Once upon a time, two thumbs decided to take on a jackfruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The jackfruit was a young chap – and very thick skinned, but unarmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thumbs on the other hand, had between themselves one knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The left thumb was weaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She took the knife first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She tried pulling it against the jackfruit’s tough skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The jackfruit laughed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She then changed tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She sawed through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The jackfruit started yielding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But soon, ouch, the knife cut Left thumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She retired to nurse her wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The right thumb, who was more powerful, laughed at the left thumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let me show you, how it is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He took the knife and pulled with all the effort he had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was tough – took every muscle he had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For a long time the jackfruit did not yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But finally it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And instead of just wounding the enemy – the right thumb spent the next one hour deskinning it completely – with brute force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘This, my lady, is how’ you should be doing battle.’ said the vain right thumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story ends a week later in a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can guess that it was the Left thumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No. In all the pulling of the Jackfruit battle, Right thumb had developed internal wounds – where pus had now formed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wonder what the moral of the story is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"