India, June 2 -- It was early morning; the wind and the leaves played for a bit, and a few weak and dead leaves dropped to the ground.
When we sit to think about who lost, it would seem like it's the tree.
But then, on close observation, you'd see it's the wind.
The wind lost more than the tree in the game.
The tree just lost what wasn't needed, but the wind lost itself to make the tree lose those leaves. To make the environment conducive for the tree to lose, it took a lot of wind's energy.
Most often, our life moves in circles of loss and gain. One man's loss becomes another man's gain. What mostly matters to people is not the loss or gain but what was at stake when they pitched for that game. The one who loses actually does not lose...