MAN'S
FOLLIES WORSE THAN CHILD
Think of a child playing. He sees a red hot coal lying before him. He thinks of it as a beautiful toy and goes to grab it. And he is burnt badly and cries in distress.
Later on when he is playing again, there is another red hot coal before him. But he shies away from it, knowing that it will burn him.
The fear of burning keeps him away.
Now let us look at a man. H
Think of a child playing. He sees a red hot coal lying before him. He thinks of it as a beautiful toy and goes to grab it. And he is burnt badly and cries in distress.
Later on when he is playing again, there is another red hot coal before him. But he shies away from it, knowing that it will burn him.
The fear of burning keeps him away.
Now let us look at a man. H
e finds
things in life that attract him. He goes to possess them. And he is badly hurt
by them. The hurt should have been enough to keep him away from such
temptations.
But no!
When another attractive temptation comes his way, he goes to possess it again -- and is hurt terribly again.
And this goes on happening all his life. He goes to possess those very things that hurt him again and again.
Whereas a child had enough sense to keep away from the red hot coal that had burnt him, man sadly does not have the sense to keep away from those very same temptations which burn him again and again in life.
But no!
When another attractive temptation comes his way, he goes to possess it again -- and is hurt terribly again.
And this goes on happening all his life. He goes to possess those very things that hurt him again and again.
Whereas a child had enough sense to keep away from the red hot coal that had burnt him, man sadly does not have the sense to keep away from those very same temptations which burn him again and again in life.
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