A professor for mathematics writes the following on the black board:
9x 1= 9
9x 2=18
9x 3=27
9x 4=36
9x 5=45
9x 6=54
9x 7=63
9x 8=72
9x 9=81
9×10=91
The students start laughing because the professor made a mistake: 9×10=91! Of course, the correct answer is 90. The students start laughing and make jokes about the error.
But the professor waits until all is quiet again and then he says:
This is how the world is viewing you. I made this mistake on purpose, just to show you, how the entire world reacts to a single error,
Nobody appreciated the fact that I was 9 times right, Nobody, even you all saw me doing it correctly.
But all made fun, laughed about me and even humiliated me. Only because I was one time wrong. This is life!
We have to start learning to value people for their success and what they do right or good. There are people who do a lot more right than wrong but in the end they are judged by a single mistake and not by all the things they did right.
This works for all of us. More praise and less criticism. More love and affection and less hate and cruelty. Let us learn to appreciate each other instead of destroying each other. See the positive! It is better this way!
Sven Franssen