This is Matrix movie star Keanu Reeves. He was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident.
His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister battled leukemia.
No bodyguards, no luxury houses. Keanu lives in an ordinary apartment and likes wandering around town and often seen riding a subway in NYC.
When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants, one crying as he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 - On the same day, Keanu deposited the necessary amount in his bank account.
In his career, he has donated large sums to hospitals including $75 million of his earnings from “The Matrix” to charities.
In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery & bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery,
and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.
In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.
In life, sometimes the ones most broken from inside are the ones most willing to help others.
This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought:
In Kadali-vana, grove of plantains, he found Ramayana inscribed on seven broad leaves of a banana tree.
He read it and found it to be perfect. The most exquisite choice of grammar and vocabulary, metre and melody. He couldn't help himself. He started to cry.
A recipient of Best Librarian in India Award, Cambridge honored him as one of the ‘noblest men of the world’ and the UN recognised him as one of the most outstanding people of 20th century.
A lot of us may not be aware of existence of this noble man: Shri Palam Kalyanasundaram
Every month in his 30 year experience (service as a Librarian), he donated his entire salary to help the needy. He worked as a waiter in a hotel to meet his needs. He even donated his entire pension amount of over ₹ 10 lakhs to the needy.
He is the first person in the world to spend the entire earnings for a social cause. In recognition to his service, the American Govt honoured him with the ‘Man of the Millennium’ award. He received a sum of Rs 30 Crs as part of this award which he distributed entirely too.
By-poll for Maharashtra assembly seat Pandharpur was held recently.
The region has been NCP stronghold & even the massive Modi wave had zero impact here.
For the bypoll, BJP fielded its candidate while from Maha Vikas Aghadi, a NCP candidate was fielded.
This means it was BJP vs NCP+SS+INC in a seat which is NCP stronghold.
So it was obvious that MVA wud hv won easily. Popular NCP leaders like Ajit Pawar campaigned here in full swing. Fadnavis meanwhile campaigned for BJP candidate.
Now, unexpected happened. BJP won the seat.
3 out of the 4 main parties of a state fight in a seat together, that too a seat that is stronghold of one of those parties. They cud hv easily polled 60% votes, but they end up losing to 4th party (BJP), which had negligible presence here.
We all know that Kareena Kapoor is expecting a second child.
We know that Anushka Sharma is expecting her first child.
We also know which actor wear which designer cloth...
Went out to see a house was on fire. Without thinking and entered the house to save 3 children who were trapped inside. He sustained 85% of burn by the time he saved the first two children and decided to save the third one.
Once a poor man was given a pot🏺 of flour so he hung it on his wall & fell asleep. He dreamt that he would become rich and achieve great things in life. But his daydreams were disturbed by a bunch of kids. So to make them go away he accidentally breaks his pot.
From this story, we learn that a man can dream of a lot of things but without hard work, nothing can be achieved. Thus the phrase ‘Don’t build castles in the air, they will fall’ is true.
We often sit and think about the things that we should do and how rich we will become if things go according to our thoughts. But this is not how things happen in real life.