Becca James

Reflections

Sunday, 17. June 2007, 22:37:12

One day a local healer was visited by a man who had hurt his hand badly. it was cut and had glass in it.

"What did you do to it asked the healer?"

"Well, it is an odd thing" said the man " i was arguing with my friend about how this woman in the coffee shop was behaving. He just smiled and suggsted before i tried to understand others i should look to myself. well needless to say this annoyed me and as i walked away i saw something out the corner of my eye i thought was someone attacking me.... I hit it and only realised my error when my hand went through the glasss smashing the reflection..... silly me it turned out to be my reflection in the window. To make it worse while helping me wrap my hand gently to come here my friend said this was what he meant by looking to myself first. How silly as if i could have forseen this accident. "

The healer who had by this time cleaned and dressed the wound smilled and said to the man " you have indeed had an odd day, when i have had an odd day i find sitting by the pool in the village green relaxing, to sit and watch the reflections on the water."

The man replied that he "would wander that way and see whether it helped him to settle in his mind."

On finding himself sitting by the pool he marveled at how nice the day seemed and gazing in the pool saw his reflection it was odd he thought how one reflection in the window could cause so much pain to him, but the rflections of the trees and plants on the green were peaceful.

Sitting there by the pool he realised that what had made him so mad at his friend wasn't his friend but his own reflection in his mind. He then smiled and ambled home to where his friend was fixing his window for him, on seeing his friend he smiled his friend on witnessing the smile knew then that his friend had seen himself.

a little story inspired by some self introspection....

peace to you
beccaxx

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Comments

Anonymous # 18. June 2007, 10:56

Terry writes:

This reminds me of the man traveling upstream in his boat in a heavy fog. Dimly seeing another boat approach, the man challenged the other boat but received no response. The man issued another sally, with no response, and another, and another. Growing angry, he seized the boat's gunwale .. only to find the boat was empty.