POUND OF BUTTER

We learnt a very important lesson through a story we were told in school. A farmer sold a pound of butter to a baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound and he found that he was not. This angered him and he dragged the farmer to court.

The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure. The farmer replied, ‘I don't have a proper measure, but I do have a scale.’ The judge asked, ‘Then how do you weigh the butter?’ The farmer replied ‘long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker.’

We get back in life what we give to others. Whenever we take an action, we need to ask the pertinent question: Am I giving fair value for the wages or money I hope to make? Honesty and dishonesty become a habit. Some people practice dishonesty and can lie with a straight face. Others lie so much that they don't even know what the truth is anymore. But they deceive only themselves.

 Don’t ignore or don’t you forget

What we give is what we get!

- Pravin K. Sabnis

Goa, India.

PRAVIN SABNIS conducts UNLEARNING UNLIMITED workshops for corporate & other teams. Since 2004, he has been writing MONDAY MUSE. He can be contacted on unlearning.unlimited@gmail.com and 91-9422640141 or 91-8698672080