Don't judge anyone first : Cookie story

 

One day, A man was waiting at an Airport for a long distance flight. His flight was delayed and so he had a little spare time. He saw a deal on some cookies because he thought it might be quite a long delay.  He took a seat near a man and started to read the magazine he also pick up earlier. He exchange a glance with the other man and then tried to avoid eye contact. As he went back to reading. While he was ingrossed with his magazine. He happened to see that the man sitting beside him boldly grabbed a cookies from the container. He initially ignored the incident to avoid the scene. He grabbed a cookies for himself and went back to his magazine. But the man seemed to enjoy the cookies so much, he took another one and started eating it too.This continued for a while and with each passing moment he began to get more and more irritated. Every time he took a cookie so did the other man. When the last cookie was left the other man nervously took that cookie and broke it in half. The other man offered one half to him and smiled. He took the cookie and could not believe the other man’s nerve. He was thinking in his head how ungrateful could that man be? The other man then left and took the container with him. 

He couldn’t believe what had just happened. Who does that? He was relieved when his flight was called and gathered his belongings. As he lifted his bag he saw that there was a full container of cookies right there! He was totally shocked. Totally surprised. It caught him off guard. He thought to himself. If my cookies are here then wait, those cookies were his! 

The other man had shared ‘his’ cookies whilst he was thinking that he was the one doing the sharing! Whilst he was being angry and irritated, the other man was being generous and kind. He felt so bad for what happened but he couldn’t find the other man anywhere and didn’t know how to apologise.Things are not always as they appear. Sometimes we make quick assumptions about people, circumstances and situations. We judge them, label them and put them into a box not recognising that there is a much bigger picture.