fool of Abraham Lincoln.
But Lincoln – and that type of people are made of totally
different mettle, looked at the man and said, “Sir, I know that my father used
to make shoes for your family, and there will be many others here …… because
the way he made shoes; nobody else can. He was a creator. His shoes were not
just shoes, he poured his whole soul into it. I want to ask you, have you any
complaint? Because I know how to make shoes myself if you have any complaint I
can make another pair of shoes. But as far as I know, nobody has ever
complained about my father’s shoes. He was a genius, a creator and I am proud
of my father”.
The entire Senate was struck dumb. They could not understand
what kind of man Abraham Lincoln was. He had made shoe making an art, a
creativity. And he was proud because his father did the job so well that not
even a single complaint had ever been heard.
Moral of the story:
It does not matter what you do. What matter is how you do it –
of your own accord, with your own vision, with your own love. Then what ever
you touch becomes gold.

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