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| COOKIE THIEF ~ A GOOD STORY |
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 Hakinaz08 writes "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 Cookies.
She looked for a place to sit and waited.Beside the armchair she sat in, was packet of cookies. A man sitting down the other side of the packet, opened a magazine and started reading.This man started to eat the cookies one by one.
Not wanting to make a fuss about it the woman decided to ignore him. She ate the cookies and watched the clock, while the shameless thief of cookies continued to eat. The woman started to get really angry, and thought
"If I wasn't such a good and
educated person, I would have given this man a black eye by now." Every
time she ate a cookie, he reached into the packet and eat one too.
Finally there was only one cookie left.
She
wondered what was he going to do. Softly and with a nervous smile, the
man grabbed the last cookie and broke it in two. He offered one half to
the woman, and he ate the other half.
Briskly she took the cookie,
and thought, "What an insolent man! How uneducated! He didn't even
thank me!" She had never met anybody so fresh!
She 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, she looked for her book which was nearly finished
by now. While looking into her bag she was totally surprised to find
her packet of cookies.
"If my cookies are here", she thought feeling terribly, those cookies were his and he shared them with me." Too late to apologize to the man.
She realized with pain, that it was she who had been insolent, uneducated, and a thief, not him.
How
many times in our lives, had we know 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.
http://spaces.muxlim.com/forum/topic/5908?page=1#24436"
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Posted on Tuesday, February 26 @ 08:57:50 EST by islah |
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