Critics

One nightfall a man travelling onn horseback towards the sea reached an inn by the roadside. He dismounted, and confident in man and night like all riders towards the sea, he tied his horse to a tree beside the door and entered into the inn. At midnight, when all were asleep, a thief came and stole the traveller's horse.

In the morning the man awoke, and discovered that his horse was stolen. And he grieved for his horse, and that a man had found it in his heart to steal.

Then his fellow−lodgers came and stood around him and began to talk. And the first man said, "How foolish of you to tie your horse outside the stable."

And the second said, "Still more foolish, without even hobbling the horse!"

And the third man said, "It is stupid at best to travel to the sea on horseback."

And the fourth said, "Only the indolent and the slow of foot own horses."

Then the traveller was much astonished.

At last he cried, "My friends, because my horse was stolen, you have hastened one and all to tell me my faults and my shortcomings. But strange, not one word of reproach have you uttered about the man who stole my horse."

- Kahlil Gibran, from The Forerunner

How true! When a sad thing happens, naturally the world asks to cope-up with it, for it has almost become a rule rather than an exception. Instead of solving the problem, the world expects for acceptance of it, and wants to come up with ways to come out of it!