Wednesday 28 February 2024

Shared biscuits

She had to wait over three hours to get her next flight home, and as she sat in the airport lounge reading a book, she noticed a young man next to her. As she read her book, she grabbed a biscuit from the packet that was next to her. The other young man occasionally would help himself from the biscuits, and this annoyed the girl quite a bit, but said nothing. The boy was checking his cell-phone while he would grab a biscuit and the girl read from her book while also grabbing a biscuit periodically, until all the biscuits were gone. She did appear upset, but when the time arrived for her to board the plane, she left the young man without saying anything to him. The man followed her on the same plane but in a different seat. When she buckled herself in her seat and opened her bag to retrieve her book, she noticed that the packet of biscuits was unopened in her bag. She said to herself: ‘So if my biscuits are still here, the ones we shared at the airport lounge were not mine but they belonged to that young man.’ It was too late now to locate him and apologize to him. It often happens that we are so certain of ourselves, until we realize that things are not exactly the way we thought them to be initially. We think we know it all, but are far from the reality of things. We think we’re always right, but sometimes we may be wrong too. So let us think only of goodness when we’re in doubt, instead of judging a situation negatively.

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