🚩Can we rise above conformity and regimentation🚩@ ✒GBG⚔
1. An army regiment had four soldiers guarding a concrete slab at all times. Different commanders came and went but the tradition stayed on. After hunderds of years, a new commander was assigned to the regiment, who had the brain to ask why things were done the way they were. When he asked why soldiers were guarding the slab, he was told, that It's our tradition.
2. The commander being bent upon finding out the reason for this practice, went to the archives to look for answers and came across a document that had instructions written by a retired commander, who had long since died.
3. The new commander learnt that decades ago, the regiment wanted to build a platform where some regimental events could be held. When the concrete slab was laid, some dogs walked over it before the slab could dry, so the commander ordered that four soldiers should guard the concrete slab for three weeks to allow it to dry.
4. The dog pugmarks were repaired, but the thinking commander was transferred, and a new Cdr was brought in, and the new Cdr found that the 'slab guarding routine' had continued for decades, thus he continued to enforce it without any questions, and since then, every other commander that came did the same.
5. Thus years later; soldiers continued guarding the concrete slab, as an assignment that was ordinarily designed to allow just the slab to dry.
6. I hope, you are not carrying forward obsolete beliefs, attitudes or traditions, or cultural practices, that were relevant to certain people at a certain time?
7. What is your opinion about yourself, or people of a different race, or new products ? Is it not possible that in following a religion or a lifestyle, we might just be guarding a concrete slab?
🚩तत्त सत्त श्री अकाल🚩
©✒ Guru Balwant Gurunay.⚔
1. An army regiment had four soldiers guarding a concrete slab at all times. Different commanders came and went but the tradition stayed on. After hunderds of years, a new commander was assigned to the regiment, who had the brain to ask why things were done the way they were. When he asked why soldiers were guarding the slab, he was told, that It's our tradition.
2. The commander being bent upon finding out the reason for this practice, went to the archives to look for answers and came across a document that had instructions written by a retired commander, who had long since died.
3. The new commander learnt that decades ago, the regiment wanted to build a platform where some regimental events could be held. When the concrete slab was laid, some dogs walked over it before the slab could dry, so the commander ordered that four soldiers should guard the concrete slab for three weeks to allow it to dry.
4. The dog pugmarks were repaired, but the thinking commander was transferred, and a new Cdr was brought in, and the new Cdr found that the 'slab guarding routine' had continued for decades, thus he continued to enforce it without any questions, and since then, every other commander that came did the same.
5. Thus years later; soldiers continued guarding the concrete slab, as an assignment that was ordinarily designed to allow just the slab to dry.
6. I hope, you are not carrying forward obsolete beliefs, attitudes or traditions, or cultural practices, that were relevant to certain people at a certain time?
7. What is your opinion about yourself, or people of a different race, or new products ? Is it not possible that in following a religion or a lifestyle, we might just be guarding a concrete slab?
🚩तत्त सत्त श्री अकाल🚩
©✒ Guru Balwant Gurunay.⚔
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