35. You are always in the
middle.
A small boy in my neighborhood
came to my house and said, “Uncle, I want to ask you a puzzle”
“O.K. ask” I replied
without looking at him. He ran back too his house and brought several toys along
with him. Later, he arranged the toys around the circular sticker on the floor,
and then asked.
“Which is the first toy,
uncle?”
I kept aside my
newspaper, looked at him and then at toys. I found, brightness in his eyes, as if
a teacher is asking a question to his student.
I could not answer this
puzzle immediately.
But after a few second,
I put forward a cross question “yes” I said, I can answer your puzzle, provided
you identify which toy is last in the line.”
He smiled and put
forward to me a philosophical statement. “Uncle, all are in the middle”
Wow! What wisdom, he
taught me. Suddenly, it dawned unto me that, no matter how hard I try, there are several thousand people smarter than me, richer than me. It is equally
true, no matter how bad my conditions are, as of today, there are million of
people worse than me, who need help immediately. Wow! What a relief.
If you treat yourself as
a number a positive (good) or a negative (bad), no matter what value you
possess, the numbers are infinite on both the side of the zero in number
scale.
This strategy, however,
should not be used misused as a tool to your procrastination habit. This
technique is like a double edged sward, which you need to handle carefully.
Know it for sure, that your
are always in the middle. Be at ease all the time.
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