2006-10-08T08:02:00.000-07:00

lets change the path!

once a king had a great highway built for the members of his kingdom.after it was completed but before it was opened to the public,the king decided to have a contest.he invited as many as desired to participate.their challenge was to see who could travel the highway the best.
on the day of the contest people came and traveled the highway allday,but each one,when he arrived at the end,complained to the king that there was along pile of rocks and debris left on the road at one spot and this got their way and hindered their travel.at the end of the day,alone traveler crossed the finish line and walked over to the king.he was tired and dirty,he handed the king a bag of gold.he explained " I stopped along the way to clear apile rocks and debris that was blocking the road.this bag of gold was under it all.I want you to return it to its rightful owner".the king replied " you are the rightful owner".the travaler replied,"oh,no,this is not mine.I've never known such money"
"oh,yes" said the king "you've earned this gold,for you won my contest.He who travels the road best is he who makes the road smoother for those who will follow"
--unknown

the traveler in the fable above,recalled me "Gandhi";he was an ordinary boy from an ordinary family in india.he married and had children.he studied law at a college in England and he got a job in south africa.if you think about Gondhie's conditions,you will find that he could live like the other hendus on that time,but he wasn't an ordinary man,he was a different man with ideas,he was a delligent and brave man who fighted for the rights of indians and for independece's india from Britain.he wanted to change indians and finaly he achieved his goal.
once in 1893,when Gandhi had sat in the first class wagon on a train in south africa,a white man shouted at him "Get out of here,coloreds can't sit in first class" Gondhi didn't accept,the white man called the police,"Move to the third class or get off the train"the policeman said.
Gandhi became furious,but what could he do?he should obey the rules whether it was againts the right of humen or not.he could go to the 3rd class when the white man yelled at him and according to the fable he could behave like the ordinary travelers!
but he got off the train and thought over that event all the night,it wasn't fair,he couldn't accept it!so he decided to come up with his own ideas"changing the rules"which needed an iron will that Gandhi really had it!
if each of us find ourselves in the predicament like Gandhi was in,we might reacted differently!
I think Gandhi and the winner traveler did the same,they changed the path.
sometimes i ask myself that what kind of traveler am i in the life's path?am i such as those travalers who only criticize and complain or such as those who stop to clear the rocks?

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