Practise alone makes man, A Donkey

Four to five guys were chit chatting on various issues from call dates to latest gadgets, from philosophy to modern art in the cool night breeze of the august season. Our discussion mainly iterated over the need of practise than knowledge. i along with my friend argued that knowledge is only second to practise, as they say "Practise makes the man perfect" . My other friends disagreed with this view. i gave example of skilled labour, seniority in government services, etc to support my statement.
My friend widened my vision with following story.......................

There was a salt trader in a seashore village who used to sell salt in the nearby villages. every day he used to load two heavy bags of salt on his donkey and rode it to the other villages by crossing a river. One day the donkey, missed his balance while crossing river due to the load and fell in the river. When he stood up and crossed the river, he felt the burden to be lightened as the salt got dissolved in water. Then every time he crossed the river, he fell deliberately and reduced his load. Trader understood the trick of donkey and one day loaded its bags full of sponge. This time, donkey repeated its trick, but to his dismay found the loads burden more as sponge had sucked water and added more weight.

So, donkey lacked knowledge,his practise resulted in dangerous outcomes. Hence they say..........

Intelligent hard work never goes waste!

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kanagasabai S