Sunday, February 21, 2010

DOUBT


A woman was gossiping to a friend about a man she hardly knew. That night she had a dream. A great hand appeared over her and pointed down on her. She was immediately seized with an overwhelmingly sense of guilt. The next day she went to confession. She went to the old priest and told him everything.

“Is gossiping a sin?” she asked the old man.
“Was that the hand of god almighty pointing the finger at me? Should I be asking for your absolution father? Tell me. Have I done something wrong?”.
“Yes!” the priest answered her.
“Yes! You ignorant woman! You’ve born false witness against your neighbor. You’ve played fast and loose with his reputation. You should be ashamed!”.

So the woman said she was sorry and asked for forgiveness.

“Not so fast!” said the priest.
“I want you to go home, take a pillow upon your roof. Cut it open with a knife. And return here to me”.

So the woman went home, took a pillow off her bed, a knife off the drawer, took the fire escape to the roof and stabbed the pillow. Then she went back to the old priest as instructed.

“Did you gut the pillow with a knife?” he says.
“Yes father”.
“And what was the result?”.
“Feathers” she said.
“Feathers?” he repeated.
“Feathers everywhere father”
“Now, I want you to go back and gather up every last feather that flew out in the wind”.
“Well…..it cant be done” she said. “I don’t know where they went. The wind took them all over”.
“And THAT….” said the priest “….is gossip!”



-The movie “Doubt”-

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gossip is when you eat the dead flesh of your brother.

mode said...

irony of gossip is everone knows its evil, but can't help doin it eh?

kaiza shozey said...

yea, everyone gossips at one level or the other. anyone who denies it is jes lying

PemPeNeyNo AnEsThEyShiYa said...

sure thing! nice movie dho asluves...

Anonymous said...

it isn't gossip. its just letting people know what you think about a subject. public speaking. sharing. yeah. and by sharing u understand more about the subject. don't you think? its all about sharing the pillow with every-possible-one.

[ dhondhooni ] said...

wow. i guess your writings are what i missed most during my days away from blogger.
i have always loved your articles and this is no exception.
PS. i'm back in blogger.

kaiza shozey said...

@dhondhooni: thanx. means :) i cant believe its gonna be a year since i last posted sumthin. hehehe.

kaiza shozey said...

*means alot :)