We usually ignore small things as if they possess no value at all and end up with either a minor loss or even to a greater extent.
Everyone must have heard about the ‘TITANIC ship’ which was not only a big ship carrying as many as 1500 travellers, lost their lives in the cold waters of the pacific, because they forgot to take the Binocular room key and with the result the ship wrecked with an ice-berg.
Well some incidences i would like to quote from my own life.
When we were at primary school,everyone knew when to Greet someone with a ‘Good morning’or Good afternoon, but Wishing ‘The Good Night’to anyone was not taught and i also kept quiet. Later,when i joined the Degree classes of the university, the classes were being held during the evening times (as we were in the employed category during the day). Once it so happened i met my Economics lecturer in the evening and greeted him with a “Good Night”, Whereupon, he corrrected me saying that the Greeting should have been a “Good evening ” and not a ‘ Good night, as we were not partimg for the day.
The second thing is: about how we ignore the details with regard to a language. As everyone is aware, English was, and now also, continues to be the First language in many schools. Due to laziness and procrastination I always felt and presumed that i knew the meanings of difficult words without bothering to refer the meaning of the words in the Oxford Dictionary. With the result I had an opportunity of adminstring a Training programme to some of the Engineering graduates and at the end of the programme,one of them queried me as to after the ‘Orientation’what they were supposed to do. i felt i was like Alice in Wonderland,because,i had no knowledge about the word ‘Orientation’.I was dumb-founded and somehow managed to wriggle out of the situation.
‘Floss’ we hadn’t heard of the term, or even if i had heard,would have gone on deaf ears,with the result of plaque built up, lost a dozen of some valuable teeth in the mouth.
Hence my suggestion to one and all is, to shed laziness and not to give room for procrastination and solve any such problems ‘then and there itself’.This way we can avoid from being a laughing stock amidst others.
It is usual notion that no body wants to tell ones weakness to others because ‘we always try to pretend what we are not’.But i have come out and quoted my life experiences,for the Benefit of others. I would like to bring a small poem to emphasise what i have said above:
For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe,the horse was lost,for want of a horse the rider was lost,for want of a rider,the battle was lost,for want of battle,the kingdom was lost, so all was lost for a ‘ horse shoe nail.’
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REVOLUTIONS ACROSS MINDS 