Irritated by the rate of immorality in his environment, a pastor parked to chastise a prostitute standing by the roadside. “Foolish girl, candidate of hell, you are disgrace to womanhood, selling your dignity to dirty men.” The girl got embarrassed and began insulting the man in vulgar words. Later, another man spoke to the lady: […]
Fishes are enabled to swim, and monkeys are enabled to climb trees. When judging a fish by its ability to climb trees instead of its natural potential for swimming, you could think it is useless.[1] If the fish starts comparing itself with monkeys or judging itself by its capacity to climb, it gets loses hope […]
Travelling to a far destination can be boring if you are going alone. But if you connect with someone going to your destination, you assist each other and enjoy your trip companion, whether trekking or driving. Yet, if you do not know or have a specific destination, you either remain stagnant or continue competing in […]
Learning to ride bicycle either as a child or an adult can be difficult, dangerous and harmful. There are risks of falling down, sustaining injuries or crashing and spoiling the bicycle. A father who is could not learn to ride may depend on foreign riders to hire or buy his bicycles for their businesses and […]
Jon always flaunted his muscular cousin as consolation or excuse whenever people mocked him for being fat and weak. Instead of building his own physique, Jon always buys gifts for the muscular cousin to keep depending on the cousin’s status for consolation or defence. Our imperfections, especially in having meaningful lives, often make us attach […]
“In our own day, there has been too much of a tendency towards authority, and too little care for the preservation of initiative. Men in control of vast organisations have tended to be too abstract in their outlook, to forget what actual human beings are like, and to try to fit men to systems rather […]
Hypocrisy is caging different groups of lions and blaming them for not hunting or learning to hunt like other animals. Due to extreme hunger in the cage, some of the lions attack and devour others to survive in the cage. The jailer trains and feeds few big lions to control and restrict the other lions […]
A monk distributed different seeds and portions of lands to six neighbours in a village, so they can cultivate for survival. Each person cultivated his land to feed himself and have surplus to exchange for other neighbours’ desirable products. Later, a gun-wielding stranger invaded, seized their lands and brought his own people to cultivate the […]
When cooking with firewood, a single burning charcoal can ignite a heap of charcoal/firewood if it is well-placed and fanned. The cook arranges dry woods/charcoals around the burning charcoal and leaves space for the burning charcoal to ignite them. If he dumps dry woods on the burning charcoal without leaving airway, the wood will suppress […]
If you uproot weeds from a land without planting good trees on it, more weeds will grow. Also, if you remove bad thoughts from a person’s mind without replacing it with good thoughts, worse thoughts will rise. After punishing people for stealing food without showing them how to earn without stealing, they either become timid […]
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