Tuesday, October 27, 2009

An old man and his son

One old man was sitting with his 25 years old in the train. Train is about to leave the station. All the passengers are settling down into their seats. As the train started, the young man was filled with a lot of joy and curiosity. He was sitting on the window side. He went out one hand and feeling the passing air.

He shouted, ‘Papa, see all the trees are going behind!’ Old man smile and admired his son’s feelings. Beside the young man, one couple was sitting and listing all the conversation between father and son. They were little awkward with the attitude of the 25 years old man behaving like a small child.

Suddenly, the young man again shouted, ‘Papa sees the ponds and animals. Clouds are moving with the train. Couple was watching the young man in embarrassingly. Now its start raining and some of water drops touches the young man’s hand. He is filled with joy and closed his eyes. He shouted again,’ Papa, it’s raining, water is touching me, see papa?’

Couple could not help themselves and ask the old man,
‘Why don’t you visit the Doctor to get your son treated?’

Old man said,
‘Yes, we were from the hospital. Today my son got his eyes for the first sight in his life’.

Moral of the story is

“We must not come to any conclusion until we know all THE FACTS"

Another lesson is that to find out all facts and explore all assumptions before making a conclusion. In this particular case, the couple made a wrong assumption that the young man was like another other ordinary man.

Observation in real working life is that the most of the time a wrong decision was made purely because people were making invalid assumptions and that of course due to not enough facts or failure to question assumptions.

* so do us,,isn't it??*


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