A game of Perceptions!

Two older boys were playing with a younger one. As a part of the game, they used to put two coins - a 1$ coin and a 2 $ coin. The 2 $ coin was smaller in size than the 1 $ coin. Then they used to ask the younger one to choose between the two and to take the one he chose. Every time in course of game, the younger child used to select the bigger coin (1$) and the older ones would laugh at him for selecting the coin less in value than the other.

There was an old man,who was watching all these from a distance, one day called the younger child and told him that he should choose the smaller coin as it is worth of 2 $ while the bigger coin is of 1$ only. Next day again, the children played the same game again, but the younger child again chose the 1$ coin. The old man got astonished at this.

He again tried to make the younger child understand the same things again and asked him " Why you always use to choose the bigger coin?". The child smiled and replied " If I choose the smaller coin , the game will end that day itself. I want to continue the game, that's why I always choose the bigger coin. Let them laugh at my naivety, that way I am earning a 1$ coin everyday."


-- This is a nice story which tells us about how different people can have different perception about the same thing. While the older children thought that the younger child was picking up the bigger coin as he was not intelligent enough to select the smaller coin. But the younger child's perception was totally different. He played to win the game though in a different way.

In our day to day life also, we face different situations which may have varied impact on us. The way something impact us totally depends on how to perceive it. A out of box perception may lead us to gain even from worse situation. So what is needed is a positive attitude towards everything and a composed proactive reaction to it.