The wife and the window
A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hang the wash outside. "That laundry is not very clean," she said, "she doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap." Her husband looked on but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband, "Look! She has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."
The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows!"
And so it is with life: "What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look. Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge."
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45A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hang the wash outside. "That laundry is not very clean," she said, "she doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap." Her husband looked on but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband, "Look! She has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."
The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows!"
And so it is with life: "What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look. Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge."
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This is not true. In today's atmosphere, clothes are still dirty even when the window is clean. I live in Delhi for my job, and I have seen the limits of dirty clothes. I have cleaned windows many times, hoping that the clothes will become clean, but it never happened. So, live in reality.
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Alright smartguy... Are you trying to be funny? Or you really don’t get the message in the story?? :-) I am hoping you are being funny :-)
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Hey, som. I'm not trying to be funny, I was serious. I just want to say that other people never become clean and clear if we make our perspective perfect about them. I'm sorry if I hurt anybody; I just put my views down. And I got the meaning of the story - the story is wonderful, motivational, and inspirational.
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Hi,
It is true that there are really bad people in each and every part of the world, but the moral here is even though we cannot change others, at least we can change our perspective towards the world and be happy instead of pondering how we can change the world and make our lives miserable.
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It is true that there are really bad people in each and every part of the world, but the moral here is even though we cannot change others, at least we can change our perspective towards the world and be happy instead of pondering how we can change the world and make our lives miserable.
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Hi, Good one. Many times we look at some one the way we want to. This habit is to be improved upon. Not to get prejudised and look at others is an art. Thanks for the post. Regards, Sudhir
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Thank you, S. Dhanraj, for the story and Licdo for providing the visual effect. A very good message. In self-improvement, introspection is the first step. That "we may be wrong" is easily accepted when "we realize it ourselves." It is painful when others point it out to us. So before pointing a finger at others, we must do some soul searching. A lovely moral. Thanks to both of you for sharing the post.
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Navi Mumbai
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