*Marriage proposal for Swami Vivekananda in the USA*

```When Swami Vivekananda went to the United States, a woman approached him and asked to marry her. Vivekananda was surprised and wanted to know the reason of such desire. The lady replied, she was amazed by Vivekananda's intellect and wanted to have a child with similar intellect.
Vivekananda listened to her points and replied, "I understand why you are desirous to marry me, but it'll take a long time to get a grown-up child with intellect like me. I can give you a better option at this moment. Become my mother and make me your child. That's how, your desire will be fulfilled right now."```

*The lady was speechless.*

SMALL STORY

What a beautiful message...!

A young girl and her father were walking along a forest path.
At some point, they came across a large tree branch on the ground in front of them.

The girl asked her father, “If I try, do you think I could move that branch?”
Her father replied, “I am sure you can, if you use all your strength.”

The girl tried her best to lift or push the branch, but she was not strong enough and she couldn't move it.

She said, with disappointment, “You were wrong, dad. I can't move it.”

“Try again with all your strength,” replied her father.

Again, the girl tried hard to push the branch. She struggled but it did not move.

“Dad, I cannot do it,” said the girl.

Finally her father said, “Young lady, I advised you to use 'all your strength'. You didn’t ask for my help.

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*_Moral :_*
*Our real strength lies not in independence, but in interdependence.*
*No individual person has all the strengths, all the resources and all the stamina required for the complete blossoming of their vision.*

*To ask for help and support when we need it is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of wisdom.*