A poet once wrote a love song and it was beautiful. And he made many copies of it, and sent them to his friends and his acquaintances, both men and women, and even to a young woman whom he had met but once, who lived beyond the mountains.
And in a day or two a messenger came from the young woman bringing a letter. And in the letter she said, “Let me assure you, I am deeply touched by the love song that you have written to me. Come now, and see my father and my mother, and we shall make arrangements for the betrothal.”
And the poet answered the letter, and he said to her, “My friend, it was but a song of love out of a poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman.”
And she wrote again to him saying, “Hypocrite and liar in words! From this day unto my coffin-day I shall hate all poets for your sake.”
Excerpted from 'The Wanderer' by Kahlil Gibran
4 comments:
wats d moral of the story?
Moral of the Story, Your actions and words need to be perceived in a manner that does not communicate something else than what you want to communicate.
In Communication, it is very important that you are specific even if indirect and your message is decoded in the same manner as encoded by you.
A successful communication is the one where the message receiver understands the same content as perceived by the message sender!!!
Thanks Mayank. Just to add -
Also, what we think, what we say and what we do should be in complete harmony, in unity.
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Anuj: What an amazing thought ---- True -- When there is hypocrisy in what you think , Say & do ---Its not what you call--WALK THE TALK !Good one !!
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