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After that an elderly woman walks up to him and says,

”You are sitting in the market and not selling the

vegetables for free, are you? Take off the word sold”. The

vendor removed the word “sold” and was left with

“here”. A school boy passing by, teased the vegetable

seller saying, ”We know that you are sitting here and not

there. Rub off the word here”. Now the vendor was left

with an empty white board. Another person came up and

said, ”Only a fool will keep the board empty. Why don’t

you advertise for your vegetables?”

Everyone around us has an

opinion to make. Everybody
SNEHA SHAW, IX/X
around us has a suggestion to

offer. If we end up listening to

what others say, we may forget

to do what we were inspired to

do. With the voice of others’

suggestions we should not lose

our own voice. We should take

good advice from everyone but

should listen to what our

conscience says.