64. Intelligence from mistakes

A small story:

Once, two adventurous hunters decided to go hunting for rare animals in a dense forest in a remote area away from their homes. They chartered a plane to fly them into the forest where they captured and killed many animals.

A few days later, the pilot came back to pick up the hunters and the animals. He looked at all the animals and said, 'This plane will not be able to take the huge ox and both of the zebras. You will have to leave one of them behind.'

The hunters replied, 'But we took animals exactly like these in a plane the same size as this one, the last time we came here!'

The pilot was not sure but since the hunters insisted that they had taken all of the animals on the plane the previous time, he thought maybe the plane could handle the weight after all. So, the plane took off with all of them along with the ox and the two zebras.

The plane had hardly gained some height when it came crashing down after some distance. The hunters and pilot escaped unhurt. They stepped out of the plane.

One of the hunters rubbed his bruised forehead and asked the other, 'Where do you think we are?'

The other hunter looked around the surroundings and replied, 'I think we are a few feet from where we crashed last year.'

If you see your life, if you have the habit of keeping a diary, you will understand that you have been making the same types of mistakes for so many years! For the last twenty to thirty years you can see that you have been making the same type of mistakes. Maybe the scale is different, the place where you do it is different, or the time when you do it is different. But the mistakes will be almost the same! We need to have intelligence even to do new mistakes!

Another small story:

A man came to the doctor with burns on both his ears. The doctor inquired, 'How did you get burned on both your ears?'

The man replied, 'Actually, I had left the hot iron on when the phone rang. By mistake I picked up the iron instead of the phone.'

The doctor was surprised and asked, 'Oh! But what about the other ear? How did that get burned?'

The man replied angrily, 'The man called back!'

When you live intelligently, you will never do the same mistake again. Because when you are intelligent, you bring in awareness and learn the lesson the first time itself.