| Confidence |
March 31, 2013
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| She went to the restaurant where he and a girl were on a date. She went over to their table and said to the girl, "He is cheating you. He loves me, not you." They were speechless. The girl asked him, "Who is this woman?" The man soon recovered from the shock of the situation and said, "She is my old girlfriend; it was long time ago." What he said was not altogether correct; it was only two weeks ago that he told her that he wanted to break off their relationship. It was so sudden that she couldn't understand what had happened, and asked him for the reason. He only said that she was boring, and left. The girl asked him, "So why is she here now?" He said, "She must suffer from dementia or something." The girl said brightly, "You shouldn't say that to a lady, even if she is rude." But the girl's brightness didn't last for long. She grabbed the plate of spaghetti on the table and threw it at the girl. The tomato spaghetti  hit the girl's white dress, and the girl cursed her badly. He tried to wipe the girl's clothes but it only spread the stain over the girl's breasts. The girl punched him in the nose and began to cry. The blood ran from his nose, and as he tried to wipe it away, the tomato sauce that was on his hand mixed with the blood, leaving his face bright red. It was funny she thought, and quickly left the restaurant. Walking on the street, she wondered why she loved those type of cheap guys. They weren't handsome or smart or rich or gentle or muscular, although she never liked the muscular type. She thought, "Why don't I love more decent guys? Maybe I don't have confidence about myself and think decent guys are not suitable for me. If I had greater self-confidence..." Suddenly a voice sounded from the sky. "Why don't you have confidence?" She was surprised and looked up to the sky but nothing was there. She said to herself, "There is nothing special about me." The voice said, "I don't think so." This time she didn't look up and said, "No. My working place is terrible; I am not smart; I don't have any specific skills; no sense about sports; no sense about musics; no sense about cooking." She weakly laughed. The voice said, "At least you have the sense to recognize that the guy is cheap." She said, "That doesn't help any. Besides, I'm not pretty." "You are attractive enough." She shook her head. After a pause, the voice said, "I have an idea." "What's that?" "I have nine cards and I'll give you one. Each card has a word... 'music', sports', 'business' etc, etc; I'll give you confidence about the word that you choose. But a couple of cards have no words on them, and in that case, you won't get any confidence." She said, "I'd like to try." The voice said, "Ok, to choose, you need to say something like, 'second card from the right', etc. Ok?" She said, "Center." Soon a card fell down from the sky. She picked it up and looked. There was the word 'JOKER' on the card. "What's this?" she asked. The voice said, "You are very lucky. It's Joker." "What does that mean?" "It means 'almighty'. What you need to do is to think of only one word in your mind; after that, I'll give you confidence about that word." First, she couldn't understand what it meant but soon she started to laugh. "What's funny?" the voice said. She said in a cheerful voice. "This is a smart way, isn't it? If I believe that you'll give me confidence, I'll become confident. It just depends on my state of mind." She stared at the card and said to the sky. "But I like this card, thanks." |
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*confodence: the belief that you have the ability to do things well or deal with situations successfully (L)