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Wednesday, June 13

Don’t Count Your Chicken Before They Are Hatched



One can plan one’s life as carefully as possible to get the maximum results out of his efforts. One can dream of bigger and better things too, for, to excel is a basic human urge. However, to be overambitious or to plan beyond what reality permits may be foolhardy and counterproductive. A chicken owner may place 20 eggs for incubation, but only less than half may hatch into chicks, other eggs going rotten. If the former had expected all the eggs to hatch into chicks, he was in for disappointment. Real situations hardly match expectations. If men are aware of this reality of life, it will be good for their mental health. Genuine efforts are expected to yield reasonable results, but that may not match what one desired. Remember, one can be sure of an event only after it had happened, not before. Desires or imaginary things are not realities. So do not count your chickens even before they are hatched.

Tuesday, June 12

Don’t Cast Your Pearls before Swine



Swine is a voracious creature and is known to consume anything that comes to its notice including faecal matter and decaying vegetable matter. It is a predator. So, if you leave open any precious thing, including gems and pearls in the proximity of swine, it will simply consume that too, and later on emit it in some dirty place. It may be precious for you, not for the animal. The real reference here is to some persons who have no sense of propriety or any sense of discrimination between what is right and wrong or good and bad. They speak and behave indiscrete before anyone whether of high office or merely mean. They cannot keep any confidential matter or distinguish between what is personal and public. They are just predatory, take everything, listen to other voraciously and spread it as fast as they can. One should be very careful in dealing with, and saying anything in front of such persons. They could make it public in no time and spoil in advance whatever you have intended.