An Engineer in a car manufacturing company designs a world class car. The owner is very impressed with the outcome and praised him a lot. While trying to bring out the car from the manufacturing area to the showroom, they realized that the car is 2 inches taller than the entrance. The Engineer felt very bad that he did not notice this fault before creating the car.
The owner was completely baffled as to how will he be able to take it outside of the manufacturing area. The painter said that they can bring out the car but there will be a few scratches on top of the car which could be touched upon later. The Engineer said that they can break the entrance, take the car out and later re-do it. The owner was not convinced with any of these unwise ideas and felt like it is a bad sign to break or scratch any part of his new car.
An ordinary watchman of the building was observing all the drama from the side and slowly approached the owner. He wanted to give an idea if they had no problem. They wondered what this guy would tell them that the experts could not give. The Engineer said to the two people, ‘Why not let us see what input he too can give us’. The watchman said: ‘The car is only a few inches taller than the entrance so, simply release the air in the Tyre, the height of the car will sink and you can easily take it out.’ Everyone clapped and said, ‘What a smart and intelligent guy is he. How could we not think like him?’
In life do not analyse the problems only from an expert point of view alone. There is always a layman’s outlook that gives an alternate solution at a given point of time. Why undervalue anyone whether big or small. Everyone is worth their while. Life issues are also the same. Many a times a friend’s entrance door falls short by a few inches, we feel taller. Release some Air(Ego), and adjust the height (Attitude).
Think simple, do simple and live simple because first and foremost we are happy souls. Share, care and respect one and all.
So true sometimes solution is in simple things around us. We just fail to notice as we keep finding solution in the complex things
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Yes absolutely true and agree totally with your comments. On many occasions we miss out on simple things. Thanks a lot for your feedback.
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My pleasure Kamal
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Welcome always Tanvir.
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This is very true, Kamal. I’ve witnessed this in my own life, whether it was an ordinary student in school, a simple layman in church, an average resident in the group home, etc. Yes, indeed, we should never “undervalue anyone whether big or small,” because, as you say, “everyone is worth their while.” Thank you for this well-written and enlightening article! Blessings to you!
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Thanks dear Jonathan and I totally agree with your words. Even I have witnessed many a times. These people can do much better than us why underestimate them. Everyone is one and there is no difference it is only in the way we see them. Blessings to you too dear.
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The hardest questions are solved by te simplest answers.
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Yes absolutely true and agree totally with your words dear friend. Thanks so much.
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Thank you my friend, and great post😊
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Welcome once again.
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You summed up everything in the last sentence 🙂
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Thanks dear Indira and yes so true that even these people play such a great role in our lives.
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Very true. Sometimes the genius lies in the simplest things. We can take benefit from everyone and everything, so we should never view another person as worthless.
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Yes absolutely true Yacoob and everyone has an inborn talent why must we not take help from those people too and undervalue their input. Thanks for your great comments.
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Beautiful reminders Kamal! May we learn to value all people as equally precious and beware our inflated egos. 🙂
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Yes absolutely true Brad may we all learn to value each and everyone, and not have inflated egos. This story was so apt. Thanks for the beautiful comment.
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Brad I hope u r receiving my comments on your posts. Pl do let me know
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Yes Kamal. blessings
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Great Brad.
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So easy we can make life only if we can let go of ego. What a wise advice it gives Kamal!
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Yes absolutely true Meenakshi and all these inflated egos let us not see the value of these kind of people when we r all humans and one. Thanks so much dear.
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Excellent point.
I remember a quote, “everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”
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Yes absolutely true and agree totally with your words Rupali. Everyone is the same so why not listen and take great advice from them too. Thanks so much.
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Great story dear Kamal! Sometimes the solution is so simple and right in front of our faces and we cannot see it with our complex ways of overthinking things. Even children can come up with amazingly simple solutions because they’r e more in tune with their inner compass and intuition. The ego always plays a game of feeling superior and “know it all” undermining other’s opinions. Great lesson dear friend! ❤
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Yes absolutely sometimes in life anyone can give you proper advice be it elders or children but we with our inflated egos shun them away as rubbish. This story was so apt with how we need to behave with each and every one as all of us are one. Thanks for the beautiful comment Amira.
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oh wow Kamal, this is an amazing example of how we should live, such wisdom … thanks for sharing 🙂
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Yes dear Kate and such an apt story on how we need to take advice from people who are not educated. Thanks so much.
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absolutely, often more so they think in another way not corrupted by the rigid education system 🙂
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Yes absolutely true and such guileless people too. All r one but we unnecessary differentiate everyone depending on our likes and dislikes
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sadly true …
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Yes
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Sage advice Kamal 🙏🏻🌈
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Thanks Karen
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That’s an absolutely brilliant message. Sometimes the solution is too simple, and yet we fail to see it. Thanks for sharing, Kamalji 😄
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Thanks dear Shweta for your great comments and yes so true and agree totally with your words. Solution is so simple but we make it complicated.
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Great post and reminder we were all put here for a reason no one is truly superior despite the position they may have been given …
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Yes absolutely true and agree totally with your words all of us r put in this world of illusion according to our impressions no one is small or big we judge them wrongly. Thanks dear so much for your feedback.
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So true! Thanks for sharing an eye-opening story.
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Welcome dear Megala always.
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I have always believed simplicity is after all very essential!
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Yes absolutely true and agree totally with your words Moushmi. Simplicity is the best policy. Thanks so much.
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Right great post deae
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Thanks so much dear friend.
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My pleasure
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Thanks
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What a terrific story Kamal. I would not have thought of this solution at all…
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Thanks dear Brigid and yes these stories are eye openers in themselves and speak the truth and so nice to be taking advice from people who are not very educated too. They too are of so much value to us.
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Loved the message from this story Kamal. Sometimes simplicity is the solution 👍
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Yes Radhika and that is the most important solution and it is so nice to take advice from a layman too. Thanks dear so much.
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This is a very clever post, Kamal. Experts can get so bogged down in the detail they can’t see the obvious.
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Yes absolutely true, Robbie and what a layman can do sometimes these intellectuals cannot. Thanks so much.
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Profound yet simple. Thank you. 🙂
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Thanks dear for your feedback and yes such profound and simple lines by this great Buddhist people.
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Loved your wise remarks in the end about think, live and be simple! Another AWESOME Share. Thank you. 🙂
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Yes why not in life we think simply and live simply. Welcome once more
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