Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Who is more deprived that the other; Men or Women.

      There was a town; where every Sunday people used to gather in the square in the afternoon and talked about the issues which would effect there social life. Often when they gathered to talk and debate over the selected issue, they would find a solution for it and thus were very satisfied in improving there daily social life through this custom.
      One day as the men and the women gathered in the square the sun shone for its last hour. The women sat on one side and all the men on the other side of the square. The chief of the village Stood and declared the day's topic."Lets argue and find who is the more deprived one; men or the women?" Hearing the topic, the whole crowd started murmuring and whispering among themselves. As if someone has let the reins of their unheard mourns. The chief allowed the women to start the discussion.
      "We women are the more deprived one. Our whole life is spent beside our men. Everyday from morning to the night we keep thinking about our men and his family. We do our best to make him comfortable in his house. And stand by them our whole life. Our acts are solely are to serve him. Still if we demand more from them then its seen as uncultured and out of customs. The love we receive in return is not enough. We are actually the deprived one. And the men owe us more than what they give us."
      The women paused, and then the chief asked the men to speak.
      "We men spend all our day working and earning livelihood. We do our best to raise our children. We do everything we can to keep our wives happy. And we never complain of anything. And it is our strength and manliness that keeps us strong enough to not to ask from our wives. But in fact we live for our women and try our best at work. We never care if its winter or summer, we work everyday throughout the year. But in fact in the shade of our strength we hide our deprived souls. We are devoted to our families and this devotion confronts us with deprivation. We are the deprived one but our manliness doesn't allow us to utter a word of destitution." the one of the men concluded.
      Then a women stood up to reply for the argument. And One after the other men and women stood up and presented their arguments in front of the other. Each group argued to express that they are more deprived than the other and that they deserve better. Arguments went on till the sun declined and the people went back to their homes without a conclusion.
      Next day the chief summoned them again and they talked about the same thing. But in vain, again they couldn't conclude anything and the gathering dismissed with no conclusion. Since the matter seemed to be really serious and the chief was hoping to get something out of this issue, so that he would declare some laws and customs in order to  harnessed the men and women mutual deprivation in a better way, he continued the same topic on the third day as well. But again they could get no conclusion out of it. The issue was becoming more and more complicated as they discussed it again and again each day.
      The next day when they had started the discussion a mendicant has come and sat in a corner away from the others. The discussion started and in the same way each group tried to prove itself more deprived than the others. And the mendicant watched them with some concern.
      When the same trend of arguments started the mendicant gestured the chief to call him. When the chief came near he told him to say to the crowd "the love is the act of selflessness; teach them about love.".
      The chief did as asked to watched the whole crowd go silent. And no one stood to argue anymore.

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