Allegory of the Cave

Once Upon a time their was an old lady who cried all the time. Her elder daughter was married to a noodle vendor while her younger daughter was wife of an umbrella merchant. On Sunny day's she worried for her younger daughter  "Oh No, the weather is so nice and sunny, no one will buy any umbrella's! What will happen if the shop is closed ?" . These worries mad her sad and she couldn't help herself and cried. When it used to rain she used to cry for her elder daughter "Oh no, My elder daughter is married to noodle vendor and without sun noodles cannot be dried and their will be no noodles to sell. What will she do?" As a result the old lady used be in sorrow everyday and out of grief used to cry all along. Her Neighbour's couldn't console her and jokingly called her "The Crying Lady" .  One day she met a monk. The monk was very curious to know the reason for her sorrow. The Old lady sluggishly and in a very dull tone explained her the p...

Once a Old man was walking on the beach. He saw a young lady was walking infront of him bending now and then. As soon as he got little close to her he saw, that the lady was picking up the starfish which has come ashore and leaving them back in water. The old man walked fast to catch upon the women. He asked "This beach streches for miles and their might be millions of starfish!! How will you effort make any difference ?". The Women smile's continuing her efforts countered "Well it would make a difference to this one?". To her reply old man got startled and started helping her out. In life also we often come to this Starish like situations where we say "How can my doing make any diiference?". We all talk and crticise about the corruption plagued in the country, but when it comes to elections, we say "How my giving one vote will render any difference?". We all crticise about the Littering but when walking on street's we say "How my no...