Ghandi understands...

ghandi story Mr. Soper (one of our teachers) shared with us...

a mother had a son, who had just recently been diagnosed with Diabetes. the problem was that she could not get him to stop eating sugar. no matter how hard she tried, no matter what she tried, it just didn't work. so, in desperation for her son's health, she took her son to ghandi to see if he could help. so he listened to the mom's concern and told them to come back in two weeks.

so two weeks later, they came back...and ghandi called the boy over and had a conversation with him. after that conversation, the boy stopped eating sugar - cold turkey. the mother later asked ghadi why he didn't just talk to the boy the first time they came. he replied, "i had to give up sugar to understand, first."


a story i was just listening to on tv...this guy (a family psychologist of some sort) had a troubled teen daughter, so all his training gave him the idea to sit her down in front of the whole family and have each person tell the girl how what she was doing was adversely affecting them.

she went out that night and did the same thing as always.

a while later, he heard a story about a remote village whose people had a way of approaching "delinquency". they would bring the offender in front of the whole village, have each person exasperate every positive thing they could about the offender. the process is not hurried or rushed and this could last for days.

this process did not have to happen very often.

by the way, the daughter of this guy now counsels troubled kids just like she used to be.