The train has started moving. It is packed with people of all ages, mostly working men and women and young college guys and gals. Near the window, sat an old man with his 30-year-old son.
As the train moves, the son is overwhelmed with joy because he is thrilled by the scenery outside.
"See dad, the scenery of green trees moving away is very beautiful."
This behavior from the thirty-year-old son made the other people on the train feel strange about him. Everyone started murmuring something or other about this son.
"This guy seems to be a crack," newly married Anup whispered to his wife.
Suddenly it started raining. Raindrops fell on the travelers through the opened window. The thirty-year-old, filled with joy said, “See dad, how beautiful the rain is…"
Anup’s wife became irritated with the raindrops, as they were dropping on her new suit and spoiling it.
"Anup, can’t you see it’s raining? You Old man! If your son is not feeling well, get him to a mental asylum soon and don’t disturb the public henceforth."
The old man hesitated first and then in a low tone replied, "We are on the way back from hospital. My son was discharged this morning. He was blind at birth. Only last week he regained his vision. Rain and nature are new to his eyes. Please forgive us for the inconvenience caused."
— Author Unknown —
The things we see may be right, from our perspective, until we know the truth. But, when we know the truth, our reaction to that will hurt even us. So try to understand the problem better before taking a harsh action.
Most problems in our life, our nation, our world arises from our refusal to see a situation in another’s perspective. We take a stock of the situation upon how we see it – in an unidirectional approach. The same situation could be different from another point of view so unless we open our mind, thought, approach to all the possibilities and accommodate various faces of a same problem/situation – we tend to have simmering tensions and unnecessary differences existing in this world.
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even if that man is not a blind who recently got vision, I dont see anything wrong in enjoying nature. If the materialistic world enjoys smell of money and the betrayal steps that we cross over to reach there, why cant we accept there are many beautiful things in this world that others could enjoy?
Chasing the materialistic dream , we have forgotten to enjoy the the charms of nature and Gods of lesser beauty
Agree with Bharathi.
But the whole idea about this story is : “Find the truth from otherside, before coming to a conclusion”
As rightly put in the end core problem an individual and collectively the world faces is due to ignoring this core idea *sighs*
share your *sighs*
you got it right Alka
very true
one should always jump into other’s shoes, and think, before giving an opinion or an unwanted advise
Righto ! Our opinion can agree or disagree with others but before we frame an opinion, its a positive thing to see the same issue from the other side too ..
@Chetan:
Sorry mate, my shoe size is a tad too big for anyone to jump in… not easy to walk in for the average Indian. As one of my friends said, ‘Dei, ithu chappal illa, Kappal!’ meaning ‘This is not a chappal, this is a ship!’.
Yeah yesterday read in newspaper some thing similar. It was about Aamir Khan’s mother who used to always ask Aamir who won the TT match and invariably it would be Aamir and his mother would say ‘I am sorry for the defeated guy’s mother she must be very upset’ …. How many people can see the other perspective like that specially when you are on the winning side….
very heartfelt story..and i feel sorry for Apoop and his wife as people like them haveforgotten how to enjoy the nature.
Jumping to conclusions is almost all the time a faux paus.
Wonderful story with a great message.
We need to learn widen our perspective and be able to see and feel things from wider outlooks than the tubular vision we usually hold in day to day life.
Keep up the wonderful work
Cheers!!
how about trying to understand the story from Anoop’s perspective too? OOOOOOPS! sorry. Well I am so excited to be back again that was trying to act cheeky.Clever opening gambitRajan. Nicely chosen story. Nice format- hmm 1 you let the story to do the talking…hmm!
beautiful. it may be great if we could cleanse our minds once a while and start seeing things anew.