Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Moral of the story 1

故事:
有一个人,经常与邻居发生争执,彼此之间嫌恶。有一天,这个人的牛丢失了,于是便怀疑是邻居偷了。他左想右想,越看邻居越像是偷牛的人。过了几天,牛居然自己跑回来了。于是他再看那位邻居,样子好像又不是偷牛的人了。

Story 1:
There were two neighbours who constantly fight and argue and this created negative feelings for one another. One day, one of the neighbour lost his cow. He instantly cast his suspicion on his neighbour whom he fought a lot. He pondered over this and the more he observed his neighbour, the more he saw the neighbour as a 'cow-thief'. A few days later, unexpectedly his cow returned home to him. After this incident, whenever he observed his neighbour, he begun to see his neighbour less of a 'cow-thief'.

寓意:
你也许从来没有丢失过牛,更没有偷过牛,但是,这个故事却告诉你两件非常重要的事:
第一,作为人,绝对不能心有成见。当你假设一个人会偷牛,越看他就越像偷牛的人,直到有一天牛回来了,他的嫌疑才会被洗清。
第二,不幸的是,在我们的一生中,常常会被人冤枉成为偷牛的人,但牛又永远不会自己回来,所有,就有可能一辈子会被人视为偷牛贼。
因此,每个人对自己都要有信心。如果你不是偷牛贼,即使别人硬说你是偷牛的,也不应该影响自己对整个世界的认识。

Moral of the story:
You probably never lost or stolen a cow before. However, this story is to remind us of two things in life i.e:

  1. Never pass judgement about people. We see what we want to believe. If we want to see someone as a 'cow-thief', unless the cow return, we'll always see them as a 'cow-thief'.
  2. During our lifespan, there might be times when we ourselves are judged as the 'cow-thief' by others and the cow might never return to prove our innocence. Therefore, develop such faith and trust in ourselves that as long as I didn't steal the cow, even if someone falsely accused me of stealing the cow, I'm not going to change my stand (i.e. principle/value).

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