Motivating Short Stories

The products soon hit the e-commerce stores as it was exclusively available online. In a span of few months, the products turned out to be a huge hit. Mona and Victor moved into a bigger house Victor bought in a posh neighborhood. Life was going smoothly while the doorbell rang. Victor was about to go to his home office to work and brainstorm on some new ideas for products. He decided to get the door for himself. When he opened the door, he saw Charlie standing with a younger girl with a wide grin. Charlie rushed forward to hug Victor but he was furious. Charlie's girlfriend had a smirk on her face and she decided to hug Victor and touch him inappropriately when Victor suddenly moved away.  Charlie and the girl walked inside the house as if they owned the place. Charlie made himself comfortable on the plush couch and ordered Mona to bring him and his girlfriend something chilled to drink. Victor was  in shock. Charlie was angry and asked why Victor didn't teach Mona some manne...

Many years passed and Victor grew up to be a successful entrepreneur who grew his start up to great heights. Mona was beaming proudly next to Victor during his interview. The interviewer praised Mona for her beauty and asked her the secret of looking so young. They even asked if she had Victor when she was a teenager. Mona just gave a smile while Victor held her close to him and thanked for all his success.  After Mona had moved into the rented house with Victor, she focused her attention on losing weight and caring for her body. In a span of  few months, Mona changed for the good. She began to care for herself while Victor had successfully graduated from college and had gone for a relaxing trip with his best buddies. Victor was praising his mother after seeing her transformation. Victor continued to pursue his post graduation in business studies. Mona told Victor that he had to take care of his own needs and asked him to save up some money while he earned. She also insisted t...

Victor walked into the room and told Mona that he was sorry something like this was happening to her. He apologized for his earlier rude behavior to her and told her that he realized how that might have hurt her when Charlie was also insulting her. Mona hugged her son and told that she wanted to be strong for him and asked him whether he would be willing to move out with her the next day. Victor agreed and apologized profusely to his mom for being so rude.  Johnson had arranged a rented house for Mona and Victor to stay. He visited Mona and helped her and Victor to move out of the house with all their belongings. Johnson asked Mona not to sign the divorce papers as it was drafted with different clauses that benefitted Charlie. Mona handed over all the evidence she had collected to Johnson after she showed each and every thing to him. Johnson said that the evidence was too strong and assured that Mona would win the legal proceedings. He asked her what her plan was and Mona told him ...

Her world came crashing down and she was trying to process what Charlie has told her. Charlie had a smug look on his face. He smirked and asked both Mona and Victor to get out of his house so that he could bring in his new girl home. He opened his briefcase and threw out a paper on Mona’s face. It was divorce papers.  Charlie told Mona that he would be kind and would allow her and Victor to live in the basement if she cooked food, cleaned the house and did all the maid duties for him and his new mistress. However, she would still get divorced and there was no way out from the same.  Victor got up from the couch and walked towards his father with conflict in his eyes. He asked why his father was taking such a rash decision immediately. Charlie ignored him and told Mona that he hated their son. He told Mona that she had time until the next night to make a decision on what she would do along with her son. Charlie walked towards the main door and told Mona that he won't be back un...

Many people sacrifice their happiness and even themselves for the happiness of their spouse or their families. However, the most important thing they forget here is to take care of themselves where no one else would care. Every person lives by themselves and knows very well that they will have to care for themselves, may it be their physical as well as their mental health. However, there are many people who ignore their own well-being for the sake of others to finally regret their actions.  Mona got married to the love of her life. Her husband, Charlie, had a good job with stable income and was promoted recently which helped them upgrade their lifestyle. They had a son, Victor who was in his teens. Charlie was out of the house for most of the time. He practically came back home just to sleep at night and return back to office the next day. Sundays were dedicated to his boss and team where they used to play golf for the entire day.  Victor was happy in his own world and hated b...

Her parents who were supportive of her until that point decided to take a total “U” turn. They asked her to come up with some other career prospects so that she could survive in the competent world. They even threatened to cut her off from their lives if she decided to stick to her teaching career. Joanne was determined to move forward. She moved into an apartment so that she could focus more on pursuing her teacher's degree. She was working two part time jobs that could help her fund her education as well as cover her rent.  Her parents were furious and decided to take it to social media. They shared how disgraced they were to have her with them until then and thanked God on how they realized she was a bad person. Her cousins and other relatives supported her parents and all of it became the talk of the town. However, rather than some church-goers who mocked her, other people moved on with their lives. Joanne applied for a job while continuing with her social work and part time jo...

It is a fact that society seems to be more interested in other people's lives rather than looking into their own imperfections. Most conservative parents are of the view on what the society would think if we take such an action or decision. Joanna was facing such a situation in her life.  Her parents were very conservative and God fearing people. They used to impose their ideas on Joanna so that the whole family, including Joanna, had a good image to maintain in the society. Joanna found it interesting to teach kids from her childhood and her family was supportive of her. She used to visit the orphanage near the church to teach the kids. One of the shocking discoveries she had made was on how illiterate most of them were. They were unable to even speak in an entire sentence, forget reading and writing.  Gradually, Joanna realized that there were many illiterate people around the world and needed basic education for survival.  Joanna was determined that she would become an...

Life became smooth for everyone in the village. Mary became popular due to the protests held in the village. The village had a lot of potential as many people who saw the beauty of the village visited the area. Lots of proposals for tourism were put forward and the idea to develop the village phase by phase began to turn out into reality.  Mary decided to expand the family run bakery. She decided to help out her grandparents. The bakery became very popular and Mary's special cake became an instant hit. The cake became so popular that people from the neighboring towns and villages visited the bakery just to have a bite of the famed cake.  Mary continued to live as her passion to bake for a living grew and prospered. She became very successful and the villagers were proud of her as her efforts helped them survive a huge crisis they had faced. 

The village was struck with a severe drought and the livelihood of many farmers came to a standstill. Mary's grandparents were also affected as they had a farm where grandpa used to collect fruits and vegetables and sell it in the nearby town for a living. Mary's grandma used to make use of the fresh ingredients from the farm to make cakes and pastries.  The people met up and made a decision to request for immediate action. However, the authorities were least bothered. Mary felt that it was the question of survival of the people and she decided to come up with the idea of protesting until their needs were met.  The villagers were confused at first on how to go about it as they were not a part of any protests to gain their rights. Mary told them how to go about it as she was one among the educated youngsters who had decided to lead the protest.  The protests gained huge popularity as her friends decided to help her out by posting the videos of protests over social media. T...

  Mary loved to bake cakes since childhood. She grew up with her grandparents where she saw her grandmother bake different cakes. Some cakes used to go well with tea while some others with frosting was ideal for celebrations. Her parents wanted nothing to do with her and it was her grandparents who decided to take her in and care for her as their own.  Mary never knew what had happened to her parents. Her grandparents taught her to be caring and compassionate. She loved helping poor people however possible. She used to share her food, give them water and play with the kids who were otherwise ignored and uncared for. Her grandmother owned a family bakery and used to bake cakes to sell.  Mary asked her grandmother whether she could make cakes or provide leftover cakes to the poor who lived in the neighborhood. Her grandmother was impressed and readily agreed. Life was going smoothly in the village when a disaster struck.  End of part 1

Ben's father was surprised to see the cafe filled with youngsters. Ben was happy to work there. However, he was still interested in pursuing a University degree. Ben's father suggested that he work part time in a cafe as well as to pursue his education. Ben agreed to the same and continued working as a chef while his father handled the finances and remaining responsibilities.  Ben wanted to pursue hotel management and was enrolled for the course. He had hands-on training at his family run cafe which was an added bonus. Within a span of few years, Ben successfully completed his course and began to handle more responsibilities in the cafe while his father overlooked everything.  Ben's success story soon became a sensation and Ben was able to open another fine dining restaurant. 

Ben was young and had a lot of potential in him. He grew up seeing his father operate a busy cafe. However, things took a turn for the worse when his father fell ill and became bedridden. Ben had to take care of their family business, the cafe rather than declaring bankruptcy and shutting it down.  Ben had lost his mother to a grave illness when he was just a kid. His father was the sole breadwinner who took care of him, handled the expenses and funded for his education. However, as his father was ill, Ben decided to focus on his father's health by running the cafe to success.  Ben came up with a decision to change the menu and add new and interesting items. He had plans to come up with a range of unique burgers and chicken wings which could attract youngsters to the cafe. He also had idea about bringing up unique drinks.  Once the new menu was implemented, Ben gradually began to see the change in customers. Youngsters and energetic people replaced the old regulars. The e...

Katy knew that there was no solution and nobody would help her out but herself. She decided to take matters into her own hands and spoke to Sam. He was shocked to see Katy speaking to him a lot. Sam needed some time to process whatever was told to him. He responded calmly that he was a man of few words and that he had no issue with her. It's just that he was confused or worried of expressing his love and attraction to Katy as he was never into any relationships. Katy also shared that she was new in relationships and she had no prior experience about anything. She asked if Sam wanted to continue the relationship or not where he looked confused and shocked.  Sam slowly began warming up to Katy. Katy decided to speak more to Sam and share her feelings. Katy also shared that she was an introvert as well but this silence hurt her a lot. Sam changed a lot over the course of years but the intimacy part still remained distant. As the families began pressuring on both of them for kids, Katy...

Katy was shocked to see how Sam communicated very well when they met outside the church after the prayer service. Katy was so impressed that she thought Sam might change slowly once they get to know each other well. Katy tried to ask for more time before marriage but her parents were strongly against it. They even advised her to get married and give them grandchildren at the earliest.  Sam and Katy finally got married and decided to relocate to another city as Sam had a great job offer. They had to skip their honeymoon. Katy also wanted to work just like Sam and was interested in finding a job so that they could have better savings for a smoother life. Eventually Katy also began working but their relationship was not at all working. The main issue here was communication. Sam just had basic communication with Katy and hardly gave her any love or attention a spouse provides. Katy felt that Sam was more or a room mate rather than her husband who had exchanged the vows.  As time p...

Katy has been working at a corporate company for some time. It was then she met Sam, the love of her life. Sam was different from other men. He used to communicate very less and most of the time, this used to pose a problem in their relationship. Katy even felt that she was being left out or Sam didn't even love her. However, she was not excited with the relationship.  Her family were strong believers and church-goers where they met Sam’s parents. They were very happy and impressed and told Katy that Sam was ideal for her as a life partner and she chose well. Her parents, until then, were strongly against dating any random person. Both the parents discussed and decided that their children would get married as they were dating however, Katy was not at all happy with this. She tried to tell her family about the lack of proper communication between her and Sam.  Sam was not thrilled as well but agreed to the marriage. Katy was shocked on how Sam could react that way as he didn't ...

Ana thought that all of these changes were happening as Jill had control over her dad. However, Jill had spoken to Mr.Johnson on how she had heard a lot of complaints about Ana from others as she used to work at the same University where Ana was studying.  Ana was provided with a staff quarters that was very small when compared to her lavish life. She even had a few clothes out of which some of them were of lower brands which she hated. Ana decided to break into her father's house to steal her clothes, makeup and even her dad's credit cards as her dad made sure that all of her credit cards were blocked.  Ana found it tough to not go shopping and to stop partying. She hated going to work at her office and began being disrespectful to the staff members. She demanded that she was the daughter of the CEO of the company and she would terminate them if they didn't complete her work for her. Amidst of all the complaints Mr. Johnson received, he wanted to see how far Ana would go. ...

Ana’s dad, Mr. Johnson brought his new girlfriend, Jill, to the house one day which shocked Ana to the core. She never thought that her dad would start dating after such a long gap. Jill greeted Ana with a warm smile which was totally ignored by Ana. She demanded that she needed to talk to her dad in private. Her dad asked why Ana was making a fuss and why she had a problem with Jill. Ana blatantly told her dad that she hated Jill and claimed that she is a gold digger. She demanded that her father should stop dating as he is too old for that.  Mr. Johnson was furious and told Ana that it was none of her business to interfere in her father's dating world nor she had the right to express her views upon the same. Ana decided that she would throw a tantrum to get what she wanted (which was to get Jill thrown out of the house) Ana grabbed Jill’s bags and began throwing out all of her clothes to the wet puddle just outside the house. Ana did all of this with a smirk and found Jill’s shoc...

Ana was known as the spoilt brat in her college. She used to drive to the college in different supercars to show off her wealth. However, everyone around her knew that she reacted harshly towards someone disagreeing with her as she used to get whatever she needed as soon as she had asked or rather demanded! Most people found her as narcissistic as her hobby is to Gaslight her own friends and turn them against the other students on campus so that she could get all the attention from her preferred group of friends who were rich and snobby.  Her dad used to give her access to money so that she was free to us as much as and when she required. This made her addicted to shopping for branded clothes, handbags, shoes and other accessories. She used to treat the servants and personal staff at home as if they should only take care of her whims and fancies.  Unfortunately, most of the staff had gossip going around among them that Ana turned out to be too spoiled as she lacked her mother'...

The mailman walked to the house as her grandpa was tending to the plants. Both the mailman and grandpa had a chat and the mailman left following the delivery. Mel was inside her room reconsidering her choices in life. She stopped talking to almost everyone and began loving darkness. It was as if there was no meaning in her life… It was the lowest point of her life. Grandpa exclaimed happily and called for Mel. He received a letter from the university. As he knew Mel was upset, he decided to open and read the letter. The letter, addressed to Mel, shared that it was a misjudgment from the university and that she has cleared the exam with flying colors. Action was taken against the person responsible for mishandling her exam papers.  Mel was shocked and couldn't believe her eyes and ears. She asked grandma to pinch her to make sure that she was not dreaming. Indeed, it was not a dream but a reality. Mel asked her grandparents to not share the news and be  too excited with anyone ...

Mel was heartbroken to see that she didn't clear a subject. This confused her even more. She had worked hard on the exam that was postponed but it showed that she didn't clear the exam. She thought of it to be a mistake and reached out to the university.  Meanwhile, her relatives got wind of the news and hurled insults at her claiming that she wasted money and was a failure in life. The only relatives she was close to, looked down on her in disgust. She never imagined them, out of all, to behave like that to her. Her grandparents were shattered but we're supportive of her. Her teachers were shocked and agreed with her that there must have been some mistake and encouraged her to reach out to the university.  With a broken heart and last attempts to find out the issue, she requested the university to re-evaluate her exam papers so that they could identify the mistake and rectify the issue. Two of the employees at the administrative office were kind enough to console her. They...