"PARADIGM SHIFT", are you experiencing it?

(Thanks to this story that was told to me by my great friend in Penang, Malaysia…years ago…).

Li was at Munich airport and waiting for the flight. He was so hungry so he decided to go to buy a packet of biscuits. Li then went to sit at a chair which was near to an old man.

After settling down, Li grabbed the packet of biscuit on the chair. As he was grabbing the packet, he saw that the old man stared at him. He started opening the packet, the old man stared even more at him.

Li felt so weird but he kept opening the pack and then started eating one piece at a time. The old man also took a biscuit after Li took one piece. Li then took one and the man took another one. The last one, he saw the man take it before him and then he broke it into 2 parts, gave Li one part. Li took it and ate and could not understand how it was possible that the old man took his biscuit and felt free to eat like that. Li thought what happened with this man, the same happened with people in this country.

So, after finished the biscuit (just a half!), he decided to go to buy another pack and felt a bit angry and weird about the man somehow. He put the new biscuits in the bag and tried to find a place to stay alone. He opened the bag and eventually saw another biscuit inside.

He figured out he had actually eaten the biscuit of the man, not his biscuit.

A paradigm shift happened to Li, the weird person/impolite person was not the old man but himself! How nice the old man was!

Have you ever felt a similar paradigm! Things are not that bad as you think. Things can be very beautiful if you see it from other side.

Without needing to experience an experience like Li in this story ^^, we can still experience life differently. When you change how you look at things, things change! If we are open, don't let our silent assumption take over, we can learn and see the beauty of things and others.