Motivating Short Stories

Mel was invested and focused on her studies She was among the top three students in her class She had opted for her favorite stream, English literature and origin of modern language. She was excited to meet her new friends and was looking forward to learning a lot from her mentors. As she was a day scholar, she used to commute everyday from her rented home where she used to stay with other roommates. She also had taken up a part time job so that she could pay for her rent and university needs. Besides, her grandpa used to wire her little money every month in case she needed the extra money. Mel was very close to her grandpa as both grandparents took care of Mel since she lost her parents. The classes were smooth and years passed. It was time for Mel to graduate. She was prepared and was ready to clear all the exams with flying colors. However, one of the exams was postponed due to an incident at the university. The rescheduled dates were announced. However, Mel and her friends were gla...

  May never complain or criticize anyone. Ms. K once found out that May was throwing away scraps that were given to her as lunch. May hated the scraps and was throwing it away. However, Ms. K became so angry that she hit May. Another instance of the abuse was to kick May on her stomach as she was eating food after starving for a day. May held onto her stomach and was crying. Having no one to help her out, May gathered all the courage a fourteen year old could muster and decided to run away from the house that weekend when everyone was asleep.  Her plans didn't work out. May was asked to scrub pots and pans as Ms. K’s husband was planning to bring his colleagues home for dinner. May had to work more as she had more vessels to clean. She was also asked to clean the entire house and keep it spotless while Ms. K enjoyed her spa session and facial at the posh beauty parlor.   May was asked to sit quietly in her room while Ms. K latched the door. The colleagues visited the...

  It became tough for May to survive at that house. The woman, let's call her Ms. K, was a double faced person. She acted all lovey dovey to May if there were guests or someone important to her. When she was all alone at home, Ms. K would threaten her and ask her to keep working in the kitchen, ask her to keep it clean May knew that Ms. K’s husband was one of her best friends with her dad as she had seen the man hanging out with her father when she was young. However, the man never interfered or bothered to care about how May was being mistreated at the house. Other than the mental abuses like hurling bad words and gaslighting May saying that she was useless and would never succeed in life, the toxic Ms.K began to physically abuse her. May even wondered if Ms. K had a psychological issue as she was enjoying torturing May and loved her son with utmost care.  May wanted to try and contact her brother but was unaware of his whereabouts. The school authorities May was studying obs...

  May had lost her mom when she was too young to realize what had happened. She was just 5 years old.  Since then, her life was amongst her paternal grandparents. As unfortunate as her life was, she never saw her elder brother who was in the University. He was way older than her and they actually never had a bond after they had lost their mother. May never found out anything about her father or even saw him after being taken away by her grandparents.  Fate decided to be cruel to her as soon as she turned 13. She lost her grandparents to a car crash. She was devastated and wondered how she would survive. One of her uncles took her to a care home for orphans and left her there. It was a charity care home that managed to survive on the contributions of rich people. However, she made a few friends and most of them got adopted in a span of few months.  She was also adopted into a home where there was a man, his wife and their infant son, Harry. The woman was not that happ...

  Sam and Tom began working on the project individually as the higher authorities wanted. They wanted both Sam and Tom to come up with a great plan and suggest executing it sticking to the right budget. Sam, being a hard worker, sat all night and drafted a plan. However, Tom, being the slimy and selfish guy, decided to steal the entire work Sam had prepared. Once Tom grabbed the plan, he rushed to the office to present the same.  Sam was shocked to find out through the security cameras at his house that Tom had stolen his hard work and had presented it to the client. The client was confused and began asking questions. Tom began stuttering as he was unaware of the answers. However, Sam interjected and suggested solutions for the clients queries. Sam also pointed out how Tom had stolen his hard work from his house. Tom refused the accusations.  However, Sam came prepared. He showed the security cameras where he had worked hard at night preparing the plan. He also showed Tom...

  Trust is a very important aspect and not everyone deserves your trust. Some people are great manipulators who excel in convincing others that they know the situations others face and sympathize with them so that they could easily gain the trust of the other person. Once they gain the trust, it would be easy to achieve what they need easily from the other person or from his or her life.  We should be very careful on whom we trust as they could make use of our vulnerabilities at any point of time. Let's have a look at the life of two friends who had to turn into enemies due to the betrayal of one.  Sam and Tom were thick friends. Both of them believed in each other or that's what Sam has always thought. However, little did Sam know that he was too wrong about Tom. Both of them have been very passionate about building houses since childhood. Since, they graduated in architecture. Both of them were working at the same company and were handling the same project. They success...

  Clara was on the verge of tears and told Maybel and Shaun on how shattered she was and how badly she fell out of love with Kay. She told how Kay changed to be a different man who seemed to live his life completely in the world of social media and ignored her for the last few months. She was unable to take it anymore and decided to take a stern decision.  She decided to file for divorce. Maybel and Shaun offered to support her throughout the ordeal. The next Sunday rolled out. As a last request, Clara told Kay that he needs help desperately from a counselor to tackle his social media addiction. Kay just ignored her and continued staring into his phone. Clara angrily got up, placed the divorce papers under his car keys on the table and started packing.  Kay was unaware of the situation as he was staring into the phone. Clara called the movers for the evening and began packing all her stuff. As evening rolled out, she got her stuff loaded and transported to her new apartme...

Clara decided to reach out to her friend Maybel, who recommended to contact her husband, Shaun, a counselor who could help tackle the social media addiction. Clara decided to meet Sean to share her concerns with him. He listened to Clara’s woes and suggested to Clara that she bring Kay so that he could meet Kay and communicate with him. However, Clara told Sean that Kay would refuse to accompany her if he finds out that he would be meeting a counselor.  Sean then agreed to meet Kay and bring along his wife, Maybel, at their house so that Kay considers it as Clara’s friend and husband visiting them. Maybel also agreed to the idea and was glad that they could help Clara with her issues. As expected, Clara shared the news of her friend and husband visiting them during the weekend and Kay, being glued to his phone, just nodded his head and said “okay”.  Clara got up early on Sunday Morning so that she could prepare for her friend's visit. Sean and Maybel came over with a bottle of...

  Current generation seems to be glued to their mobile phones almost the entire day. The addiction seems to run so deep that people even take their mobile phones to the washroom so that they don't miss out on any moment in their lives without phones. This addiction has affected the entire society and relationships seem to sink and spoil rather than grow closer due to this addiction. Let's find out how it affected Kay's life and how he fought the addiction.  Kay was over the top as he got promoted as social media manager in his firm that was a global brand. He has been married to Clara for the last two years. However, the major issue he had, as per Clara, was his mobile phone addiction. Other than work consuming most of his time, where he preferred to spend time on social media being the nature of his work, he had various fake accounts all across social media where he used to spend a lot of time. This used to irritate Clara. When she was getting married to him, he was more i...

Time passed. Both Tom and Harry married close friends, just like them. Tom's wife, Bella and Harry's wife Anna were close friends and grew up next door in the same village. Both Bella and Anna heard about Tom and Harry during the fire incident. They saw Rom and Harry during the community event where they were awarded with medals by the mayor for their bravery. Bella and Anna grew up in the town. Even though all of them studied at the same community college, both Bella and Anna were into stitching and fashion. They dreamed of opening up an apparel shop together where they stitched dresses according to the orders they received.  Over the period of time, they met Tom and Harry and fell in love. They shared their dream to open up an apparel shop where they could stitch and sell dresses for women and girls so that they could also contribute to the financial aspect of the families. Tom and Harry agreed and thought that it was a great idea. They helped their wives financially to set u...

The mayor personally invited both Tom and Harry to his residence for lunch to thank them personally. Mayor requested them to bring their immediate family so that he could meet and thank them personally. Both Tom and Harry's parents were proud of their children. During the lunch, they shared about how they were friends since childhood and how they grew up to choose different professions but still were thick friends.  The mayor even told them how they were doing a great service by saving the lives of people. He was thankful for saving the life of his entire family and told them that they were welcome to visit the family any time and could ask him help with anything in the future. He even offered to provide better jobs to them but they politely refused and told how they enjoyed their own jobs.  Tom and Harry told how their other colleagues too helped out in saving their lives and how they equally deserve the praise. The mayor told them that he was planning to award and honor the ...

The girl's father came running teary-eyed and grabbed her from Tom. He was so happy and relieved that his daughter was fine. However, he was worried for his wife when he heard from Tom about her condition. Harry was trying to stabilize her condition in the emergency room. The girl's father was concerned about his wife as she was pregnant. Harry was informed about the pregnancy and he decided to rush the woman to the hospital and provide better care to both mother and child and thereby monitor them closely.  It was Harry's timely action that helped the pregnant woman save the baby's life. When they carried out a check-up, they found the baby to be in a critical condition. Urgent medical care and close monitoring helped the woman as well as the baby recover from the ill effects of the tragedy. The doctor conveyed to the family that Harry's timely action helped in saving the baby from getting miscarried or from other harm.  The family was thankful to both Tom and Harry...

While Tom had to endure burns and breathing issues during his initial training phase as a part of his job, Harry had to undergo a different ordeal where he was getting shouted at by senior nurses, doctors and sick cancer patients who were exhausted. However both Tom and Harry knew that they had to endure such issues and took it as a part of the job they did.  Both of them were hard-working in their own fields. They had to face many occasions where they had to work together as a team to save the lives of people. Once, there was a fire at the community hall. The fire and rescue rushed to the spot and began their work. Tom had rescue duty and he had to rush inside with his colleagues by wearing thermal suits. He found heartbreaking situations where a child was separated from her mother and was crying in a corner. After saving the child, Tom rushed in to find the mother of the child, lying unconscious in the lobby area filled with soot and smoke. Fire began engulfing the area as soon a...

Tom and Harry were classmates and close friends. They grew up as Neighbors since childhood and went to the same school. Their parents were close too as they used to hang out quite often and cook interesting food. Tom was always welcome at Harry's home and vice versa.  Both of them were the only child their parents had so they had many similarities in life. As they lived in the countryside, both their parents owned their own ranches and earned their livelihood by selling milk, cheese and other dairy products. They also trained horses for races (under a partnership where both Tom’s and Harry's parents owned equal shares) where rich and influential people used to drive down to buy well trained mares for races. Both sets of parents used to share the profit equally and this continued for a long time.  As time passed, both Tom and Harry completed their school days. Tom decided to enroll in a community college to learn psychology while Harry wanted to be a nurse and went to the neare...

Jason suggested that Dave should be taken to his diet and fitness center so that he could focus clearly on losing weight and that his mom won't be able to influence him. However, when Dave spoke to his mom, she was angry and wanted Dave to cut off contact with his “new friends “.  Tom and Jason told that the problem in hand was Dave's mom and what they heard from his step dad. Dave was so pissed at his mom. He also thought back about how she encouraged him to consume fast food and bought such food herself when Dave was not expecting to eat any food.  Dave said that he understood that his mother was at fault and that he needed help from both Jason and Tom. They suggested that Dave stay away from his mom until his recovery. Dave agreed and decided to move to  Jason's center. His mom decided to contact him and even made multiple attempts to personally visit her son but every effort was in vain.  In a span of two years, Dave became fit and had a great pair of muscles. He...

Both Jason and Tom  decided to do a follow-up check on Dave. They found that Dave had lost weight but not as expected. In enquiring, they found out that Dave's mom used to visit him frequently and offer him a bonus pack of burgers and fries. As Dave tried to tell his mom about how he shouldn't eat those, she would emotionally break down and tell him how the food would go into waste and how she lovingly spent such money for her baby boy.  Jason and Tom spoke to Dave's mom. She was not happy with Dave losing weight. On enquiring the reason, Dave's step father wished to speak to Tom and Jason secretly. He told them how his mom was after his dad's money and how she wanted to inherit the money. She wanted Dave to die in order to get her hands on it. Jason and Tom were shocked.  Once she left, Jason asked how Dave began putting weight. He said that his mom used to feed him burgers and fries since childhood. He fell in love with those and his mom never fussed about it. She...

Jason was happy with the results of his diet and workout. He decided to collaborate with Tom and help out people fighting obesity and health issues. He wanted to help and motivate them into losing weight, staying fit and eating healthy so that they could have a normal life just like other people.  They succeeded in their mission for a few months but little did they know that they were about to face a challenging case. Jason and Tom received a frantic call from someone named Dave. Dave was morbidly obese and found it tough to carry out his routine. He needed assistance in everything. Tom and Jason decided to meet Dave and discuss the urgent issue in hand. Dave told them about his health issues and how tough it was for his brother to take care of him for his every need. The issue here was food addiction. Yes, Dave was addicted to fast food, especially burgers and fries. He used to eat burgers and fries many times a day and only felt satisfied after he ate twelve burgers and fifteen p...

Jason finally succeeded in finding a dietician who is in fact a trainer as well. It was his best buddy, Tom. Tom was his roommate back in the university days. They used to hang out together. Tom used to advise Jason about the importance of staying fit and healthy but he used to ignore Tom. Tom had recently opened up his own diet and workout center in the city. Hence, Jason thought that Tom would be the ideal person to help him out.  On hearing Jason's decision, Tom decided that he would personally train Jason and help him retain his fitness. Jason was supposed to visit Tom's workout center everyday to continue working out. Jason began sticking to the diet prescribed by Tom and also continued the workout routine. Within a span of a few months, Jason began to lose weight and his body became fir day by day.  The people who made fun of Jason began admiring his dedication and praised him for his commitment. The company also grew and made record breaking profit for the year! End of ...

Staying fit and healthy should be one of the most important concerns everyone should have in their life. To do so, we should focus on our diet and workout plan. Avoid having unhealthy, sugary and processed food and incorporate leafy greens, legumes and pulses in your diet. A balanced diet could help you take care of your nutrition. Proper exercise is equally important so that the body remains fit and flexible. We should also watch our weight and try to keep it balanced for a healthy life.  Jason, who had just turned 20,  had lost his parents to a car crash recently and was in shock. He was unable to recover from the same as he was too attached to them. He had graduated from college and had plans to work with his dad who was the founder of a popular corporate company.  The only issue he faced was his obesity and habit of stress eating. However, he began feeling less confident as he took up the position of his father. People around him laughed behind him and made fun of him...

Pam also told her parents that she is cutting them off from her life and no one is allowed to meet her children or husband for anything. Paul's parents were shocked and asked him to apologize to her. However, they soon understood where they went wrong with Pam and why she behaved in such a manner.  Pam was never told “no” for anything. If she wanted a toy, she would cry and make tantrums until she got it. She had many tricks up her sleeve. Her parents used to give her pocket money even after her marriage as she used to demand money from them every month. Pam had quit working as soon as she got married. She loved to spend the money her husband made on shopping for clothes, cosmetics and for beauty treatments. Pam grew jealous of how her brother succeeded in his life and began demanding money from him telling that it was her right to get money from her younger brother as she looked after him during childhood when their parents were at work.  Pam even told her family that she was...

Years passed and Paul graduated from college with flying colors. His parents were proud and happy to attend his graduation ceremony. He began to apply for jobs and worked in a corporate office. However he wanted to begin a startup and lacked money for the same. However, he decided to work for a few years to save up some money. He quit the corporate job he had so that he could begin a new chapter in his life.  As decided, Paul found an office space and began setting up an office. He hired a few employees. Within a year, his company became  popular  which led to him winning “best startup of the year” award. Pam and her husband heard about this. However, Pam wanted to know more about the turnover of the company, profits etc. Gradually, Pam began demanding money from Paul for various needs she had. Initially, Paul gave her money as and when she had asked. However, this didn't last long.  Paul asked Pam to get a well-paying job so that she could earn money to spend on her...