The Old Man's Shoes

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One day an old man will be traveling on a city bus. He want to visit his grandchildren that he loves. At the moment he set foot to the bus stairs, one of the shoes came off and fell into the street. But unfortunately, the door has been closed and the bus was speeding. This bus will only stop at the next stop which is quite far away.

Of course he can not levy shoes apart earlier but the old man calmly took off his onother shoe and threw it out the side window of the bus.

Feeling wonder, a young man who sat next to him asked, “excuse me Sir, why you threw your shoe?” The old man cools replied, “Ooo.. That’s for whoever who find my shoes had been able to use it”.

The young man was silent and brooding, learns to understand the meaning and nature of the sentence that he had just heard. The old man attitude in the story above is an example of a free and independent people. He has been able to let go of a thing or property. He was very different from most people who maintain something solely because it wanted to, or even because they do not want anyone else to have it.