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You cannot seek outside what you lost inside

You cannot seek outside what you lost inside

Keeping his balance with difficulty, a man apparently sozzled leant on a street lantern is walking around, with his eyes on the ground.

The policeman, who is watching him doing pirouettes from the opposite corner, is approaching and by holding him strongly and sympathetically, asks:

“What are you looking for?”

“The key … I lost the key to my house and I cannot find it … The ground is shaking back and forth all the time.”
“Yes, of course,” says the police officer smiling, “rocking back and forth like a drunk. Look … you’d better lean on the wall, otherwise you’ll fall and hurt yourself and we’ll both end up to the hospital … I will find the key for you … ”

For the next half hour the policeman looks thoroughly one by one all the paving slabs and investigates conscientiously around the road.
“Are you sure that you’ve lost it here?” , he asks.
“Oh, noooo”, says the drunk. “I lost it over there, two streets further down, while I was going to enter the house.”

“But then,” asks the authority , “why are you looking for it here since you lost it somewhere else?”
“But at the place where I lost it …” the drunk responds, “there is no light!”

And now that I told my joke, if I have the permission to add one more thing, I would explain to the youngsters that, just as this story shows:

You cannot seek outside what you lost inside.

Even if valuable items , sold with money, are under the spotlight, your own inner void will not be filled by any sparkling object.

 

 
Jorge Bucay
FROM IGNORANCE TO WISDOM
(a translation based on the text as presented in the Greek language)

 



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