Trifling Things
The great persons are always great in their own field but sometimes behave like a person below the normal level. A professor in Mathematics sometimes can not calculate
accurately the price of the vegetables worth some rupees in the market, or a writer sometimes fails to write an ordinary letter in a proper language. But such trifling things do not degrade them. The great scientist viz. Isac Newton made two holes - one big and one small for his favourite cat and kitten for coming and
going at any time freely in his laboratory, lacking a common sense that one big hole was enough for both of them to enter in the room and also go out of it. But this fact never discredited his worth in science.
The army commander of Peshva of Maratha Emperor Bapu Gokhale was a famous warrior.
He could defeat the British army in one of the battle fields because of his bravery, courage
and valour.
Once, while shaving he got a small cut by the razor on the chin. He could not bear the pains. He expressed the agony by painful gestures. For teasing him the barber said, “Sir, you are the Commander-in-Chief of Maratha Army. You fought many battles bravely. But still, I wonder, you are not able to endure a small cut. How could you sustain the attacks of swords in the battle field?” Saying this, he smiled sarcastically. Bapu kept quiet.
After finishing the hair-cut, he asked the barber to stand with a right foot forward; then placed his own foot upon barber’s foot. Thereafter he took a giant spear and suddenly pierced it through his own foot with a force. The spear-head pierced in the ground through Bapu’s and barber’s foot. The piercing was so painful that the barber started crying loudly. The pains were very severe and unbearable but Bapu was cool and quiet. He calmly said ‘‘This is the way we fight on the battle field and endure the wounds of swords.’’