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nearoanoke

USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2005 : 11:16:46 PM

Here's an interesting story about our perceptions; you might want to
read....

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
terribly, 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.

If you want your neighbor to believe in God, let him see what God can make you like. - Emerson

Anthem

1608 Posts

Posted - Oct 17 2005 : 11:52:07 PM

This is a great story Near, thanks for sharing it.

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