Pak Wan sat drinking coffee and talking with some of his old friends. One of the things they discussed was the difference between one person's sense of values and another's. After some minutes, one of Pak Wan's friends said to him, " Well, Pak Wan, your are a wise man, but you have said nothing on this subject yet. What do you consider to be the most valuable thing in the world?"
Pak Wan answered without hesitation, ' I consider advice the most valuable thing in the world.'
His friends thought about this for a few moments. and then one of them asked him, 'And what do you consider the most worthless thing in the world?'
Again Pak Wan replied without hesitating for a moment, 'I consider advice the most worthless thing in the world.'
'Really!' said one of his friends. 'You must be joking, Pak Wan! A minute ago you said that advice is the most valuable thing in the world, and now you said that it is the most worthless thing in the world! How can it be both the most valuable and the most worthless?'
'Well,' answered Pak Wan, 'if you think about the matter carefully, you will see that I am not joking, and that I am quite right. When you give somebody good advice, and he takes it, advice is the most valuable thing in the world. But when you give a person advice and he does not take it, it is the most worthless thing in the world.'
Sunday, May 23, 2010
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