THE PACK OF BISCUITS

One night there was a woman at the airport who had to wait for several hours before catching her next flight. While she waited she bought a book and a pack of biscuits to spend the time. She looked for a place to sit and waited. She was deep into her book, when suddenly she realized that there was a young man sitting next to her who was stretching his hand, with no concern whatsoever, and grabbing the pack of cookies lying between them. The young man opened the pack and ate one. Not wanting to make a fuss about it she decided to ignore him and also picked one. They went on picking the biscuits alternately as she watched the clock. Finally as her flight was called the shameless thief of biscuits took the last biscuit, broke it into two and offered her one. The woman started to get really angry at this point and thought, “If I wasn’t such a good and educated person, I would have given this daring man a black eye by now.” She grabbed her bags and went towards the boarding gate, refusing to look back to where that insolent thief was seated.

After boarding the plane and taking a seat, the woman looked for her book which was nearly finished by now. She was totally surprised to find her pack of biscuits act. If my biscuits are here, she thought feeling terribly ashamed, those others were his and he tried to share them with me. Too late to apologize to the young man, she realized with pain, that it was her who had been an insolent, uneducated  thief, and not him!!

SPIRITUAL COMMENTARY
How many times in our lives, had we known with certainty that something happened in a certain way, only to discover later that it wasn’t true?
How many times has lack of trust within us made us judge other people unfairly with our conceited ideas, often far away from reality!
That is why we have to think twice before we judge others. Let’s always give others the benefit of the doubt before we think badly of them!