I wonder if there would be one who hasn’t heard about a single fable story in their entire life. One might have come across them as bed time stories or lesson learnt as a part of education or while watching TV etc. The fable stories so intricately cultivated into our life’s that they have become as the moral checklist for oneself.
During childhood we listen to those tales believing as if really a forest with speaking animals do exist. As we grow up we do realise that how the stories were cleverly written to melt down the involved morals into our minds.
But is it so easy to apply those morals in our day to day life? The clear resounding answer would be a big NO.
In the fables a wicked personality is clearly made apparent by their looks or characterisation. From the starting of a story a character is destined to be wicked and he ends up wicked with a failure on his face.
But is it the case in a real life scenario? I wonder not. In the real world a person tends to be good at some point and turns out to wicked and at later point of time.
All the fables clearly show that good people always win in spite of all the odds they have and they face.
But is this so clearly apparent where a good and bad itself haven't got a clear partition? Once good is bad for someone else and once bad is good for some others.
As we start growing and facing the real world there would a plenty number of incidents where the morale we learnt doesn't actually fit down to explain the reasons behind them. We are left to wonder why it happened and satisfy ourselves by saying that it might be results due to deeds done in past life or in a long run we can see results that are in accordance with the morale or sometimes attributing it for the luck and so on.
It would be bad to realise that this fable stories even attribute for some negative mindsets. Like say the odds that set off as we came across a oddly looking person and apparent charm of a good looking person. Even though if bad looking happened to a genuine person and the good looking one a cunning.
Like the Ant and the Grasshopper story which concludes out saying "Hard work always pays off".
Is this really true? You can observe people around who strenuously work to achieve a minimal growth in life and at the same time people who lucratively spend time and still manage to end up their life in luxury.
More interestingly, I have come across some recent version of The Tortoise and the Hare story which was extended further to explain some management principles. The initial story had morale of "Slow and steady wins the race". The original was extended a bit to convey
- That fast and consistent will always beat slow and steady;
- Work to your competencies;
- Pooling resources and working as a team will always beat individual performers;
- Never give up when faced with failure;
- Compete against the situation. Not against a rival.
On a whole the real life is so intricately weaved web where morale cannot fit down straight. We do have to bend and twist the morals.
During childhood we listen to those tales believing as if really a forest with speaking animals do exist. As we grow up we do realise that how the stories were cleverly written to melt down the involved morals into our minds.
But is it so easy to apply those morals in our day to day life? The clear resounding answer would be a big NO.
In the fables a wicked personality is clearly made apparent by their looks or characterisation. From the starting of a story a character is destined to be wicked and he ends up wicked with a failure on his face.
But is it the case in a real life scenario? I wonder not. In the real world a person tends to be good at some point and turns out to wicked and at later point of time.
All the fables clearly show that good people always win in spite of all the odds they have and they face.
But is this so clearly apparent where a good and bad itself haven't got a clear partition? Once good is bad for someone else and once bad is good for some others.
As we start growing and facing the real world there would a plenty number of incidents where the morale we learnt doesn't actually fit down to explain the reasons behind them. We are left to wonder why it happened and satisfy ourselves by saying that it might be results due to deeds done in past life or in a long run we can see results that are in accordance with the morale or sometimes attributing it for the luck and so on.
It would be bad to realise that this fable stories even attribute for some negative mindsets. Like say the odds that set off as we came across a oddly looking person and apparent charm of a good looking person. Even though if bad looking happened to a genuine person and the good looking one a cunning.
Like the Ant and the Grasshopper story which concludes out saying "Hard work always pays off".
Is this really true? You can observe people around who strenuously work to achieve a minimal growth in life and at the same time people who lucratively spend time and still manage to end up their life in luxury.
More interestingly, I have come across some recent version of The Tortoise and the Hare story which was extended further to explain some management principles. The initial story had morale of "Slow and steady wins the race". The original was extended a bit to convey
- That fast and consistent will always beat slow and steady;
- Work to your competencies;
- Pooling resources and working as a team will always beat individual performers;
- Never give up when faced with failure;
- Compete against the situation. Not against a rival.
On a whole the real life is so intricately weaved web where morale cannot fit down straight. We do have to bend and twist the morals.
Fable morals ... are they good enough?
ReplyDeleteYes, they are but are you brave enough to use those?
Well, tried a good analysis but ends up in a wrong conclusion.
Truth always wins... stand for truth you will win at the end.
You are quoting "You can observe people around who strenuously work to achieve a minimal growth in life and at the same time people who lucratively spend time and still manage to end up their life in luxury" .
May be this is because, you've not read the stories completely. Take "Satya Harischandra". When standing for truth, you will face lot of problems and lot of hurdles. You should have the enough courage to cross all those barriers.
If one give up truth once and enjoy the attraction of lieful life, one may enjoy in luxary not with the inner happiness "manassaanthi"
I believe, money may give status and luxary not happiness.
The warrior for truth will never looks for others appreciations, he is a alone warrior in the battle with lies and sins. If he doesn't have enough patience, he will lose and may enjoy the luxarious life.
The present day corporate world is making everyone feel "Live with out truth".....
But, it is our commonsense, which way to chose the path which is difficult to walk but ends in good life or the path which is simple to walk but ends in bad life.
When you believe something with heart, you will get it
Where there is belief, there are no confusions.
Luxary is not the measure of truth, good and hardwork. It is destraction to make one move away from truth and hardwork. Luxary shall be accessory not the need.
We should never never comment on something which we don't know completely.
One word for your blog "What all you know is good in some fields and not enough in some fields"