THERE IS A TIME TO BE SILENT
“He who does not understand your silence, will, probably, not understand your words.” Elbert Hubbard I had first heard the story of the cheetah and the deer from my friend, Dr. Deepak. It was the certification day of our programme on Personality Development… and, it was the summer of 2006. Dr. Deepak, who, always, told a motivational story to our young ones in his parting message, had this story to tell… THE CHEETAH AND THE DEER O ne day, in a jungle, a cheetah was teaching his little son how to hunt. As the teaching was in progress, they smelt a prey at a distance… It was a deer. The cheetah softly said to his cub, “Son, a deer is coming our way… Watch me how I hunt, okay?” “Okay dad,” the little one said excitedly… They hid being a large bush and waited for the deer to cross their way… As the deer was about to cross their path, the cheetah, leapt from behind the bush and tried to grab the delicate deer… but, the deer escaped, and the chase bega...