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Life Invaluable Or Ordinary ?
What was waiting for them...? Surely their death and even then the mentally imbalanced were dancing with joy! They mistook the flames of the violent raging fire as the sacred fire!
The workers were shouting from downstairs and trying to explain to them that if they did not come down, they would get trapped in the fire -- and burn themselves. But no one listened to them! Finally, the Trustees of the mental asylum arrived, they also tried to explain to the patients that if they wanted to save their lives, they needed to jump on the mattress spread on the ground, otherwise the fire will engulf them as there was no other escape route.
“Come! Jump down, save your lives!" .
“We aren't foolish to listen to you” , replied the patients. All the patients said collectively, “Till today, we have listened to you and obeyed you as you had locked us up. But today we are free with great difficulty we have got our freedom.now we are not fools to listen to you and jump...!"
How would they appear? Foolish or silly?
A few of them thought, “Even though they had locked us, they took care of us, they gave us food, and if today they are saying something, they might be right... It could be in our favor" . A few of them jumped as advised. They got bruised but their lives were saved!
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