"A powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which all the inhabitants drank whoevr drank that water would go mad.
The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, and which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried ad tired to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing serenity and public health. The policeman and the inspector, however, had also drunk the poisened water and they thought the king's decsions were absurd and resolved to take no notice of them.
When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decress, they became convinced that the King had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. They marched on the castle and called for his abdication.
In despair, the king prepared to stpe down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying 'let us go and drink from the communal well. Then, we will be the same as them'.
And that was what they did. The King and the Queen drank the water of madness and immeditealy began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once, now that the King was displaying such wisdom, why not allow him to continue ruling the country?
The country continued to live in peace, allthough its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbours. And the king was able to gover until the end of his days."
The person who's right is just the person who's strongest.
Whoever lives in their own world is considered to be mad or wiered. We restrain ourselves from doing many things as it is not considered to be good/ decent with respect to others or society. Do we live for others? If you do not listen to what others say you are labeled as snobbish. If you do something out of the routine norms set, you are labeled abnormal.
Our lives are governed more by Conformism.
It has been a natural evolution principle to accept what majority believes to be good. We do not use our knack to know if its good for us or not. We would never be independant. Without our knowledge our lives are guided by the principles and norms set by someone else.
No two minds think alike, but how is it that all of us should follow the same rules, or behave the same? Everyone would have their own perception of what life is, what is good and what is bad. As long as you opinion doesn't harm anyone I dont think there is a need to listen to what others say or what others label you as. If I say life is not all about working 8 hrs a day, spending rest of the time with your family/ for your family. If I say life is living to fulfill a passion/ dream which would never come true, but still living with a hope till the end, they laugh at me and say you are mad. If I say happiness is being a free bird without any responsibilities, without any relations/ bondings to worry/ care/ account for they say am an escapist.
One can never be opinionated in this world of madness. Eventually we end uo drinking the poisioned
water from the well so that you are the same as others.
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My condolences, but, alas, that's the case. Actually, I've heard this story in a different falvor, where a man comes to villages where everybody is blind. He is trying to tell them about the vision, and everybody tells him that he is mad - everybody, neighbor, head of the village, father of his bride. After all, they get him to the village doctor, and he tells that the guy may be ok, that's just these two strange things on his head that make him talk nonsense,... it should be really easy to remove them. The father of the bride with a relief says that he will permit the man to marry his daughter, if he will go through the surgery by the village doctor...
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