STORY OF BLIND MAN WITH LANTERN
We can’t make assumptions someone else is doing what we expect of them. There is the story about a man who was visiting his rabbi. When it came time for him to leave, he asked the rabbi if he could borrow a lantern — the kind with a candle — to carry on his way home. The rabbi said, of course, he would be pleased to lend the lantern, but asked, “Why do you need it, inasmuch as you are blind?” The man replied, “I need it so that others can see me!” The man went on his way carrying the lantern. But suddenly someone bumped into the man. He cried out, “Why did you bump into me, didn’t you see my lantern?” And the other person replied: “Don’t you know your light went out?”
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