Robins & Cardinals. Tamils & Sinhalese

(This is a hard money lenders nyc true story from a journal, cited with a few adaptations)

Robins are known to be sworn enemies of the cardinals. Once a man found bird droppings on the side of his car near the side mirror. He washed the droppings. Only to fine the process repeated many days. On watching he found the culprit to be a lone cardinal. The bird was furiously attacking the image it saw on the side mirror of the vehicle while being perched on the car. Then the man saw what produced the excreta. The cardinal furiously pecked at the image it saw on the mirror, while covering itself in its own excreta. It assumed this image to be its number one enemy, the Robin.

By now the man was furious with the little bird which was furious with its own image assuming it to be its enemy kind.

On the first day after the discovery of the cardinal, the dung dropper, the man decided to frighten the bird away. Being 6 feet 4 inches and loud, he jumped towards the bird, screeching; slipped and sprained the ankle and dented the side of the car with his fall. Yet he was relieved that the bird was gone before it did the dung drop. His relief lasted exactly ten minutes. The bird returned, to find its hated enemy, the Robin – its own image in the mirror.

On the next day he planned to be more original. Plan B, he knew could not fail. He waited with a bucket of water, which when thrown would drop a wet 100 days loans helpless bird at its feet and then he would kill it triumphantly. (Animal lovers, hold on!) He was armed with the bucket of water. The bird was too quick. It fled hearing his foot fall. His next plan was to use the water horse on the bird – shoot water at it. In spite of the perils, the bird came and did its pecking at the “Robin” image, messed the car and the floor. By the time, the water hose was switched on, the bird hearing the sound fled. It perched itself on a near by tree and was smirkingly looking at the stupid Homo sapiens. (Mind you, this story is true).

By this time, the man was actually wishing the bird dead in many different ways. A cat could get it. Some expert bird catcher could get it. Why doesn’t a bigger bird kill it? His thoughts were aggravated because the man was going through a period of illness. His next day’s strategy was to keep the water hose running. As the bird sat on the car by the mirror, he directed the water jet at the bird. Yet the bird had flown away, long before the water ever got it. He thought of shooting the bird with his gun. But knew immediately the damage it would do to the car.

This was the end of winter. Soon after, with the first appearance of spring the bird disappeared. He was relieved. Only to find that with the next winter, the bird returned. However, by that time he had learnt the lesson that loans vancouver the cardinal was meant to teach, as intended by the Creator who created both of them. Do not harshly judge another’s error , you may have the same and you may be pecking at your own image.

What could the man have done to stop the bird from returning to mess up its car by taking cudgels with the “Robin” image falsely so thought?

He only had to cover the mirror with a cloth so that the cardinal would not imagine that its hated enemy, the Robin, is in the mirror.

Have you covered the source of irritation in a conflict or exposed combatants to their mutual hatred?

Is the Cardinal – Robin conflict like the ethnic conflict?

What are your other phantom battles and pains and furies? Do you mess yourself in your own excreta (bad conduct) while attacking the image of the “enemy”? Does any topic make you wax hot and irrational? Does the memory of some injustice cause you to loose the culture of your upbringing or the temperance of your religion.

What was the lesson the man learnt?

What I attack in other is present in me. When it is in me, I justify. I do not leave others the margin I leave for myself.

We criticise others about the ways we ourselves indulge. The cardinal felt good about itself other than that it thought the image in the mirror belonged to its enemy the Robin. Is there any overwhelming hatred that causes you to have skewed vies of the image you se. Do they haunt your memory?

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