What May Appear Correct At First Sight Might Be Wrong

Hi,

Read this parable...............

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Four friends once started dealing in cotton.



They had a godown for the storage of the bales.

Finding that the cottonseeds attracted rats to the godown, a cat was introduced by them to scare the rodents.



They tied jingles to her feet and since they loved it much, the jingles were made of gold!



Once, when the cat jumped from the top of the bales, it started limping on one foot.



So, they applied some balm and tied a long strip of bandage round the injured foot.



The bandage got loose. And the cat, unaware of the long narrow cloth that was trailing behind her, sat near the fireplace, and when the cloth began to burn, she ran helter-skelter and fled into the godown itself, where the entire stock of cotton was reduced to ashes in a trice.



The four friends had assigned to themselves each of the feet of "joint cat" and the injured foot belonged to one of them.

So the other three charged him with the damages, which they claimed from him.



The matter went to the Court and after hearing arguments on both sides, the judge said, “The injured leg has no responsibility, for it was taken into the godown with the trail of fire by the three healthy feet, So, damages have to be paid by the owners of the healthy feet to the owner of the limping foot”.



What may thus appear correct at first sight might prove wrong on second thoughts.



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Thanks

Bala

also, what may appear wrong at first sight might be wrong
experince talking
one of my friends, when i first met her,
appeared to be a total snob, now, one of my closest friends

Whar struck me was "Money kills friendship"...
or were these four guys friends in the first place??? :no:

hi
Bala
I think the conclusion depends lot on how u perceive things
How u look at things
Whether u look at a glass half filled as half filled or half empty.
how u approach a particular thing..Probably that makes a lot of difference
But this is really nice parrable .. it broadens our thinking perspective .
Thank you for it
Rupa

Hi Bala,
thats a very nice story which tells us that we should also look at all the aspects of any matter before taking the decision....
Thanks for posting.....
Richa

Thats wht your Post is all about ..
Our Point may not necessarily be Right in the views of Others ..
We may feel right about it but it may not convince others Perception...
Perception --till us is Perception (wht we Think)
Our Perception ---to Others is Point of VIew ..
And any point of view ---to others (can be accepted by them or notits their will)(It may be Right or Wrong in their PERCEPTION)..
Wht do u say bala

Well explained Rupa.
Good, thanks.
I had a "BOSS" who always tried to give sermons on how I should be for quite some time. After sometime, since he found that I was not possibly not taking his sermons seriously he shifted to blame game. It cintinued for some time where he used to say almost every morning what is the perception of some "important" others about me. And he used to repeat "Perception is Reality" every day morning few times to me till I got fed up and decided to quit. Hence I still seem to have aversion towards that statement "Perception is Reality". My strong opinion is that perception is NOT reality many times (infact most of the times)!
Bala

Hi Bala!
It seems you did have a bad experience sometime back.
what I feel is that :-
"It does not matter whether your perception is right or wrong, but what matters is whether your perception is accepted or not by those who matter(or are important) to you."
Regards,
Shyamali

Yes, Shyamali, I did have pretty bad experience on this subject. As mentioned I did quit my earlier job because of that sentence - "Perception is Reality".
And it was not so long back because of which the wounds are still there!
But, you are also almost stating the same thing:
"It does not matter whether your perception is right or wrong, but what matters is whether your perception is accepted or not by those who matter(or are important) to you."
Now, this is something which I am unable to digest and accept!
Thanks
Bala