38. Don't make a mess of life!
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The FBI had an opening for an assassin, so they started interviewing people. After all the background checks, interviews and tests were done, there were three finalists - two men and a woman.
For the final test, the FBI agent took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun, saying, 'We need to be sure that you will follow instructions, no matter what the circumstances. Inside this room, you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Kill her and come out.'
The man was shocked. He said, 'You can't be serious! I can't shoot my wife!' The agent said, 'Then you are not the right man for the job. Take your wife and go home.'
The second man was given the same task. He went inside, and all was quiet for five minutes. Then the man came out in tears and said to the agent, 'I cannot do it, I cannot kill!'
The agent said, 'You are not the
right man. Take your wife and go
back home.'
Finally it was the woman's turn.
She was given the same instruction
to kill her husband.
She took the gun and went into the
room.
Shots were heard one after another;
then they heard screaming, crashing,
banging on walls.
Then all was quiet.
The door opened slowly. There stood the woman, wiping the sweat from her brow. The agent asked, 'What happened?' She said, 'It turned out that this gun was loaded with blanks, so I had to beat him to death with the chair.'
Many a time, life gives you a gun filled with blanks, just to test you. But unfortunately, you make a mess of it. When the wave of greed takes over, when the wave of fear takes over, when the wave of pain takes over, you forget that Life need not be a struggle!