Heart Touching Story #184 - Mount Everest

Mount Everest

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feet straight up. He was knighted for his efforts.

He even made American Express card commercials because of it! However, until we read his book, High Adventure, we don’t understand that Hillary had to grow into this success.

Heart Touching Story #183 - Mother’s Love

Mother’s Love

The Vietnam War broke out. Followed the heart, the young husband joined the military and sacrificed his life leaving behind his wife and kids.

Life postwar was very hard, often with not enough food to eat. Still young and beautiful, the wife refused to remarry and dedicated her entire life to raise her kids with the best possible care and education.

An opportunity came, the first born son immigrated to America, studied hard and became a NASA Engineer having a good life.

Heart Touching Story #182 - Laughter is The Best Medicine

Laughter is The Best Medicine

Many years ago, Norman Cousins was diagnosed as “terminally ill”. He was given six months to live. His chance for recovery was 1 in 500.

He could see the worry, depression and anger in his life contributed to, and perhaps helped cause, his disease. He wondered, “If illness can be caused by negativity, can wellness be created by positivity?”

He decided to make an experiment of himself. Laughter was one of the most positive activities he knew. He rented all the funny movies he could find – Keaton, Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers. (This was before VCRs, so he had to rent the actual films.) He read funny stories. He asked his friends to call him whenever they said, heard or did something funny.

What is a perfect relationship

What is a perfect relationship?

Experts all over the world have conducted studies as to what constitutes a perfect relationship? Is it just plain love? Probably not

An ideal relationship

Even though all couples are different, Science has predicted these 11 traits that are needed to make a relationship successful. Have a look.

Less fights

Successful couples don't fight that much after a certain point of time - they used to do it at one point and a lot of it, but they don't do that any more.

Household chores

If both partners contribute equally to the household chores , the marriage is bound to be successful.