The Mirror
A boy who happened to get stuck near a river bank was learning how to sail through the river as he wished to reach the other side. He was being taught by a boatman who lived nearby. He always told the boy to look onto a mirror and build his confidence. The boy obeyed so as he thought it was very effective. He stood before the mirror and asked the boy in the mirror who is the best boatman of all and the boy replied that it was ‘you’.
As the boatman saw his progress, one day he asked the boy to go on board into the river without him. The boy got puzzled.
With uncertainty of why the boatman said so and the fear of drowning, he got onto the boat. Before starting off he thought about the boy in the mirror and that he was the best boatman in the world.
The boatman was standing on the bank as if ready for something, and as the boy realized so, he lost balance and started to drown.
The boatman saved him and asked him whether he thought about the mirror or not. The boy replied affirmatively.
The boatman laughed and said you are an under confident person.
The boy became furious he said, “No you are wrong….. I became overconfident because of your nonsense mirror exercise that is what ruined all my efforts.”
The boatman laughed harder and explained………. “You always asked your mirror, “mirror mirror on the wall, who is the best of all”
YOU will be the flying answer but………….you forgot that it was a mirror who would say anything to stay alive, flatter you, console you, tell you that you are all good, you can do anything in life and so on and so forth because it was just like you a person who is under confident, sans self belief, coward and essentially full of uncertain emotions and goals. I wanted you to see this reflection of yours.
I wanted you to realize that it is the faith that comes from within and nobody can ever tell you that you are the best. You just know you are…….”
So, then the boy went up and broke the mirror.
The boy is ‘us’, the boatman, ‘GOD’, the river ‘life’ and the mirror ‘people’…….If you want to be the best in something have faith on yourself………
BY
BADRI NARAYAN, ECE
DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
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a really good one…
we need to keep faith in ourselves to cross this path of life..
at times we loose confidence but we should try to stand up again and face the challenges with smile..
Abhishek.Bindal
October 3, 2010 at 1:07 am
@abhishek exactly…….Rocky Balboa, a movie of stallone is based on this spirit……it ain’t about how hard you hit its about how hard you can get hit and keep movng forward how much you can take and keep moving forward……
thank you for the complement….
BADRI NARAYAN
October 3, 2010 at 2:05 am
what other people think about you is none of your business..
anand
October 5, 2010 at 12:24 am
Why can’t a mirror reflect real me, which says to me yes i can do it???
Why is it(mirror) considered as a peer which always make us land up in trouble….
faith comes from withing, but what if my within can be reflected on the mirror??????
Astha
October 5, 2010 at 12:38 am
@anand absolutely right…..its important what you think of yourself……
@astha your point is right to some extent……..but consider the fact that mirror always reflects opposite of whatever you are, that is why as the story implies the reflection of the real him is not visible to the boy….the real you or your confidence can never be defined by a mirror or the people around you…..that is why you have to search your faith from within and its true nature is to be understood not its opposite……..
believing on the reflection shown by the mirror lands one in trouble……thats why God wants us to know ourselves from our perspective and not by the people around(the mirror)………the biggest challenge for a person is doing so…….
its not ‘yes, i can do it’ while saying this we always have some worm crumbling inside saying that it might not happen…….its like you just know its going to happen you are going to do it anyway……can be said like ‘perfection of thought’……..just like in ‘The Matrix’…..nobody can tell you, you are the one, You just know it………
BADRI NARAYAN
October 5, 2010 at 2:14 am
nice work badri
Praneet
October 14, 2010 at 10:44 am
thanks…
Badri
October 14, 2010 at 6:13 pm
thank you…
Badri
October 14, 2010 at 6:14 pm