As an achiever, do you reflect
on how you react to situations regularly? Most of the times, our outward
actions and reactions depend on the thought processes we have trained our
internal being to entertain. The story of this lady should get us thinking…
An old woman stopped by a
roadside restaurant one evening, she went to the self-service table and served
herself a bowl of hot soup and went to sit alone on a table for the meal, she
realizes she had forgotten to take some salt and she went back into the table
to get some salt. When she got back to her table, she met a well-dressed young man
who had placed his spoon into her bowl of soup and was eating gently in a
composed mood.
“Oh! It’s horrible of
this ill-mannered guy” thought the brave woman. “I will teach him some good manners” All the
same, she sat by the man’s side and charitably let him eat a bit from her bowl.
Withdrawing the bowl from the man to herself, she starts eating from the same
bowl with the intension of sharing the bowl with him.
The young man pulls the bowl
towards him gently and continues to eat. The woman again pulls it towards
herself to be able to gain access to the bowl and that’s how they finished the
soup. Now the young man got up, made a sign for her to hold on as he went to
the table and came back with fries which he shares with her in the same manner
like the soup.
At the end, they greeted each
other and the woman went into the toilette to ease herself. When she came back,
she needed something from her handbag and noticed it was no longer at the foot
of her chair and the man was nowhere to be found
“Ah! I should have been
careful with this mischievous guy!”, she combs the whole restaurant shouting
thief, thief and calling for help until her bag was found leaning gracefully at
the foot of a table on which was a bowl of soup already cold – her bowl of
soup. She then realizes she had mistaken her table and had shared the young man’s
food with him.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (a
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism) wrote
“A man’s heart is his paradise and his hell”.
What
do you make of this?
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