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Good Morning Friends
Nice Thought for the day, to begin with.
This one is nice so wanted to share it with you all ....
One night there was a woman at the airport who had to wait for
several hours before catching her next flight. While she waited she
bought a book and a pack of biscuits to spend the time. She looked for a
place to sit and waited.
She was deep into her book, when suddenly she realized that there was
a young man sitting next to her who was stretching his hand and, with
no concern whatsoever, and grabbing the pack of cookies lying between
them. He started to eat them one by one.
Not wanting to make a fuss about it she decided to ignore him. The
woman, slightly bothered, ate the cookies and watched the clock, while
the young and shameless thief of biscuits was also finishing them. The
woman started to get really angry at this point
and thought "If I wasn't such a good and educated person, I would have
given this daring man a black eye by now. "Every time she ate a biscuit,
he had one too.
The dialogue between their eyes continued and when only one biscuit
was left, she wondered what was he going to do. Softly and with a
nervous smile, the young man grabbed the last biscuit and broke it in
two. He offered one half to the woman while he ate
the other half. Briskly she took the biscuit and thought, "What an
insolent man!
How uneducated! He didn't even thank me!" She had never met anybody
so fresh and sighed relieved to hear her flight announced. She grabbed
her bags and went towards the boarding gate refusing to look back to
where that insolent thief was seated. After
boarding the plane and nicely seated, she looked for her book which
was nearly finished by now.
While looking into her bag she was totally surprised to find her pack
of biscuits nearly intact. If my biscuits are here, she thought feeling
terrible, those others were his and he tried to share them with me. Too
late to apologize to the young man, she
realized with pain, that it was she who had been insolent, uneducated
and a thief, and not him.
How many times in our lives, had we known with certainty that
something happened in a certain way, only to discover later that it
wasn't true? How many times has our lack of trust within us made us
judge other people unfairly with our conceited ideas, often far away
from reality. That is why we have to think twice before we judge others.
Let's always give others the benefit of the doubt before we think badly of them.
