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He would roam around on his own. He had devised a very smart technique to remember his house. While climbing the stairs leading to his house, he would reach the fifth floor. He would see something and then climb down one flight of stairs and knock on the door exactly below the house above. Shishir asked him the reason for doing this and he replied: "I have memorized one symbol to remember our house. Our house is exactly below the door on which a flower is embossed. Hence when I see the symbol on the door on the floor above, I climb down."
Shishir's father Sumanbhai was stunned when he heard this reply. He touched his forehead and in a shivering tone remarked "This toddler is absolutely really strange. Instead of the fifth floor, if he had remembered the sign on the door of the third floor, he would not have to unnecessarily climb up and descend an additional floor."
Very poignant is this observation. When you keep in mind someone with higher standard of living than you, you always have to stretch a lot. You don't have to work very hard, if you keep in mind someone lower than you. Today's new generation especially, must learn from Sumanbhai's philosophical tenet.
The new generation lives keeping in mind the people with a standard higher than theirs. The cyclist compares himself with a person owning a bike. The bike owner compares himself with a person owning the car. A person staying in a chawl keeps in mind the person living in a flat and accordingly lives his life. A person living in a flat tries to match with a person living in a duplex flat. When there is a function in the house, the budget is not decided as per one's own capacity but everything is
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