Just Musings

The Noble Elephant An interesting story these days is doing the rounds and I am sure many of you have read it. The story of The Dirty Pig and The Clean Elephant. For those living under the rocks these past few days, let's retell the story.  An elephant took a bath in a river and was walking on the road. When it neared a bridge, it saw a pig, fully soaked in mud, coming from the opposite direction. The elephant quietly moved to one side, allowed the dirty pig to pass and then continued its onward journey. The unclean pig then spoke to its friends in arrogance, "See how big I am, even the elephant was afraid of me and moved to one side to let me pass."  On hearing this, some of the elephant's questioned their friend, the reason for its action. Was it out of fear? The elephant smiled and said, "I could have easily crushed the pig under my leg but I was clean and the pig was very dirty. By crushing it, my leg would have become dirty and I wanted to av...