A brahmin left his tame mongoose to guard his baby son. Returning home, he saw the mongoose at the door with a blood-covered mouth and struck it dead in panic — only to find his son safe beside a dead cobra. The mongoose had protected the child.
A brahmin left his tame mongoose to guard his baby son. Returning home, he saw the mongoose at the door with a blood-covered mouth and struck it dead in panic — only to find his son safe beside a dead cobra. The mongoose had protected the child.
The cost of a decision made in unchecked panic is sometimes irreversible. Rage and fear are fast; investigation is slower. But it operates on reality rather than story. The brahmin's grief was a tax on his impulse.
Where have you made a fast, emotional judgment about a person or situation that you later discovered was built on an incomplete picture?
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