On the 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 a totally different
mettle. Lincoln looked at the man and said, “Sir I know that my father
used to make shoes in your house 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 in 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 great creator and I am proud of my
father”.
The whole Senate was struck dumb. They could not understand what kind of
man Abraham Lincoln was. He was proud because his father did the job so
well that not even a single complaint had ever been heard.
Remember:
“No one can hurt you without your consent.”
“It is not what happens to us that hurts us. It is our response that
hurts us.”
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